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The Roaring Twenties Review
cars
cars where made cheaply
all civilizan could afford them
many could afford buying a car
Henry Ford
Henry Ford pioneered in car industry
introduced an assembly line before war.
Model T introduced
it was affordable as he realized that as more cheap the cars where more where sold
Entertainment
Movie theaters
movie stars
Charlie Chaplin
Douglas Fairbanks
Gloria Swanson
Bebe Daniels
camera men
talkie (not silent movie)
silent movies
filmer
Radios
radio stations
news
serial stories
political speeches
advertisements
radio programs
Amos 'n' Andy
sport entertainment
sports
famous athletes
Jim Thorpe
Helen Wills
Big Bill Tilden
Babe Ruth
Gertrude Ederle
Morals
cinema
over 1MILLION americans attended the cinema every week
producer had to do a lot of films
until 1927 movies had no sound
10 to 20 cents a movie
even poor people spend their money to go to the cinema
hollywodd
diseny - released snow white - mikey mouse
censored sex
famous actors
charlie chaplin = comedy
douglas fairbanks = adventure thriller movies
sex
taboo subject even before the war
First cinema star to be sold on sex: Theda Bara
referred as the IT (sex) girl
Cinema discovered quicklh the selling power. of. sex
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role of woman
became husbands property when married
There was no equality between woman and men until 1920
Didnt have the right to vote
1,920 woman had the right to vote
Growing Cities
1920: more people lived in towns and cities that in the country
skyscrapers was one of the most powerful symbols
build as there was no more land available in NYC.
small cities also began with skyscrapers to announce that they also where part of the boom
many people in the country felt threatened by growing cities
they thought they where full of criminals, atheists and drunks