Editing 1929 in film (section)

==Events==
The days of the [[silent film]] are numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized [[sound film|sound]] is on.
* February 1 – ''[[The Broadway Melody]]'' is released by [[MGM]] and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of ''Broadway Melody'' films that will run until [[1940 in film|1940]].
* February 18 – The first [[Academy Awards]], or Oscars, are announced for the year ended August 1, 1928.
* March 3 – [[William Fox (producer)|William Fox]] announces that he has taken control of [[Loews Inc.]], including its subsidiary [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], buying shares from [[Marcus Loew]]'s widow and sons and [[Nicholas Schenck]] for $50 million.  The acquisition eventually falls through.
* May 16 – The first Academy Awards are distributed at [[The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel]] in Los Angeles.
* May 26 – [[Fox Movietone News|Fox Grandeur News]] is shown in [[Fox Film]]'s new widescreen [[70 mm Grandeur film]] format
* July 13 – The first all color talkie (in [[Technicolor]]), ''[[On with the Show (1929 film)|On with the Show]]'', is released by [[Warner Bros.]] who lead the way in a new color revolution just as they had ushered in that of the talkies.
* July 17 – [[William Fox (producer)|William Fox]] is badly injured in a car accident which kills his chauffeur.
* August 3 – ''[[The Cock-Eyed World]]'' beats every known gross for any box office attraction throughout the world with a reported first week gross of $173,391 at the [[Roxy Theatre (New York City)]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/variety96-1929-08#page/n248/mode/1up|title=Fox's World High, $173,391|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 14, 1929|page=9|access-date=June 22, 2018}}</ref>
* August 20 – ''[[Hallelujah! (film)|Hallelujah!]]'' is the first Hollywood film to contain an entire black cast.
* August 22 – First in the [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]]' animated short [[Silly Symphony]] series, ''[[The Skeleton Dance]]'', is released.
* September – [[Paramount Pictures]] acquires 49% of [[CBS]].
* October 24 – [[Jean Harlow]] signs a five-year, $100 per week contract with [[Howard Hughes]]. 
* October 30 – Entertainment newspaper ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' report that [[Wall Street Lays An Egg]] leading to many prominent showman and film stars losing money on their investments.
* November –  [[Warner Bros.]] gain complete control of [[First National Pictures]] buying [[Fox Film]]'s 36% stake for $10 million<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Film Daily]]|date=November 4, 1929|page=1|url=https://archive.org/stream/filmdaily4950newy#page/1155/mode/1up|title=Fox Sells F.N. Holdings to Warners}}</ref>
* November 10 – Première of [[John Grierson]]'s [[documentary film]] ''[[Drifters (1929 film)|Drifters]]'' about [[North Sea]] [[herring]] [[fishermen]], made for the [[Empire Marketing Board]], effectively inaugurating the British [[Documentary Film Movement]]. (It debuts at the private Film Society in London on a double-bill with the U.K. première of [[Sergei Eisenstein|Eisenstein's]] ''[[The Battleship Potemkin]]''.)<ref>{{cite web|first=Jamie|last=Sexton|title=Drifters (1929)|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/439877/|work=screenonline|publisher=[[British Film Institute|BFI]]|access-date=2011-03-07}}</ref>
* November 15 – U.K. release of ''[[Atlantic (film)|Atlantic]]'', a film about the [[Sinking of the RMS Titanic|sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'']] which is one of the first British [[sound-on-film]] movies and, in its simultaneously-shot German-language version, the first to be released in Germany; also the first ''Titanic'' movie with sound.
* December – [[Anti-trust]] suits are filed against [[William Fox (producer)|William Fox]] and [[Warner Bros.]] by the [[US Department of Justice]] for Fox's acquisition of Loews and Warners' acquisition of the Stanley Corporation of America and First National.