1930s
1931
The Nicolau brothers patent the first toy film projector in Barcelona: the Cine NIC.
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1933The appearance of the first drive-in theatres in the United States.
1935Louis Lumière presents a prototype for screening films in 3D to the French Academy of Science.
Becky Sharp, by Rouben Mamoulian, the first feature-length film shot entirely using the three-strip Technicolor process.
1937Appearance of the Cinérama, a multi-projection process on a curved panoramic screen with three synchronized projectors.
1938 1939The first screening of stereoscopic images using polarized filters.