The Movies and Motion Picture Industry of the 1920’s!

What Were the 1920’s Movies All About?

• Slapstick Comedy

• No Sound

• Black and White

• Rise of Major Celebrities

Why All the Fuss Over Movies?• “Living Newspapers”• Local National –Celebrities– Appeal

• Commented on Society– common values– set new trends

• Escape

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Education, Inc., 2007.

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“Who Watched the Film?” History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web. 31st March

2006. The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and the Center for Learning and New Media. 19 October 2008. <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/film/question4.html>.

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Carolyn Thompson Noel Waddington