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Declan Carroll

American Leisure: Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s

“Although music, radio, books, magazines, comics, sports, and other forms of mass entertainment were all significant in the thirties, nothing else was a central to American popular culture in that decade as motion pictures,� (McElvaine, 208). Consumer and popular culture is present in the motion picture industry after World War I. A large percentage of Americans went to the movies each week during the 1920s. Surprisingly, that number increased during the Great Depression. This could be due to the new technologies of the film industry. Sound was added to films in the late 1920s. Going to the movies was leisure activity of most Americans and it still is. Upper, middle and working class individuals all went to the movies. Neighborhood theaters allowed all races and ethnicities to go to in familiar company. Movie theaters had an impact on youth culture as well. Some historians believe that American......

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