This page indexes the individual year in film pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
- 1939 in film - Gone With the Wind premiers in Atlanta
- 1938 in film - Casting begins on The Wizard of Oz
- 1937 in film - Snow White, first feature-length animated movie
- 1936 in film - Thelma Todd's[?] final short subject "An All-American Toothache[?]" co-starring Patsy Kelly[?] and Mickey Daniels[?].
- 1935 in film - Laurel & Hardy's[?] last short subject, "Thicker than water[?]".
- 1934 in film - Samuel Goldwyn[?] purchases the film rights to The Wizard of Oz from Frank J. Baum[?] Also, the first Columbia Three Stooges short.
- 1933 in film - The film Ecstacy[?], which shows simulated sex, shocks audiences. Also, First Popeye cartoon, "Popeye the Sailor" debuts.
- 1932 in film - Shirley Temple's film career begins
- 1931 in film - Laurel & Hardy's[?] first feature, "Pardon Us[?]" is released by MGM.
- 1930 in film - The first Busby Berkely[?] musical film, "Whoopee[?]" starring Eddie Cantor, is released by Goldwyn in colour. Also, Max Fleischer's[?] animated star "Betty Boop" debuts.
- 1929 in film - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed. Also, Laurel & Hardy make their talkie debut in "Unaccustomed As we are[?]" co-starring Thelma Todd[?] at Hal Roach Studios. Rko-Radio[?] studio is established.
- 1928 in film - First talkie cartoon,"Dinner Time[?]" is produced by VanBuren Studios, the second talkie cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" by Walt Disney is released a month later.
- 1927 in film - Al Jolson movie The Jazz Singer popularizes sound motion pictures. First talkie newsreel,"Fox Movietone News[?]".
- 1926 in film - First Vitaphone feature, "Don Juan" starring John Barrymore, released by Warner Brothers. Posthumously released, "The Son Of the Shiek[?]" is Rudolph Valentino's[?] biggest grossing film.
- 1925 in film - Lon Chaney's[?] greatest film, "The Phantom Of The Opera[?]" is released by Universal with colour sequences. Eric VonStrohiem[?]'s magnum opus, "Greed"
- 1924 in film - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio established.
- 1923 in film - Harold Lloyd's[?] greatest movie "Safety Last" produced by Hal Roach, released by Pathe.
- 1922 in film - Nosferatu, first ever vampire film released. Also, "Our Gang" series begins at Hal Roach studios.
- 1921 in film -Laurel ad Hardy[?]'s first film together is "A Lucky Dog[?]".
- 1920 in filmBuster Keaton begins starring in shorts and his first feature, "The Saphead[?]" at Metro.Von Strohiem's[?] "The Devil's Passkey[?]" stars Mae Busch[?] at Goldwyn.
- 1919 in film - United Artisted founded by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin[?] and D.W.Griffith[?].
- 1918 in film - "My Four Years in Germany[?]" is the first Warner Brothers production. First National releases the first Tarzan film, starring Elmo Lincoln[?].
- 1917 in film - Technicolor is introduced
- 1916 in film - D.W.Griffith[?]'s second monumental production, "Intolerence[?]" released.
- 1915 in film - The Country Girl, starring Florence LaBadie[?]. The first great epic of American film, "The Birth Of A Nation[?]" is produced by David Wark Griffith.
- 1914 in film - "Tillie's Punctured Romance" produced by Mack Sennett, stars Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, and Mabel Normand[?].
- 1913 in film - The first Charlie Chaplin movies are made
- 1912 in film - From the Manger To the Cross, directed by Sidney Olcott
- 1911 in film -
- 1910 in film - First filmed "Frankenstein" by Edison studios.