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You will need your Notebook. No Graphic Organizer Today. Journal: Pick up the lyrics for “Brother Can you Spare a Dime”? I will play the song for you and you will write a response answering the question at the bottom of the lyrics.
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You will need your Notebook. No Graphic Organizer Today • Journal: Pick up the lyrics for “Brother Can you Spare a Dime”? I will play the song for you and you will write a response answering the question at the bottom of the lyrics. • Learning Target: I can define the stylistic changes made to theater during the 1930s.
Drama in the 1930s…. Let’s go to the theater!!
Theater’s were an escape for people during the Depression Does anyone know what theaters were called? (Hint: a cartoon channel’s name)
The “Golden Age of Hollywood”: From 1930 to 1948 • Sound and color revolutions • Advance of the 'talkies' • Development of film genres (gangster films, musicals, newspaper-reporting films, historical biopics, lighthearted screwball comedies, westerns and horror to name a few).
"Blonde Bombshell” concept • Young 'platinum blonde' star Jean Harlow appeared in her first major role in Howard Hughes' World War I aviation epic, Hell's Angels (1930)
Curly-topped, dimpled child star Shirley Temple appeared in her first films, an Our Gang type series of shorts titled Baby Burlesks (1933) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXPsbsYb-28
The first appearance of the cartoon character Popeye was in the Betty Boop cartoon from Paramount and Max Fleischer, Popeye the Sailor (1933) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfKTC0yAKmM Mickey debuted in November 1928 in the animated cartoon Steamboat Willie •Walt Disney's 8-minute The Wise Little Hen (1934) featured the first appearance of Donald Duck
From Black and White to… COLOR • Produced with Technicolor • What would the Wizard of Oz (with ruby slippers and a yellow brick road) be without color? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6D8PAGelN8
Horror Movies of the 1930s! Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi
Check out some 1930s trailers http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_film.cfm?mediatypeid=3&eraid=14&smtid=7