The Golden age of Hollywood1927-1948

Mari Soone, 11.a

Contents

Backround Beginning,ending Genres Studio system Musicals The Golden Age of Animation

Backround

The Great Depression II WW 25 % unemployed

Beginning, Ending

The silent period ended 1927 first talkie “The jazz singer” 60-70 million Americans per week

Decline of the studio system a federal antitrust action the advent of television

Most popular Genres

FILM NOIR (black film) 40’s, pessimistic’

"The Postman Always Rings Twice“ 1946 COMEDIES, duos Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing

Crosby WESTERNS John Ford DOCUMENTARIES(WAR) MUSICALS

"During the Depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than

at any other time, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his

troubles." President Franklin Roosevelt

Studio system

THE "BIG FIVE" STUDIOS 20th Century Fox

(1935) MGM Paramount Warner Bros. RKO Radio

Own style Characteristic touches

Columbia (1932) Universal United Artists

20th Century Fox

California, LA 1935 Fox Film corporation, William Fox

1915 Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple(1928-…)

career in 1932 (3)

1934 “Bright Eyes”

1935 Academy Award (Oscar)

MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

California, LA 1924 Marcus Loew (Metro PicturesGoldwyn Pictures CorporationLouis B. Mayer Pictures)

“Grand Hotel” (1932) Tom and Jerry cartoons “The Wizard Of Oz” “Gone With The Wind”

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

musical fantasy film 3 Oscars "Over the Rainbow" (Best Original Song)

Gone With The Wind (1939)

Clark Gable “The king of Hollywood”

Classic tale of a love-hate romance

The most beloved, enduring and popular film of all time

8 Oscars "Frankly, my dear, I

don't give a damn“

Elizabeth Taylor

1932 –2011 child star National Velvet (1944) – 1st success Lassie Come Home (1943)

Paramount

California, LA 1912 Adolph Zukor

“I'm No Angel “(1933) Mae West

“The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress”

1944, William Wyler Documentary final mission of the

Memphis Belle, a B-17 Flying Fortress

everyday courage of the men who manned these planes

Warner bros

Burbank, LA, California 1918 Jack, Harry, Albert and Sam Warner

“The jazz singer” Warner's cartoons(1930) Porky pig, Bugs Bunny (Looney Toons)

First talkie “The Jazz singer”

"Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" Al Jolson

Director: Alan Crosland1927

88 min

First full-color, live-action short

La Cucaracha (1934) (cockroach)

RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures

New York, 1929 David Sarnoff

“Morning glory”(1933) Katharine Hepburn

“King Kong” (1933) “Citizen Kane”

Citizen Kane(1941)

Drama, mystery Director: Orson Welles American Film Institute#1 Greatest Movie of All Time innovative

cinematography, music and narrative structure

First Full-lengthed Coloured Film

28 June 1935“Becky Sharp”(Thackeray's “Vanity Fair”) Rouben Mamoulian (1 h 24 min)

Musicals, 30s

Gold Diggers of 193342nd StreetFootlight Parade

highest money making ones of the decade

directly addressed the Depression

models of strength, courage, charisma, vulnerability, and triumph

Aspiration- pürgimus, Escapism- tõelisusest põgenemine

1937–1941 The Golden Age of

Animation

Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) Mickey Mouse (1928) Snow white and the 7 dwarfs (1937)

Pinocchio,Fantasia, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Wind in the Willows

First three-strip Film

Before two-strip technicolor (red and green)

“Flowers and trees” Silly symphonies (animated short

subjects) 27 May 1933, Walt disney

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

the most successful film of its time

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