1940s

This group collects the Hollywood and English-Language Studio Cinema subcategory's members whose own recorded release year, or the first year stated in its own description when no release-year fact is recorded, falls between 1940 and 1949: wartime and immediate postwar studio cinema including Casablanca, Citizen Kane and the emergence of film noir. It is kept apart from this subcategory's other nine decade groups purely by release decade, the report's own proposed uncontested axis for this subcategory.