Radio and cinema

ANGLO AMERICAN POP CULTURE IN PEACE AND WAR

• Features of the culture

• Role of Charlie Chaplain

• Role of Bing Crosby

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Associated with radio, cinema, jazz and sport and expanded because of:

• Shorter working week

• More women working

• People being better off

POP CULTURE 1920 AND 1930S

• Pop culture = young culture • Radio was first broadcast in 1922• BBC was set up in 1922 to control

radio• Late 1930s 75% of house had radio • BBC programmes boosted popular

music, kept people informed • Cinema popular:1920s black and white silent moves1930s sound films introduced (The Jazz Singer)

• London born star of the silent era

• Developed the character of the tramp

• Book pg. 87

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

• Super cinema could hold 3000 people

• Cinema most pop. form of entertainment in Britain

• 1939: 50% of people went once a week

• No class divide• Escape from reality

CINEMA

1. Set trends: fashion, hair and sayings

2. Spread Anglo-American culture through Europe

3. Lead actors and actresses spread attractiveness of cinema

4. Advent of sound created new stars in the 1930s

5. Musicals became new type movies

CINEMA INFLUENCE ON SOCIETY

• Hair was cut shorter • Wore knee length skirts • Smoked • Rebellion against the older

generation • Mainly middle and upper class

(as they had access to money) • Flappers

WOMEN IN SOCIETY

• Jazz • Records, radio and cinema

helped promote growth • Spread from America to Europe• Brought new dances such as

the Charleston and the foxtrot

MUSIC

CHARLESTON

• Mass spectator sport began to grow from radio and cinema

• Development of sport hero's• Soccer became Britain's National

sport: development of football leagues

• World Cup finals in 1930 huge attention : Uruguay V Argentina

• Boxing and athletics also popular

SPORT

WORLD CUP 1930

• Played important roles in propaganda • Reached mass audiences: boosted

morale• Main news of events in the war for

masses • Cinema produced films with war effort • Stars of film visited troops to boost

morale

RADIO AND CINEMA IN WWII

BOXING MATCH 1920S