1. Culture During The Depression Section 10.3

2. Agenda for Today 10.3 Slide Show Presentations Homework Read 11.1 Quiz tomorrow on Chapter 10 (40 points)

3. Objectives At the end of this lesson you should be able to: Define Escapism and why it came about during the depression Identify examples in which people escaped from the depression through cars, vacations, the Silver Screen, radio

4. What is Escapism? an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy How? –entertainment –romantic novels –Alcohol or drug abuse

5. What were people trying to escape from during the Depression?

6. What role did the car play in helping people escape the drudgery of the Great Depression? Attended Auto shows Bought or kept cars –Status Symbol=sign of wealth –1933= 24 million registered car owners –1940= 32 million > 50% of American families owned a car Took driving trips as a family vacation Trailers fad is born

7. How did people escape from household drudgery? Appliance Revolution Electrical power reached remote areas (Arkansas) Refrigerators replaced ice boxes Vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, electric irons made chores easier Very cheap during Depression

8. How did the Silver Screen help people escape the Depression? Talkies- movies with sound more common in the 30s 10 cents for double feature matinee Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Gone with the Wind (almost 4 hours) One of the 1 st color films 60-90 million went to movies weekly

9. Ginger and Fred Busby Berkeley Presentations

10. Top Hat

11. Fred & Ginger

12. Busby Berkley

13. Why is the 1930s considered the “Golden Age” of Radio? Large featured piece of furniture and focal point of living room 10 million owned in 1929 30 million by 1939 Featured soap operas in afternoon, quiz shows, Children’s shows (Lone Ranger, Superman, Little Orphan Annie), comedies

14. Entertainment