Movies in the 1920s

Nicole PolkMadison Saunders

Keke Glenn

First Sound Film http://youtu.be/PIaj7FNHnjQ “Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain’t heard nothin’ yet.

Wait, I tell ya, you ain’t heard nothing ! Do you wanna hear Toot, toot, toosie”- Al Jolson

http://youtu.be/22NQuPrwbHA

But It Didn’t Start This Way…

The first films were black and white silent films.

Movies were used to make people laugh and make the world a “better” place after the horrors of WWI.

The first movie theatres were called Nickelodeons.

Fact: the first Nickelodeon opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Charlie Chaplin Considered World’s Greatest Comedian Became famous at 10 Liberty Loan drive: “The Bond” was his and the

government used it to help in the war effort Joined with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W.

Griffith to found United Artists Corporation

John Barrymore

Starred in Dr.Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920)Starred in the first feature to be released with synchronized musical score (1926, Don Juan)1920’s he was acclaimed as the greatest Shakespearian actor of his timeAlways thought about money and was a drunkDied: May 29,1942 at the age of 60

Walt Disney He transformed the entertainment industry into what it is today.He had a 43 year long Hollywood career, which developed the motion picture industry as a modern American art.In 1918, at the age of 16, Walt joined the red cross and went to France where he drove a ambulance and his specific ambulance was covered from stern to stern of Disney CartoonsMickey Mouse made his screen debut in Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928

Steamboat Willie became the first synchronized sound cartoon. "We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.“

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Problem and Solution

The problems during the 1920s were that movies were silent and in black and white.

Although the black and white problems weren’t solved til later silent films surely wee.

RCA, Western Electric, At&t, and Warner Brothers all teamed up and formed Vitaphone which produced the first sound system.

Timeline Over View

In 1920, the famous novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was released as a movie.

In 1921, The Capitol Theater in New York City seated 8,000 people, at the time it was the biggest cinema in the world.

In 1922, 84% of films were being made in Hollywood. In 1924, Columbia Pictures was found by Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn and Joe

Brandt. In 1926, "The Black Pirate" was released by Douglas Fairbanks, which

was the first feature-length Technicolor movie In 1927, “The Jazz Singer” was released. In 1928, "Steamboat Willie" was released, which was the first film Mickey

Mouse spoke. In 1929, most theaters showed sound films.

Work Cited

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