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The Golden age of Hollywood1927-1948
Mari Soone, 11.a
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Backround Beginning,ending Genres Studio system Musicals The Golden Age of Animation
Backround
The Great Depression II WW 25 % unemployed
Beginning, Ending
The silent period ended 1927 first talkie “The jazz singer” 60-70 million Americans per week
Decline of the studio system a federal antitrust action the advent of television
Most popular Genres
FILM NOIR (black film) 40’s, pessimistic’
"The Postman Always Rings Twice“ 1946 COMEDIES, duos Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing
Crosby WESTERNS John Ford DOCUMENTARIES(WAR) MUSICALS
"During the Depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than
at any other time, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his
troubles." President Franklin Roosevelt
Studio system
THE "BIG FIVE" STUDIOS 20th Century Fox
(1935) MGM Paramount Warner Bros. RKO Radio
Own style Characteristic touches
Columbia (1932) Universal United Artists
20th Century Fox
California, LA 1935 Fox Film corporation, William Fox
1915 Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple(1928-…)
career in 1932 (3)
1934 “Bright Eyes”
1935 Academy Award (Oscar)
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
California, LA 1924 Marcus Loew (Metro PicturesGoldwyn Pictures CorporationLouis B. Mayer Pictures)
“Grand Hotel” (1932) Tom and Jerry cartoons “The Wizard Of Oz” “Gone With The Wind”
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
musical fantasy film 3 Oscars "Over the Rainbow" (Best Original Song)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
Clark Gable “The king of Hollywood”
Classic tale of a love-hate romance
The most beloved, enduring and popular film of all time
8 Oscars "Frankly, my dear, I
don't give a damn“
Elizabeth Taylor
1932 –2011 child star National Velvet (1944) – 1st success Lassie Come Home (1943)
Paramount
California, LA 1912 Adolph Zukor
“I'm No Angel “(1933) Mae West
“The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress”
1944, William Wyler Documentary final mission of the
Memphis Belle, a B-17 Flying Fortress
everyday courage of the men who manned these planes
Warner bros
Burbank, LA, California 1918 Jack, Harry, Albert and Sam Warner
“The jazz singer” Warner's cartoons(1930) Porky pig, Bugs Bunny (Looney Toons)
First talkie “The Jazz singer”
"Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" Al Jolson
Director: Alan Crosland1927
88 min
First full-color, live-action short
La Cucaracha (1934) (cockroach)
RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures
New York, 1929 David Sarnoff
“Morning glory”(1933) Katharine Hepburn
“King Kong” (1933) “Citizen Kane”
Citizen Kane(1941)
Drama, mystery Director: Orson Welles American Film Institute#1 Greatest Movie of All Time innovative
cinematography, music and narrative structure
First Full-lengthed Coloured Film
28 June 1935“Becky Sharp”(Thackeray's “Vanity Fair”) Rouben Mamoulian (1 h 24 min)
Musicals, 30s
Gold Diggers of 193342nd StreetFootlight Parade
highest money making ones of the decade
directly addressed the Depression
models of strength, courage, charisma, vulnerability, and triumph
Aspiration- pürgimus, Escapism- tõelisusest põgenemine
1937–1941 The Golden Age of
Animation
Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) Mickey Mouse (1928) Snow white and the 7 dwarfs (1937)
Pinocchio,Fantasia, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Wind in the Willows
First three-strip Film
Before two-strip technicolor (red and green)
“Flowers and trees” Silly symphonies (animated short
subjects) 27 May 1933, Walt disney
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
the most successful film of its time
Used materials
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www.essortment.com/hollywoods-golden-age-35716.html http://
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Thank you, any questions?