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. www.nfb.ca |