1. Pop Culture: the Great Depression Today: What was music and film like during the Depression years? REALITY Pop Culture

2. "The Golden Age of Hollywood" 1930s Popular Culture Escapism

3. Life During the Depression was sad…

4. Unemployment 1 out of every 4 = Unemployed (25%)

5. Hunger forced to wait in line for soup & bread

6. Homelessness http://www.worldpath.net/~minstrel/hobosign.htm

12. 1930s Music = Sad Optimism? “How Can a Man Stand such times and Live” “We Sure Got Hard Times Now” “Welfare Store Blues” “Happy Days are Here Again” “Keep on the Sunny Side ” “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf”

13. The Dust Bowl Location:U.S.A, The Great Plains (Nebraska, Oklahoma, etc.)

17. Woody Guthrie – Voice of the Dust Bowl “I Ain’t Got No Home” “Do Re Mi” “Dusty Old Dust”

18. How do we survive the Depression? “We Have Nothing to Fear… But Fear itself”

19. 1930: Pop Culture Tragedy

20. 1932

21. J Edgar Hoover FBI Ransom Note

22. Bruno Richard Hauptmann Executed 1936

23. 1930s Pop Culture

24. G - Men

25. Pop Culture: the Great Depression Today: What was music and film like during the Depression years? How did the film industry survive the Depression? REALITY Pop Culture

26. "The Golden Age of Hollywood" 1930s Popular Culture Escapism

27. Overall the 1930s theaters were powered by the musical Why? Escapism

28. 1 st Movie to Feature Sound: (1927) The Jazz Singer 30s Films called “Talkies”

30. Jean Harlow Greta Garbo 1 st Platinum Blond

31. Joan Crawford & Clark Gable John Wayne Spaghetti Westerns

32. Goldwyn Girls Dance, Sang, and Looked Good

33. Busby Berkeley #1 musical choreographer

34. Lucille Ball 1950s Comedian got her start as as a Goldwyn Girl

36. Pop Culture: the Great Depression Topic: How did the film industry survive the Depression? REALITY Pop Culture

38. The Big 5 – Studios that survived the Depression

39. How did the film industry survive the Great depression? What were ways the Big 5 held onto their power? Big name actors in their films…and only their films Packaged the films = had to purchase Less popular films in order to get the blockbuster They owned the movie theaters

40. How did the film industry survive the Great depression? The “Little 3” Studios

42. How did the film industry survive the Great depression? During the crash and after; why did film production companies start making extremely moral & uplifting films? After the crash big companies or anyone left with money were the enemies. Movies went overboard with morals to prove they were the good guys.

43. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4 1928 = Steamboat Willie www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-x_QRww3Bk March 16, 1934 “The Three Little Pigs”

44. December 21, 1937 1 st Feature Length Animated Film

45. Studio Lot = 51 acres Burbank CA

46. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4 Mickey? www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-x_QRww3Bk Pigs? What to Watch?