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1920s- Cinema

1920s- Cinema. Theaters/Palaces Large, ostentatious Often 6,000-7,000 seats More than 20,000 theaters by 1920 Ornamented, aristocratic The Roxy – NY – completed in 1927 – prime example Herbert Lubin, Samuel Rothafel “Roxy” create it

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1920s- Cinema

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  1. 1920s- Cinema • Theaters/Palaces • Large, ostentatious • Often 6,000-7,000 seats • More than 20,000 theaters by 1920 • Ornamented, aristocratic • The Roxy – NY – completed in 1927 – prime example • Herbert Lubin, Samuel Rothafel “Roxy” create it • For performers - dressing rooms, rehearsal spaces, dry cleaning and laundry rooms, hair stylist and barber shop, animal pens, private screening room • For staff – cafeteria, gym, billiard room, sleeping/nap room, library, showers • For audience – 110-person orchestra, 6,214 seats

  2. Film stars • Mary Pickford, Charles Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, Greta Garbo • Make about $1 million per year • Pickford photo next

  3. Genres evolve – examples below • Documentary • Nanook of the North – 1922 • Horror • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – 1919 • Nosferatu - 1922 • Crime/Gangster • Piccadilly - 1929 • Fantasy/Science Fiction • Metropolis - 1927

  4. Comedy • The Cocoanuts - 1929 • Drama • The Wind - 1928 • Pandora’s Box – 1929 • Romance • Don Juan (1926)

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