1. Pop Culture: the Great Depression
Today:
What was music 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. 1 out of every 4 = Unemployed (25%)
Unemployment
1 out of every 4 = Unemployed (25%)

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

6. Homelessness
Hobo

9. Hoovervilles

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

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”
“This land is your land”

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

19. 1930: Pop Culture Tragedy

20. 1932

21. Ransom Note J Edgar Hoover FBI
Dear Sir!Have $ redy $ in 20$ bills 15000$ in 10$ bills and 10000$ in 5$ bills After 2–4 days we will inform you were to deliver the mony. We warn you for making anyding public or for notify the Police The child is in gut care. Indication for all letters are Singnature (Symbol to right)
and three hohls
Ransom Note
J Edgar Hoover
FBI

22. Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Executed 1936

23. 1930s Pop Culture

24. G - Men

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

26. 1st Movie to Feature Sound:
(1927) The Jazz Singer
30s Films called
“Talkies”

28. 1st Platinum Blond
Greta Garbo
Jean Harlow

29. Joan Crawford &
Clark Gable
John Wayne
Spaghetti Westerns

30. Goldwyn Girls
Dance, Sang, and
Looked Good

31. Busby Berkeley
#1 musical
choreographer

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

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

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

36. 1st Movie to Feature Sound:
(1927) The Jazz Singer
30s Films called
“Talkies”

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

39. 1st Platinum Blond
Greta Garbo
Jean Harlow

40. Joan Crawford &
Clark Gable
John Wayne
Spaghetti Westerns

41. Goldwyn Girls
Dance, Sang, and
Looked Good

42. Busby Berkeley
#1 musical
choreographer

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

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

47. The Big 5 – Studios that survived the Depression

48. 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

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

51. 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.

52. March 16, 1934 “The Three Little Pigs”
1928 = Steamboat Willie
March 16, 1934 “The Three Little Pigs”

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

54. Studio Lot = 51 acres Burbank CA

55. Mickey
Pigs
The Ugly Duckling
What to
Watch?