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Pop Culture: the Great Depression
Today:
What was music like during the
Depression years?
REALITY Pop Culture
"The Golden Age of Hollywood"
1930s Popular Culture
Escapism
Life During the Depressionwas sad…
Unemployment 1 out of every 4 = Unemployed (25%)
Hungerforced to wait in line for soup & bread
Homelessness
http://www.worldpath.net/~minstrel/hobosign.htm
1930s Music = Sad Optimism?
“How Can a Man Stand such times and Live”
“We Sure Got Hard Times Now”
“Welfare StoreBlues”
“Happy Days are HereAgain”
“Keep on the Sunny Side ”
“Who’s Afraid of theBig Bad Wolf”
The Dust Bowl
Location: U.S.A, The Great Plains (Nebraska, Oklahoma, etc.)
Woody Guthrie – Voice of the Dust Bowl
“I Ain’t Got No Home”
“Do Re Mi”
“Dusty Old Dust”
How do we survive the Depression?
“We Have Nothing toFear…
But Fear itself”
1930: Pop Culture Tragedy
1932
J Edgar Hoover FBI
Ransom Note
Dear Sir!Have 50.000$ redy 25 000$ in20$ bills 15000$ in 10$ bills and10000$ in 5$ bills After 2–4 dayswe will inform you were to deliverthe mony.
We warn you for makinganyding public or for notify the PoliceThe child is in gut care.Indication for all letters areSingnature (Symbol to right)
and three hohls
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Executed 1936
1930s Pop Culture
G - Men
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
"The Golden Age of Hollywood"
1930s Popular Culture
Escapism
1st Movie to Feature Sound:
(1927) The Jazz Singer
30s Films called“Talkies”
Overall the 1930s theaters were powered by the musical
Why?
Escapism
Jean Harlow Greta Garbo
1st Platinum Blond
Joan Crawford & Clark Gable
John WayneSpaghetti Westerns
Goldwyn GirlsDance, Sang, and
Looked Good
Busby Berkeley#1 musical
choreographer
Lucille Ball1950s Comediangot her start as
as a Goldwyn Girl
Pop Culture: the Great Depression
Topic:
How did the film industry survive the Depression?
REALITY Pop Culture
The Big 5 – Studios that survived the Depression
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…andonly their films
Packaged the films = had to purchaseLess popular films in order to get the
blockbuster
They owned the movie theaters
How did the film industry survive the Great depression?
The “Little 3” Studios
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.
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”
December 21, 19371st Feature Length Animated Film
Studio Lot = 51 acres Burbank CA
Mickey
Pigs
What to
Watch?
The Ugly Duckling
