1. 1920s- Cinema
Theaters/Palaces
Large, ostentatious
Often 6,000-7,000 seats
More than 20,000 theaters by 1920
Ornamented, aristocratic
The Roxy – NY – completed in 1927 – prime example
Herbert Lubin, Samuel Rothafel “Roxy” create it
For performers - dressing rooms, rehearsal spaces, dry cleaning and laundry rooms, hair stylist and barber shop, animal pens, private screening room
For staff – cafeteria, gym, billiard room, sleeping/nap room, library, showers
For audience – 110-person orchestra, 6,214 seats

3. Film stars
Mary Pickford, Charles Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, Greta Garbo
Make about $1 million per year
Pickford photo next

5. Genres evolve – examples below
Documentary
Nanook of the North – 1922
Horror
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – 1919
Nosferatu
Crime/Gangster
Piccadilly
Fantasy/Science Fiction
Metropolis

6. Comedy
The Cocoanuts
Drama
The Wind
Pandora’s Box – 1929
Romance
Don Juan (1926)