The idea of transmitting a color television signal with distinct luma and chrominance components originated with Georges Valensi, who patented the idea in 1938.

* 1861 – Georges Méliès, French filmmaker and innovator ( d. 1938 )

Georges Bonnet, the French Foreign Minister 1938 – 39. But Ribbentrop emerged as one of the Nazi Party's leading hardliners.

The first edition ( 1938 ) was edited by Prosper Montagné, with prefaces by Georges Auguste Escoffier and Philéas Gilbert.

** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".

* December 8 – Georges Méliès, French film director ( d. 1938 )

* French — Alleaume, Ludovic: Poor Pierrot ( 1915 ); Derain, André: Pierrot ( 1923 – 1924 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( c. 1924 ); Gabain, Ethel: Many works, including Pierrot ( 1916 ), Pierrot's Love-letter ( 1917 ), and Unfaithful Pierrot ( 1919 ); La Fresnaye, Roger de: Study for " Pierrot " ( 1921 ); La Touche, Gaston de: Pierrot's Greeting ( n. d .); Laurens, Henri: Pierrot ( c. 1922 ); Matisse, Henri: The Burial of Pierrot ( 1943 ); Mossa, Gustav Adolf: Pierrot and the Chimera ( 1906 ), Pierrot Takes His Leave ( 1906 ), Pierrot and His Doll ( 1907 ); Picabia, Francis: Pierrot ( early 1930s ); Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: White Pierrot ( 1901 / 1902 ); Rouault, Georges: Many works, including White Pierrot ( 1911 ), Pierrot ( 1920 ), Pierrot ( 1937 – 1938 ), Pierrot ( or Pierrette ) ( 1939 ), Aristocratic Pierrot ( 1942 ), The Wise Pierrot ( 1943 ), Blue Pierrots with Bouquet ( c. 1946 ).

In 1938, Faure and Mochet's son, Georges, began adding fairings to the Velocar in hopes of bettering the world record of one hour for a bicycle with aerodynamic components.

* The French film director Georges Méliès ( 1861 – 1938 ) directed the 1899 film Le Miroir de Cagliostro.

RCA worked along different lines entirely, using the luminance-chrominance system first introduced by Georges Valensi in 1938.

According to Michel Surya, the philosopher Georges Bataille threw pages of Blake's book into the casket of his friend and lover Colette Peignot on her death in 1938.

Langlois was co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française with Georges Franju and Jean Mitry and also co-founder of the International Federation of Film Archives ( FIAF ) in 1938.

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

Georges Valensi ( born May 1, 1908 ) was a French telecommunications engineer who, in 1938, invented and patented a method of transmitting color images so that they could be received on both color and black & white television sets.

* Georges Janssen ( 1938 – 1941 )

Basile Georges Casmoussa ( born 25 October 1938 ) is the Syrian Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Syrian Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul, Iraq.

Tamara ( b. 1913 ) married ( 1938 ) the Georgian émigré Georges Odichelidze ( 1899 – 1970 ), French officer of World War II.

The station was added to the line in 1938, well after the line from Belmore to Bankstown opened in 1909, to interchange with the strategic King Georges Road.

The stories reflected an urban ennui and disillusion felt by those leading lives fueled by intense emotions and hedonistic self-indulgence. Georges Lemaître wrote in 1938: “ Beyond any doubt Morand is the most typical representative and interpreter of French literature today … His defects and merits, are they not the defects and merits of the world today …” Supporters and enthusiasts of Morand, Cocteau and André Breton appreciated his “ spiteful humour and surreal urban poetry, and aphoristic prose .” French critics praised his descriptive facility with words, leading them to categorize him as a “ modernist ,” and “ imagist .”

1930 and 1932 winner André Leducq had retired in 1938, as had 1931 and 1934 winner Antonin Magne ; 1933 winner Georges Speicher did not ride, and 1937 winner Roger Lapébie was injured.

She was at St Georges School Harpenden in England til July 1937, she gained her school certificate and got the form prize in July 1938 before leaving to study in America.

