THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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They were usually an hour long.
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They usually cost about $5.00 to watch.
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They were silent.
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They were usually in another language.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Phonographs and other prototypes of speakers were used to accompany silent films during the late 1920s, yet before this, all films were silent due to the fact that sound recording capabilities within the film itself were not yet developed and wouldn’t be until the 1930s.
Detailed explanation-2: -The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid-to-late 1920s. At first, the sound films which included synchronized dialogue, known as “talking pictures", or “talkies", were exclusively shorts. The earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects.
Detailed explanation-3: -Made from the 1890s through the late 1920s, silent films are movies without synchronized sound and dialogue.
Detailed explanation-4: -The rise of “talkies” from the late 1920s onwards led to a radical shake-up of the entertainment industry. Live entertainment went into decline and variety theatres became movie palaces, where eager punters could see exactly the same entertainment as their fellows in Los Angeles, Berlin or Bombay.