You will need your Notebook. No Graphic Organizer Today

• Journal: Pick up the lyrics for “Brother Can you Spare a Dime”? I will play the song for you and you will write a response answering the question at the bottom of the lyrics.

• Learning Target: I can define the stylistic changes made to theater during the 1930s.

Drama in the 1930s….

Let’s go to the theater!!

Theater’s were an escape for people

during the Depression

Does anyone know what theaters were called? (Hint: a cartoon

channel’s name)

The “Golden Age of Hollywood”: From 1930 to 1948

• Sound and color revolutions

• Advance of the 'talkies'

• Development of film genres (gangster films, musicals, newspaper-reporting films, historical biopics, lighthearted screwball comedies, westerns and horror to name a few).

Art Deco Architecture was

present in the theaters

Fox Theater Detroit, Michigan

As the 1930s began, there were a number of unique firsts:

• "Blonde Bombshell” concept

• Young 'platinum blonde' star Jean Harlow appeared in her first major role in Howard Hughes' World War I aviation epic, Hell's Angels (1930)

• Curly-topped, dimpled child star Shirley Temple appeared in her first films, an Our Gang type series of shorts titled Baby Burlesks (1933)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXPsbsYb-28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfKTC0yAKmM

The first appearance of the cartoon character Popeye was in the Betty Boop cartoon from Paramount and Max Fleischer, Popeye the Sailor (1933)

•Walt Disney's 8-minute The Wise Little Hen (1934) featured the first appearance of Donald Duck

Mickey debuted in November 1928 in the animated cartoon Steamboat Willie

From Black and White to… COLOR

• Produced with Technicolor • What would the Wizard of Oz (with ruby

slippers and a yellow brick road) be without color? http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6D8PAGelN8

Horror Movies of the 1930s!

Bela Lugosi

Boris Karloff

Check out some 1930s trailers

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_film.cfm?mediatypeid=3&eraid=14&smtid=7

1930s Formative Assessment