The Roaring 20s

Flappers

Short slim skirts, drank and smoked in public

Short bobbed hair

Demonstrated new freedom, power

Women gain right to vote in Canada in 1918

Remain in workforce after WW I

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The JazzSinger (1927)

• The 1st feature length motion picture with synchronized dialogue.

• Starred Al Jolson

• Marked the decline of the silent film era

Filmmaking GiantsMajor film making companies were founded in

the early ’20s such as MGM, Warner Brothers, and Columbia pictures

In the early ’20s America was the leading producer of films in the world.

Silent films were the predominant product of the film industry

Silent Film Industry

The greatest output of feature films occurred in the 1920s (about 800 film releases in a year) - nowadays, production doesn't exceed 500 films a year.

Synchronized Sound

Early silent films were often accompanied by live piano or organ music to set the mood of the scene.

Many of the movie theatres of the 1920s were so grand that people nicknamed them "picture palaces." Exteriors were gaudy, and electrical extravaganzas were held.

Wanted movie goers to see movies more frequently.

Movie Theaters

Walt DisneyThe famous film maker, Walt Disney began career in the 1920s starting with Steamboat Willie which was the premier of America’s favorite mouse! MICKEY!

The films were in major demand during this era. Silent theaters where packed every night. The end of the Great War and the stock market crash did not affect film theaters and studios.

Amelia Earhart Charles Lindbergh

1st person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean by

33 hours and 39 minutes

Received a prize of $25,000

“You can get much further with a kind word and a gun 

than you can with a kind word alone.”

1st Radio Broadcast - 1920

First Broadcast At 6:00pm, on

Tuesday, November 2, 1920, a few men in a shack changed the course of history.

Pittsburgh, PA.

Ku Klux Klan• Targets in the 1920s:

– Blacks– Immigrants = Jews

and Catholics

• Movement of African-Americans from the South to Urban areas of United States

• More than 1.5 million• 1914 – 1930• Escape racism, find

better jobs, overall better life in the North

Roaring Twenties

In music, the three sounds were jazz, jazz, and jazz. The Jazz Age came about with artists like Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington. Youth ruled everything. From the young styles of dress to the latest celebrities. If it was young, it was the thing.

“It was the age of prohibition, it was the age of prosperity, and it was the age of downfall. It was the age of everything”

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Roaring 20s Videos

• 20s videos

Dance Craze, 1920s, Flappers

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