1. 1920s- Cinema, cont. Major technological advances –“Talkies”“Talkies Don Juan (1926) The Jazz Singer (1927) –Warner Brothers production- $422,000 to make (about double the usual cost) –Vitaphone, sound-on-disc technology –Al Jolson, lead actor –He plays Jackie Rabonowitz-Jack Robin – 350 words, 6 songs –“wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothing yet”“wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothing yet”

2. Lights of New York (1928) –Crime movie –1 st complete talkie –$23,000 to make, brings in over $1 million On with the Show! (1929) –Musical, “Natural Color” –Color (two-strip Technicolor), talkie –Very detailed history of the evolution of color in early filmhistory

3. Other significant developments - overviewoverview –Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors of America (1921/1922) New York Board of Motion Picture Censorship (1909) National Board of Censorship, National Board of Review (1915) 3 Congressional bills (1914) - fail Will H. Hays “Don’ts” and “Be Carefuls” –Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts (1927) First Awards ceremony – 1929 –“The Golden Age of Hollywood,” early 1930s