1. 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

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

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

4. 1 st Movie to Feature Sound: (1927) The Jazz Singer 30s Films called “Talkies”

6. Jean Harlow Greta Garbo 1 st Platinum Blond

7. Joan Crawford & Clark Gable John Wayne Spaghetti Westerns

8. Goldwyn Girls Dance, Sang, and Looked Good

9. Busby Berkeley #1 musical choreographer

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

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

14. The Big 5 – Studios that survived the Depression

15. 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

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

18. 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.

19. 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”

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

21. Studio Lot = 51 acres Burbank CA

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