Today in class we had a research day. I started looking into my second topic which was the culture of the movies in the 30’s.I found a site to look into further later but it did say that most movies of this time where in black and white although they did start to move into the so called “Talkies”, which were movies that talked, and some color films. The genres were expanding rapidly to now include gangster films, musicals, newspaper-reporting films, historical biopics, social-realism films, comedies, westerns and horror.http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.htmlI also found a good site that focused more on the way people were going to movies. They went to movies to sort of escape from the Great Depression for a while. People were fascinated by the way movies gave a glimpse into high society life which was so far from all of the life they were currently living. "My Man Godfrey" was a film in this time that told the story of a man that lost all of his money in the stock market crash and gained it back working as a butcher for a wealthy family.In some small towns people decided to draw more people to the movies by offering free movies on Thursday nights. They would go downtown where the movie was projected onto a wall and people would gather to see all of their friends and watch a movie.When sound came into movies it wasn’t that reliable to start. Sometimes it wouldn’t go along with the movie at all.During this time Hollywood entered its so called Golden Age. People came to movies to see many of the big stars at the time like Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, little Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Walt Disney’s Snow White became the first full length animated film in 1937. Two years later Gone with the Wind premiered in Atlanta.http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_16.htmlthere is a good picture of a theater on there
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