1. Bell Ringer Chapter 20:3 Radio and Movies
What were the major innovations of mass entertainment in the 20’s?
How did mass entertainment affect American Culture?
Pick a movie star, sports hero, or other major figure and tell why he/she was important?
What modern figure does your person from question 3 correspond to?
Radio and Movies
Radio and movies reached many Americans and created a common culture.

2. Popular Culture is Born
Chapter 20:3

4. Radio Radio was originally used by ships at sea and the military
1920 Westinghouse Co. starts the first corporate radio station in the U.S.
News and entertainment programming creates a mass market for radios
New innovations like the vacuum tube make radios more effective
The radio makes mass culture possible: the whole country now hears the same news, advertisements, and political messages

5. Movies D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation is first blockbuster
Rudolph Valentino
Movies
D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation is first blockbuster
Movie contains many racist themes
1928 The Jazz Singer is first talkie
Walt Disney debuts animation film
Steamboat Willie

6. Movie Stars Rudolph Valentino becomes romantic symbol
Clara Bow becomes known as the “It Girl”
Charlie Chaplin is biggest star of silent movies
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Picford make first Hollywood super couple

7. Lucky Lindy
Charles Lindberg makes first trans-Atlantic flight in 33.5 hours; New York to Paris
First national hero and was universally respected for his exploits

8. Amelia Earhart Earhart becomes first women to cross the Atlantic
Set many speed and distance records
She disappears over the Pacific trying to fly around the world; her remains have never been located

9. The Lost Generation F. Scott Fitzgerald and his The Great Gatsby
Ernest Hemingway and his A Farewell to Arms
George Gershwin is major composer of the 1920’s
Gertrude Stein makes reference to American artists living in Paris as the “Lost Generation”

10. Sports Heroines Helen Wills is dominant tennis player of her era
Gertrude Ederle swims English Channel in 14 hours 31 minutes
Broke record by two hours
Babe Didrikson was the finest all-around athlete of her generation, excelling in Track and Field, Golf, and Basketball

11. Sports Heroes Babe Ruth is first mega sports star
Red Grange, the “Galloping Ghost” is college football star
Bobby Jones wins golf’s grand slam
Jack Dempsey is biggest sports hero of the age
6’1 187 lbs w/ 77 reach
6’5 248 lbs w/ 84 reach
Lennox Lewis

12. Baseball and the Growth of America 1929