Events
- Paramount Pictures releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring a ghost named Casper.
- With Rossellini's Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins.
- October 5 - A strike between the set decorators' union and the studios boils over and became what is now considered Hollywood Black Friday.
- December 28 - Spellbound is released.
- Son of Lassie, the 2nd Lassie film, becomes the first movie ever to be filmed using the Technicolor Monobook method, where a single magazine of film was used to record all of the primary colors. Prior to this method, the most popular recording method was 3-Strip Technicolor, which simultaneously used 3 individual film magazines to record the primary colors.
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