1. By: Elijah Sterling & Alayna Mocarsky
1920’s Pop Culture
By: Elijah Sterling & Alayna Mocarsky

2. Radio
Local stations became popular and developed into national stations that became very popular
Known as the “Machine Age” with emerging modern technology
60% of American families purchased radios
radio stations were available
Advertising on the radio in the late 1920’s gave manufacturers a large profit
Federal Radio Commission 1926
Radio Act of 1927
Monitored stations and set up times for each program

3. Radio

4. Movies America was the #1 producer of movies
Color films were introduced, talking films were created
“The Jazz Singer” aka “the first talkie”
Hollywood studios were popular with three different groups:
“Big Five”,
20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Metro Golden Meyer, RKO
“Little Three”
Universal, United Artists, Columbia Pictures
“Poverty Row”
Disney, Monogram Studios, Republic Pictures, 20th Century Pictures
Actors and actresses were highly publicized
Were told when and where to eat, how to dress, what they can do, etc.,
Mid 1920’s 800 movies were made per year

5. Movies

6. Jazz Age Jazz was very popular in the 20s.
The future of jazz in the United States were defined by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, and Bix Beiderbecke.
Jazz didn’t just influence music, it also influenced fashion, poetry and the industry.
Jazz influenced a lot of fashion trends and it was apparent the way that the fashion industry revolved around the jazz culture.

7. Fashion

8. Fads Vibrant red Lips Dances Pole Sitting Pez
Popular makeup product for woman
Dances
Charleston, Fox Trot, Shimmy
Dance marathons
Couples competed on who can dance the longest for money
Pole Sitting
Started by Alvin “shipwreck” Kelly
Started as a dare in 1924
Ended when the Great Depression started
Pez
1927 Eduard Haas
Short for German word peppermint
Doubled as an anti-smoking campaign.
Pushed for people to eat pez instead of smoke cigarettes

9. Fads

10. Bibliography
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