The Golden Age of Hollywood

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Pop Culture the Great Depression
Today What was music like during the Depression
years?
REALITY
Pop Culture
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"The Golden Age of Hollywood"

• 1930s
• Popular Culture
• Escapism

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Life During the Depressionwas sad
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Unemployment 1 out of every 4 Unemployed (25)
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Hunger forced to wait in line for soup bread
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Homelessness
Hobo
http//www.worldpath.net/minstrel/hobosign.htm
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Hoovervilles
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1930s Music Sad Optimism?
How Can a Man Stand such times and Live
Welfare Store Blues
We Sure Got Hard Times Now
Keep on the Sunny Side
Happy Days are Here Again
Whos Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
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The Dust Bowl
Location U.S.A, The Great Plains (Nebraska,
Oklahoma, etc.)
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Woody Guthrie Voice of the Dust Bowl
I Aint Got No Home
Do Re Mi
Dusty Old Dust
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How do we survive the Depression?
FDR
We Have Nothing to Fear But Fear itself
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1930 Pop Culture Tragedy
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1932
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Dear Sir!Have 50.000 redy 25 000 in20 bills
15000 in 10 bills and10000 in 5 bills After
24 dayswe will inform you were to deliverthe
mony.We warn you for makinganyding public or
for notify the PoliceThe child is in gut
care.Indication for all letters areSingnature
(Symbol to right) and three hohls
Ransom Note
J Edgar Hoover FBI
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Bruno Richard Hauptmann Executed 1936
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1930s Pop Culture
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G - Men
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Pop Culture the Great Depression
Today What was film like during the Depression
years? How did the film industry survive the
Depression?
REALITY
Pop Culture
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"The Golden Age of Hollywood"

• 1930s
• Popular Culture
• Escapism

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1st Movie to Feature Sound (1927) The Jazz
Singer
30s Films called Talkies
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Overall the 1930s theaters were powered by the
musical

• Why?

Escapism
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1st Platinum Blond
Greta Garbo
Jean Harlow
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Joan Crawford Clark Gable
John Wayne Spaghetti Westerns
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Goldwyn Girls Dance, Sang, and Looked Good
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Busby Berkeley 1 musical choreographer
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Lucille Ball 1950s Comedian got her start as as
a Goldwyn Girl
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Pop Culture the Great Depression
Topic How did the film industry survive the
Depression?
REALITY
Pop Culture
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The Big 5 Studios that survived the Depression
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How did the film industry survive the Great
depression?

• What were ways the Big 5 held onto their power?

Big name actors in their filmsand only their
films
Packaged the films had to purchase Less popular
films in order to get the blockbuster
They owned the movie theaters
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How did the film industry survive the Great
depression?

• The Little 3 Studios

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How did the film industry survive the Great
depression?

• During the crash and after why did film
  production companies start making extremely moral
  uplifting films?

After the crash big companies or anyone left
with money were the enemies. Movies went
overboard with morals to prove they were the
good guys.
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1928 Steamboat Willie
March 16, 1934The Three Little Pigs
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www.youtube.com/watch?vB-x_QRww3Bk
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December 21, 19371st Feature Length Animated Film
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Studio Lot 51 acres Burbank CA
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Mickey
Pigs
The Ugly Duckling
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