The Vintage Years

S1 E3: 1939 was a pivotal year for Hollywood as an industry. As the trajectory of cinema and its grasp expanded and segued from phase to phase, 1939 served a visible barrier year, with the industry being decidedly defined by its statures before and after such a transitional year. With the studio system in a complicated state of change and review, 1939 was a stretch where the future of the industry was very much in directional limbo, and where studio releases were noticeably in consistently good company in a year of legendary releases that would all go on to be influential.