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1922North America - USA
 
Hollywood's first Technicolor film Toll of the Sea is released. 
1922Africa - Egypt
 

 
Harry Burton, 1922, Howard Carter (kneeling), an Egyptian workman, and Arthur Callender at doors of burial shrines in Pharao Tutankhamen's tomb., Photograph, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/112341
The tomb of King Tutankhamen is discovered by Howard Carter. 
1924Europe - France
 

 
Unidentified photographer, 1923, Portrait of André Breton at the carnival, Gelatin silver print, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/88263
André Breton (1896-1966) publishes the first Surrealist manifesto 
1924North America - USA
 
AT&T sends photographs over a wire. 
1925North America - USA
 
The Scopes Monkey Trial takes place in Tennessee. 
1925North America - USA
 
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
1925Europe - Great Britain
 
John Logie Baird transmits the first wireless photographic picture. 
1927North America - USA
 
The first talking picture The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson is released. 
1927Europe
 
First trans-Atlantic telephone call 
1928North America - USA
 
Mickey Mouse is shown for the first time by Walt Disney 
1928Europe - Spain
 
Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) and Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) makes Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), 
1929North America - USA
 
Museum of Modern Art opens in New York. 
1931Europe - Spain
 
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) paints The Persistence of Memory 
1932North America - USA
 
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) flies solo across the Atlantic. 
1934Europe - Germany
 

 
Leni Riefenstahl, 1935, Poster for the film "Triumph des Willens", Poster, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/48127
Nuremberg Nazi Party rally headed by Adolf Hitler. Leni Riefenstahl films the rally and makes it into the propaganda film Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) which comes out in 1935.
1937Europe - Spain
 

 
Dora Maar, 1937, May-June, Reportage sur l'évolution de «Guernica» (Photo Report of the Evolution of "Guernica"), Gelatin silver print, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, LL/60029
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) paints Guernica that commemorates the German bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War. 
1938North America - USA
 
The full length cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is shown. 
1938Europe - Spain
 
George Orwell publishes Homage to Catalonia 
1939North America - USA
 
The film The Wizard of Oz is released. 
1939North America - USA
 
John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath 
1939North America - USA
 
The film Gone with the Wind is released. 

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