Examples of Golden Age of Hollywood in the following topics:
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- The 1920s are often referred to as the Golden Age of Hollywood,
with "Talkies" and the first all-color features replacing silent
films.
- By the end of the
decade, cinema had changed significantly with major leaps in technology that
marked the Golden Age of Hollywood and ended the era of the silent film, which
itself had ended the previous, widespread popularity of Vaudeville Theater.
- This release
arguably launched the Golden Age of Hollywood.
- “The Toll of the Sea,”
released in 1922, was the first color feature made in Hollywood.
- American actress Louise Brooks was one of the box office stars who became famous in the 1920s at the outset of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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- Another movement of the era, Precisionism, focused on images of urban industrial America.
- In architecture and design, the 1930s was the height of the Art Deco - an eclectic style inspired by industrialization that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials.
- 1930 marks the beginning of what is considered to be the 'golden age' of Hollywood, a period which lasted through the 1940s.
- A lasting example of the studio influence was
the Motion Picture (or Hollywood) Production Code of 1930 (known also as the Hays Code, after Will H.
- Careers of some of the iconic Hollywood's performers also flourished in the 1930s, including Greta Garbo, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Mae West,
the Marx Brothers, Errol Flynn (best known for his role as Robin Hood), or child star Shirley Temple.
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- The 1920s (known as the "Jazz Age")
witnessed the transformation of jazz from its modest African American/New Orleans origin to a global phenomenon.
- The 1930s were the era of the immense popularity of radio.
- 1930 marks the beginning
of what is considered to be the 'golden age' of Hollywood, a period which
lasted through the 1940s.
- A lasting example of
the studio influence was the Motion Picture (or Hollywood) Production Code of
1930 (known also as the Hays Code, after Will H.
- Careers of some of
the iconic Hollywood's performers also flourished in the 1930s, including Greta
Garbo, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Mae West, the Marx Brothers, Errol Flynn
(best known for his role as Robin Hood), or child star Shirley Temple.
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- Art Deco, which emerged in the 1920s and flourished in the 1930s - 1940s, is an eclectic style that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials.
- Emerging during the Interwar period when rapid industrialization was transforming culture, one of the major attributes of Art Deco was its embrace of technology.
- Streamline Moderne was a concept first created by industrial designers, who stripped Art Deco design of its ornament in favor of the aerodynamic pure-line concept of motion and speed developed from scientific thinking.
- An array of designers quickly ultra-modernized and streamlined the designs of everyday objects, such as toasters.
- The Hollywood Palladium (in Hollywood, CA) was a dance hall built in the 1940s in the Streamline Moderne style.
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- The prosperity of the Gupta Empire produced a golden age of
cultural and scientific advancements.
- This period became known as the Golden Age of India because it was marked by
extensive inventions and discoveries in science, technology, engineering, art,
dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy
that crystallized elements of what is generally considered Hindu culture.
- Other scholars of the Golden Age helped create the first Indian
numeral systems with a base of 10.
- The cultural creativity of the Golden Age of India produced magnificent
architecture, including palaces and temples, as well as sculptures and paintings
of the highest quality.
- The Golden Age of India
produced many temples, decorated with various sculptures and paintings, such as
the Dashavatara Temple, also known as the Vishnu Temple, in central India.
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- During the Gilded Age, free time and disposable income were spent on new forms of leisure like amusement parks, burlesque, dime museums, and Vaudeville shows.
- During the Gilded Age, many Americans began working fewer hours and had more disposable income.
- The American Gilded Age was, in fact, the Golden Age of amusement parks that reigned until the late 1920s.
- A number of producers sought to capitalize on nostalgia for the entertainment by attempting to recreate the spirit of burlesque in Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1960s.
- Analyze amusements and entertainments from the Gilded Age through the end of the 1930s
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- He subsequently signed the
Emergency Tariff of 1921 and the Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922 to ease the
economic suffering of domestic producers such as farmers.
- Harlem also
played a key role in the development of dance styles and the popularity of
dance clubs.
- The
"Golden Age of Radio" began after World War I with the first radio
news program in Detroit on August 31, 1920, followed by the appearance of the first
commercial station in Pittsburgh that same year.
- Hollywood
also boomed during this period, producing a new form of entertainment that shut
down the old Vaudeville theatres – the silent film.
- Silent movie star Rudolph Valentino was one of Hollywood's first sex symbols, starring in films such as The Sheik before his untimely death at age 31 in 1926.
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- Athens attained its Golden Age under Pericles in the fifth century BCE and flourished culturally as the hegemonic power of the Hellenic world.
- The fifth century BCE was a period of Athenian political hegemony, economic growth and cultural flourishing sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Athens.
- The latter part of this time period is often called The Age of Pericles.
- With the empire's funds, military dominance, and its political fortunes as guided by statesman and orator Pericles, Athens produced some of the most influential and enduring cultural artifacts of Western tradition during what became known as the Golden Age of Athenian democracy, or the Age of Pericles.
- Pericles was
arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator, and
general of Athens during its Golden Age.
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- The Spanish Golden Age is a period of flourishing in arts, coinciding with the political rise and decline of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty.
- The Spanish Golden Age is a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain, coinciding with the Baroque era and the political rise and decline of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty.
- Religion in the Art of the Spanish Golden Age: Francisco de Zurbarán
- The mysticism of Zurbarán's work—influenced by Saint Theresa of Avila—became a hallmark of Spanish art in later generations.
- His paintings of St.
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- Abbasid leadership cultivated intellectual, cultural, and scientific developments in the Islamic Golden Age.
- During the Golden Age, the major Islamic capital cities of Baghdad, Cairo, and Córdoba became the main intellectual centers for science, philosophy, medicine, and education.
- Ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, illuminated manuscripts, and woodwork flourished during the Islamic Golden Age.
- Scholars developed large encyclopedias of medical knowledge during the Islamic Golden Age, such as this one from a manuscript dated circa 1200.
- Identify the causes of, and developments during, the Islamic Golden Age