Best of the 1930s · 1001 canon

Sound, and the studio system

The 1930s are when "going to the movies" became the central American leisure activity. The Hollywood studio system produced screwball comedy, gangster pictures, and Universal monsters at industrial scale. Outside the U.S., Renoir was reinventing what the camera could do.

80 films from this decade are in the canon. Tick what you've seen — your progress saves on this device.