1. The Roaring 20s

2. Speakeasies

3. Flappers

4. Flappers Women gain right to vote in Canada in 1918
Remain in workforce after WW I
Short slim skirts, drank and smoked in public
Short bobbed hair
Demonstrated new freedom, power

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Early Movies
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6. The Jazz Singer (1927)
The 1st feature length motion picture with synchronized dialogue.
Starred Al Jolson
Marked the decline of the silent film era

7. Filmmaking Giants
Major film making companies were founded in the early ’20s such as MGM, Warner Brothers, and Columbia pictures
In the early ’20s America was the leading producer of films in the world.

8. Silent Film Industry
Silent films were the predominant product of the film industry

9. The greatest output of feature films occurred in the 1920s (about 800 film releases in a year) - nowadays, production doesn't exceed 500 films a year.

10. Synchronized Sound
Early silent films were often accompanied by live piano or organ music to set the mood of the scene.

11. Movie Theaters
Many of the movie theatres of the 1920s were so grand that people nicknamed them "picture palaces." Exteriors were gaudy, and electrical extravaganzas were held.
Wanted movie goers to see movies more frequently.

12. Walt Disney
The famous film maker, Walt Disney began career in the 1920s starting with Steamboat Willie which was the premier of America’s favorite mouse! MICKEY!

13. The films were in major demand during this era
The films were in major demand during this era. Silent theaters where packed every night. The end of the Great War and the stock market crash did not affect film theaters and studios.

15. Aviation Heroes
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart

16. Charles Lindbergh 1st person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean by
33 hours and 39 minutes
Received a prize of $25,000

17. “You can get much further with a kind word and a gun  than you can with a kind word alone.”

18. Early Mobsters....

19. 1st Radio Broadcast - 1920 First Broadcast
At 6:00pm, on Tuesday, November 2, 1920, a few men in a shack changed the course of history.
Pittsburgh, PA.

20. Sports Stars of the 20's

21. Ku Klux Klan Targets in the 1920s: Immigrants = Jews and Catholics
Blacks
Immigrants = Jews and Catholics

22. The Great Migration
Movement of African-Americans from the South to Urban areas of United States
More than 1.5 million
1914 – 1930
Escape racism, find better jobs, overall better life in the North

23. Roaring Twenties In music, the three sounds were jazz, jazz, and jazz.
The Jazz Age came about with artists like Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington. Youth ruled everything. From the young styles of dress to the latest celebrities. If it was young, it was the thing.
“It was the age of prohibition, it was the age of prosperity, and it was the age of downfall. It was the age of everything”

24. Roaring 20s Videos 20s videos Dance Craze, 1920s, Flappers

25. PERSON’S CASE: THE FAMOUS FIVE