What was it like to live in 1940?
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- February 7 – Walt Disney‘s animated film Pinocchio is released.
- February 10 – Tom and Jerry make their debut in the animated cartoon Puss Gets the Boot.
- May 17 – My Favorite Wife is released.
- May – A reproduction of “America’s First Movie Studio”, Thomas Edison‘s Black Maria, is constructed.
- July 27 – Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare.
- October 15 – Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, a satirical comedy starring him, is released.
- November 13 – World premiere of Walt Disney’s Fantasia, the first film to be released in a multi-channel sound format (see Fantasound). The film also marked the first use of the click track while recording the soundtrack, overdubbing of orchestral parts, simultaneous multitrack recording and is cited as a key chapter in the conception and development of the multi-channel surround system.
- December 5 – Release of The Thief of Bagdad, pioneering the use of chroma key effects.
- In the United Kingdom, the Crown Film Unit supersedes the GPO Film Unit in the production of documentary films.
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And Ed Wynn ‘The Perfect Fool’ was on Broadway with his show “Boys and Girls Together”
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