In 1907, a French chemist Georges Urbain ( 1872 – 1938 ) reported that ytterbium was a mixture of two new elements and not a single element.

The color TV pioneer John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first RGB color transmission in 1928, and also the world's first color broadcast in 1938, in London.

R. Hilsch and R. W. Pohl in 1938 demonstrated a solid-state amplifier using a structure resembling the control grid of a vacuum tube ; although the device displayed power gain, it had a cut-off frequency of one cycle per second, too low for any practical applications, but an effective application of the available theory.

In June 1938, Typex Mark II was demonstrated to the cipher-machine committee, who approved an order of 350 machines.

In July 1938 the shadow mask color television was patented by Werner Flechsig ( 1900 – 1970 ) in Germany, and was demonstrated at the International radio exhibition Berlin in 1939.

Hanna Reitsch demonstrated the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter ( as opposed to autogyro ), in Berlin in 1938.

German Anschluss of Austria in 1938 and the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia demonstrated the impossibility of establishing a collective security system in Europe, a policy advocated by the Soviet ministry of foreign affairs Maxim Litvinov.

Despite her short career in parliament, she demonstrated that women could successfully seek election, and it was not long before a second woman ( Catherine Stewart in 1938, elected for Wellington West ) entered parliament.

The first season also touches upon a government conspiracy as demonstrated in the discovery of a whitewash of the alien reconnaissance mission that took place in Grover's Mill in 1938 that was forgotten because of the infamous radio broadcast made by Orson Welles.

The dam's construction was authorized in 1936 and the flood of 1938 demonstrated its necessity.

Friedrich Wilhelm " Fritz " Strassmann (; February 22, 1902-April 22, 1980 ) was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in 1938, identified barium in the residue after bombarding uranium with neutrons, results which, when confirmed, demonstrated the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission.

However, in general this hypothesis is considered to attribute too much weight to the Anatolian evidence and it has been demonstrated already in 1938 that the Anatolian group should be placed on the same level as other Indo-European subgroups and not as equal with Indo-European.

In 1938, his data and work demonstrated the negative health effects of smoking tobacco.

Not that he dispensed with home-grown talent, but his penchant for attacking play is demonstrated by the fact that as well as Schiavio, Pozzo was successful in converting Giuseppe Meazza, who was captain in 1938, from a striker into an inside forward ; indeed Pozzo ’ s reign is linked closely to the success of his strikers.

Calculations of the lower excited levels of benzene by Sklar in 1937 ( with the valence bond method ) and later in 1938 by Goeppert-Mayer and Sklar ( with the molecular orbital method ) demonstrated a correspondence between the theoretical predictions and experimental results of the benzene spectrum.

Eventually, Fresco demonstrated such designs in 1938.

In fact, during the last 100 years, Pleione has demonstrated notable phase changes — as a Be phase until 1903, a B phase ( 1905 – 1936 ), a B-shell phase ( 1938 – 1954 ), and another Be phase ( 1955 – 1972 ).

* Bernard Madoff ( born 1938 ), American stock broker who engineered a $ 65 billion Ponzi scheme

He instituted a 42 hour week and 3 weeks yearly vacation for all in 1937, and a free pension and health insurance scheme for all from 1938.

Built between 1938 and 1939, RAF West Raynham was an expansion scheme airfield.

African Air Transport ( AAT ) opened at Maitland in 1938, and was involved in training pilots for the Union Air Training Group's pupil pilot training scheme.

The scheme that Dr Bradfield proposed in 1938 requires large pipes, tunnels, pumps and dams.

It was expanded in 1908 but a major rebuilding scheme that started in 1938 was delayed by the Second World War and was not completed until 1962.

This scheme was to occupy an area to the north of Nitshill Road covered by Leggatston Farm, part of the original Darnley estate taken within the City of Glasgow boundaries in 1938.

The dual denomination scheme broke down when the value of the French franc declined, and for the next stamp issue, in 1938, the two administrations had simplified matters by using the same currency of " gold francs ".