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1930s Film: The Silence, the Sex, and the Stars

1930s Film: The Silence, the Sex, and the Stars. Cori Heyman History 299 November 29. Thomas Edison’s Nickelodeon . Vaudeville. The Great Train Robbery (1903). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKv-LMfu4AY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY. Store Front Nickelodeons.

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1930s Film: The Silence, the Sex, and the Stars

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  1. 1930s Film: The Silence, the Sex, and the Stars Cori Heyman History 299 November 29

  2. Thomas Edison’s Nickelodeon

  3. Vaudeville

  4. The Great Train Robbery (1903) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKv-LMfu4AY • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY

  5. Store Front Nickelodeons

  6. Birth of a Nation (1915) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Z8A4lzUOQ

  7. Intertitles

  8. World War I • Boosted movie business • War wasn’t fought on U.S. land, theaters thrived • Studios in other countries were destroyed or turned into war factories • US had the money to make better, higher budget films • US had the best films and other countries wanted them.

  9. Buster Keaton

  10. “Fatty” Arbuckle

  11. Charlie Chaplin

  12. Surviving the Great Depression • Hollywood made the best movies • Hollywood was biggest international distributer in 1920s • The coming of sound in 1927 lured people to the box offices

  13. The Jazz Singer (1927) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkyvstNrkHo

  14. Steamboat Willie (1928) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojvtp3aHKdc&feature=related

  15. Marx Brothers

  16. Shirley Temple

  17. Katherine Hepburn

  18. Fred Astaire

  19. Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland

  20. Surviving the Great Depression • Hollywood made the best movies • Hollywood was biggest international distributer in 1920s • The coming of sound in 1927 lured people to the box offices • Two for one deals • Give- away raffles • Increasing the “edge” by….

  21. Upingthe Violence….

  22. The Horror…. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Pgw_nUlMw&feature=related • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G2X8QBt5m4

  23. and the Sex.

  24. Queen Christina(1933) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPZIqw9RcOU

  25. The Legion of Decency • A: acceptable • B: adults • C: condemned

  26. Production Code and Hay’s Office

  27. Blonde Bombshells

  28. Scarface (1932)

  29. Gone with the Wind (1939)

  30. Wizard of Oz (1939)

  31. Snow White (1937)Happy Endings • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-johrg20M4

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