Modern Era · North America · Culture
1939
The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind
1939
In a single year, Hollywood released both The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind, each a spectacle of Technicolor and ambition. MGM's musical fantasy and Selznick's Civil War epic defined what Hollywood's Golden Age could do when money, craft, and studio discipline all pointed the same direction. American film had its landmark year.
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Also in 1939 (4 other events on record)
- Germany invades Poland · Europe · War
- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact shocks the world · Europe · Politics
- Einstein warns Roosevelt about atom bomb · North America · Science
- Spanish Civil War ends · Europe · War
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.