1922 | North America - USA
| Hollywood's first Technicolor film Toll of the Sea is released. |
1922 | Africa - 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. |
1924 | Europe - 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 |
1924 | North America - USA
| AT&T sends photographs over a wire. |
1925 | North America - USA
| The Scopes Monkey Trial takes place in Tennessee. |
1925 | North America - USA
| F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. |
1925 | Europe - Great Britain
| John Logie Baird transmits the first wireless photographic picture. |
1927 | North America - USA
| The first talking picture The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson is released. |
1927 | Europe
| First trans-Atlantic telephone call |
1928 | North America - USA
| Mickey Mouse is shown for the first time by Walt Disney |
1928 | Europe - Spain
| Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) and Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) makes Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), |
1929 | North America - USA
| Museum of Modern Art opens in New York. |
1931 | Europe - Spain
| Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) paints The Persistence of Memory |
1932 | North America - USA
| Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) flies solo across the Atlantic. |
1934 | Europe - 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. |
1937 | Europe - 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. |
1938 | North America - USA
| The full length cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is shown. |
1938 | Europe - Spain
| George Orwell publishes Homage to Catalonia |
1939 | North America - USA
| The film The Wizard of Oz is released. |
1939 | North America - USA
| John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath |
1939 | North America - USA
| The film Gone with the Wind is released. |