Movies

• Cinema/Movies (Roaring 20s)

  Cinemas became a popular pastime for US citizens in the 1920s. Televisions had not yet been invented. This period was called the golden age of Hollywood. By 1929 around 110 million people visited the cinema each week.
• Cinema/Movies (Roaring 20s)

  Cinema technology developed significantly:

  Silent Films - 1890s-1920s there was no dialogue or sound, but a piano in the cinema would add music

  Films in Colour - 1922 began developing coloured films

  Talkies - 1927 talkies were introduced, it destroyed a lot of careers
• Cinema/Movies (Roaring 20s)

  Clara Bow - Film star who many people idolised, however her career was ended by talkies

  Rudolph Valentino - Film star who many people idolised, his career also ended from talkies
• The Hays Code(movies) - Majority of states threatened to ban films due to Americans being worried about some of the sexual content. Banned nudity

  limited the time people could kiss for (3s)

  No film character could profit from safe-cracking, arson or murder.
• Movies

  1919 - movies had a weekly audience of 35 million

  1930 - movies had a weekly audience of 100 million
• Star System

  Ways movie studios would promote their starring actors

  Magazines, interviews, photos shoots, radio shows
• Movies

  1929 - Hollywood Film studios were making 500 films a year

  1927 - First ever talkie 'The Jazz Singer' --> boosted cinema audiences to an all time high
• Films created a sense of identity and connection in a rapidly modernising society