One result was the creation by the American company MGM of an English studio MGM-British in Hertfordshire, which produced some very successful films, including A Yank at Oxford ( 1938 ) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1939 ), before World War II intervened.

* Two Max Fleischer features, Gulliver's Travels ( 1939 ) and Hoppity Goes to Town ( 1941 ) were previously sold to NTA along with a few independent productions released by Paramount like One Third of a Nation ( 1939 ), as well as some features acquired by the studio after their theatrical release, including The Bells of St. Mary's ( 1945 ) and Good Sam ( 1947 ) ( both originally distributed by RKO Radio Pictures ).

Hitchcock explained the term " MacGuffin " in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University: " have a name in the studio, and we call it the ' MacGuffin '.

In 1939, Colvig had a fallout with Disney and left the studio, leaving Goofy without a voice.

John L. Sullivan ( Joel McCrea ), a popular young Hollywood director fresh from a string of very profitable, but shallow comedies ( e. g. Ants in Your Plants of 1939 ), tells his studio boss, Mr. Lebrand ( Robert Warwick ), that he is dissatisfied and wants his next project to be a serious exploration of the plight of the downtrodden, to be based on the socially-conscious novel O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Feeling his designs were too abstract for a mass audience, Fishinger left the studio in apparent despair, before the segment was completed, in October 1939.

When the finished recordings arrived at the studio, a meeting was held on July 14, 1939 to allow the artists working on each segment to listen to Stokowski's arrangements, and suggest alterations in the sound to work more effectively with their designs.

No studio or OB programmes from 1936 – 1939 or 1946-1947 have survived because there was no means of preserving them.

He settled in New York in 1937, and shortly after the first From Spirituals to Swing concert, recorded pianists Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis in 1939 during a one-day session in a rented studio.

However, Disney ceased production of Silly Symphonies in 1939, as the studio began to focus on producing feature films and new series shorts.

In 1939, along with her husband, Edwin Scheier, they both set up their first studio in Glade Spring.

Walt Disney and his staff began the move from the old studio at Hyperion Avenue in Silver Lake on December 24, 1939.

The acoustics of the specially built studio were very dry ; some remodeling in 1939 added a bit more reverberation.

For the same studio he played a supporting role in his first Technicolor film, Jesse James ( 1939 ), a lavish highly romanticized account of the famous outlaw ( Tyrone Power ) and his brother Frank ( Henry Fonda ).

Bolger's M-G-M contract stipulated that he would play any part the studio chose ; however, he was unhappy when he was originally cast as the Tin Woodman in the studio's 1939 feature film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.

The progressive band Electric Light Orchestra used a frame from the 1939 film on the cover of their fourth studio album, released in 1974, Eldorado.

Animator Chuck Jones created Sniffles as a potential new star for the studio in 1939.

The last one was in 1939, when they were released from their contracts due to more antics on the studio lot.

Silvers next worked in short films for the Vitaphone studio, such as Ups and Downs ( 1937 ), and on Broadway, where he made his debut in the short-lived show Yokel Boy in 1939.

In 1939, Szpilman was in the middle of broadcasting when German fire was opened on the studio and he was forced to stop playing.

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A studio recording of the song, not from the actual film soundtrack, was recorded and released as a single by Decca Records in September 1939.

Warner Bros. purchased the studio in the 1920s, using it for short subjects, and moved the studio operation to Hollywood in 1939.

The initial funds were released in September, and the 11-tube prototype was first demonstrated in October, 1939.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

Voroshilov initially argued that thousands of Polish army officers captured in September 1939 should be released but later signed the order for their execution.

In 1939 he was arrested on a trumped-up charge of being involved in a plot against Hitler ( see Georg Elser ), but was later released.

Further cooperation between German and Soviets took the form of an exchange of Polish POWs: following order by Lavrentiy Beria to the NKVD of October 3, 1939, Polish prisoners detained in soviet camps were traded against POWs released by the Germans.

In 1939, a popular film called Stanley and Livingstone was released, with Spencer Tracy as Stanley and Cedric Hardwicke as Livingstone.

When it was first released, the film premiered in Constitution Hall in Washington, D. C., on October 17, 1939, sponsored by the National Press Club, an event to which 4, 000 guests were invited, including 45 senators.

Released in 1939 in the United States, the movie was released during World War II in Europe, where it became a great success.

By the late 1930s the Western film was widely regarded as a ' pulp ' genre in Hollywood, but its popularity was dramatically revived in 1939 by the release of John Ford's landmark Western adventure Stagecoach, which became one of the biggest hits of the year released though United Artists, and made John Wayne a mainstream screen star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns.

Goofy next starred at his first solo cartoon Goofy and Wilbur directed by Dick Huemer, first released on March 17, 1939.

Aside from the title, the film bears no resemblance to a Bob Hope movie of the same name released in 1939.

A number of the bars developed in that era still exist in relatively unchanged form ( except for miniature versions such as Hershey's Miniatures chocolate bars released in 1939 ).

* It was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 1939 and directed by John Ford.

In 1940, American Decca released the first album of songs from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

Here the Fleischers produced Gulliver's Travels which was released in 1939.

The film version, released in 1939, starred Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and was directed by Busby Berkeley.

Sirikkathe, a Tamil film released in 1939, was the first anthology film in India.

After the Apostolic Vicars had received guarantees from the Manchukuo Government that confirmed the mere " civil " characteristics of the so called " chinese rites ", the Holy See released, on Dec. 8th 1939, a new decree, known as " Plane Compertum ", stating that:

The last Betty Boop cartoons were released in 1939, and a few made attempts to bring Betty into the swing era.

In 1939, Warner Bros. released their animated take on Seabiscuit's underdog story with their Porky Pig cartoon, Porky and Teabiscuit.