Film (Napoleon's World)

The following is a list of films from different decades, starting in the 1890's with the Einschraft brothers' perfection of the moving film image. Due to the dominance of Hollywood

1930's
The 1930's are referred to often as the Golden Age of Hollywood - the first "talkies" (non-silent films) were released starting in 1929 and as a result the Thirties, alongside the booming economy nationwide, led to the exponential growth of Hollywood both as a center of entertainment, an economic driver in Los Angeles and the state of California, and as a source of crime, corruption and greed as financial power in the region gradually began to rest with the film studios and alliances were built with organized crime figures in LA.

1940's
The 1940's were the Age of Vision - the Big Four (United, Peterson-Maasch-Rigors/PMR, Pacific Print and Dooley Brothers) Studios produced more big-budget, mass-entertainment films that experimented with full color, a new epic scope, and the Walt Disney Animation Studio produced unheard-of big-budget animated feature films based on classic fairytales - for example, Walt Disney's Little Red Riding Hood was the highest grossing film of 1945. The end of the decade saw the emergence of film stars such as Jack Kennedy, Peter O'Neill, Grant Kerouac, and Don Sorenson, who would become known as "America's Favorite Gentlemen" during the 1950's.

1950's
After the studio power grew out of control in the 1940's and Hollywood became a political and criminal battlefield much like any monopolized institution, the 1950's saw the much-maligned Film and Motion Picture Regulation Act by the State of California in 1953. It resulted in several smaller studios folding and the Big Four actually only growing in power. This Age of Regulation was dominated by America's Favorite Gentlemen, whose films, combined throughout the decade, grossed the equivalent of the United States' GDP during some years. The war movie and the Western became staples of the film genre during this decade, especially starting in 1954 with Grant Kerouac's Scoundrels at Sea and Don Sorenson's ''Cheyenne. ''The French film industry also boomed during this decade, due to an easing of restrictions on creative artists by the Sebastienite regiem.

1960's
The 1960's are known as the Dark Age of Hollywood - the overregulation of the film industry was driving work out of California to places like New York, Texas, Cuba and the Pacific Northwest. Jack Kennedy's seminal work, Oahu, became the highest-grossing film of all time in 1962 and swept the Academy Awards, holding the record for ticket sales until 1978's Star Wars. Besides Oahu, however, the 60's were considered a bleak age in Hollywood and several studios grew desperate towards the end of the decade. The French and Japanese film industries continued to grow in the wake of Hollywood's decline, and these foreign films were often imported and either dubbed or subtitled in the United States.

1970's
When California Robert Redford deregulated the film industry in 1972, within years Hollywood was booming again in the Hollywood Renaissance - the 1970's produced more legendary films than any other decade. France and Japan benefitted from this as well, and the English film industry began to develop due to the contributions made in studio infrastructure by American-based Crown Pictures' Martin Jones series, which began production in the mid-1970's. Dirty Boys, Star Wars and Thieves are all iconic films born out of the Hollywood Renaissance that are still popular culture favorites today.