1931

May 26: Maria Gambarelli is the first dancer to go before a television camera in America .

1932
A spectator films Olga Spessivtzeva in a rehearsal of Giselle, in London theater .
1933
Busby Berkeley directs his first “backstage” musicals , Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade and 42 nd Street, in which the dance movement is created by the camera and the editing.
Fred Astaire makes his first film Dancing Lady with Joan Crawford. His fabled partnership with Ginger Rogers begins.
1934
The Merry Widow, one of several operetta films choreographed by Albertina Rasch, is directed by Ernst Lubitsch using an unusual mobile camera floating above the waltzing dancers.
Air for the G String is filmed with Doris Humphrey and her ensemble.
 
1935
Max Reinhardt directs a Midsummer Night's Dream, containing a ballet choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska.
Kinetic Molpai choreographed by Ted Shawn is filmed at Jacob's Pillow.
1936
Agnes de Mille choreographs dances for Irving Thalberg's Romeo and Juliet.
1937
J. Benoit-Levy directs La Mot du Cygne, starring Yvette Chauvivre and Mia Slavenska, the first feature film with the ballet world as its subject matter.
 
1939

Cinerama is introduced at the 1939 New York World's Fair. It is improved in 1952 with a three-lens system and resolved into the single-lens 70mm process.

The artistic use of color begins and becomes the rule in Hollywood by the 1950s .
National Film Board of Canada is established.
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