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Life in the 1920s
Life in the 1920s
Agenda
 Movies
 Fashion
 Music
 Slang
 Art
 Inventions
 Gangs
The Movies
The Age of Cinema
 The 1920’s saw the
birth of modern
cinema in Hollywood,
California.
 Beginning with silent
films, by the mid
1920s a huge and
profitable movie
industry was created!
The Cinema
 As films improved, their
production became more
complex, being
manufactured in
assembly-line style, in
Hollywood's
'entertainment factories.’
 By the end of the decade
movies were now being
made with sound. This
was a revolutionary
invention that changed
the way we watch movies
today!
Cinema
Do you notice any
similarities
between the two
films?
Mary Pickford
 Mary Pickford (April 8,
1892 – May 29, 1979) was a
Canadian-born motion picture
actress, co-founder of the film
studio United Artists. Known
as "America's Sweetheart,"
"Little Mary" and "The girl
with the curls," she a Canadian
pioneer in Hollywood and the
development of film acting.
 One of the first modern female
celebrities, she set the
standard for future
generations of actresses and
stars.
Fashion
End of the Victorian Age
 Women in the Victorian
era wore clothes that
covered most of their
bodies and had corsets to
make their waists smaller
and curvier.
 Notice the long skirt,
long arms, and large hats
 They also had long hair
that was always pinned
up.
The “Wasp-waist”
Women’s Fashion
 In contrast to the
Victorian Woman the
Women of the 1920’s
tended to wear dresses
that had short sleeves,
shorter hems and smaller
hats.
 They also tended to not
wear anything with
corsets or form fitting.
The Flapper
 The Flapper is an iconic
symbol of the 1920’s.
 Women cut their hair,
wore a lot more make-up
 Accessories were also a big
deal, long strings of pearls
were necessary as were
feathers and headbands
 The flapper dress tended
to be very ‘boxy’ and not
show off any curves at all.
They could also be covered
in tassels.
The Masculine Look
 Many women
attempted to ‘hide’
their femininity by
dressing more
masculine.
 This women is
wearing a tie and a
bowler hat which were
traditionally worn by
men.
The “Bob”
Women in the 1920s also
cut off all their hair,
opting for shorter styles.
The bob became an
overnight sensation as
well as short pin curls.
This was far different
from the traditional
longer pinned up
Victorian era.
Hats of the 1920s
Men’s Fashion
 Men tended to wear
three piece suits
with ties.
 They also wore
bowler, fedora and
or straw hats with
wing tipped shoes.
The Gangster Look
 This timeless
look for men
symbolizes the
‘gangster’
identity that is
seen in many
movies depicting
this era.
Music of the 1920s
The Birth of Jazz
 By the mid-1920s, jazz was
being played in dance halls
and speakeasies all over the
country. Early jazz became
popular with marching
bands and dance bands of
the day, which was the most
popular concert music in the
early twentieth century.
 Without early jazz today’s
music would not exist. This
jazz allowed music to evolve
into days Rap, Dance and
Rock!
The Era of Jazz
 Radio and phonograph
records were bringing jazz
to remote places.
 And the music itself slowly
changed, becoming more
free and lively under gifted
musicians.
 Improvising soloists,
struggling to find their own
voices and to tell their own
stories, were about to take
center stage.
Robert Nathaniel Dett
 Robert Nathaniel Dett
(October 11, 1882 –
October 2, 1943), was a
composer in the USA and
Canada. During his lifetime
he was one of the most
successful black
composers, known for his
use of folk songs and
spiritual music.
 Dett was born in
Drummondville, Ontario
where he studied piano at
an early age and formal
piano lessons at age five.
Duke Ellington
 Edward Kennedy "Duke"
Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May
24, 1974) was a composer, pianist,
and big band leader. Ellington
wrote over 1,000 compositions
 Due to his inventive use of the
orchestra, or big band, and thanks
to his charisma, he is considered to
have made jazz an art form equal
with other genres of music.
 Ellington's orchestra began its stint
at Harlem's famous Cotton Club in
1927, providing music for stage
routines where scantily dressed
black dancers performed for an
exclusively white audience.
Louis Armstrong
 Louis Daniel Armstrong
(August 4, 1901 – July 6,
1971), nicknamed Satchmo or
Pops, was an American jazz
trumpeter and singer from
New Orleans, Louisiana.
 Becoming famous as an
"inventive" cornet and
trumpet player, Armstrong
shifted the focus of jazz
towards solo performance
 Note: You may know Louis
Armstrong from his hit song
“What a wonderful world”
What do you notice
about all these jazz
artists??
Slang
Art
The Group of Seven
 Perhaps best known of all
Canada’s artists, the Group
of Seven came together in
1920 as an group of
“modern” painters. They
painted Canada’s rugged
north using strong, deep
colours, which differed
from the realistic paintings
of the time. Many
Canadians were shocked by
their bold, fresh style, and
those who criticised this
non-conformist type of
painting called it the “hot
mush school.
“The West Wind,” Tom Thompson
The Group of Seven
 The original members of the Group
of Seven – J.E.H. MacDonald,
Lawren Harris, Franklin
Carmichael, Arthur Lismer, F.H.
Varley, A.Y. Jackson, and Franz
Johnston – travelled in small
groups in northern Ontario with
their easels and sketch pads
painting and sketching scenes of
nature. They had similar styles
and were influenced by their friend
Tom Thompson who died in a
mysterious boating accident in
1917.
 A whole new style of art emerged
during the 1920s that was
distinctly Canadian and added to
an emerging sense of Canadian
identity and nationalism.
Breaking Down the Seven
1. Describe what you see.
What is this image of?
2. Where do you think this
mountain is found?
3. Does this give us a good
impression of the
qualities Canadian
landscape and identity?
4. Is anything MISSING?
Breaking Down the Seven
Where are the
First Nations
represented?
Emily Carr
 Born in Victoria, British
Columbia, Emily Carr
(1871-1945) was an
unofficial member of the
Group of Seven
 While a classically
trained in England, Carr
experimented with many
styles, eventually
focusing on First Nations
traditions late in her
career.
“Above the Gravel Pit”
“Big Raven”
Emily Carr
 As a woman, Carr broke
away from the domestic
life and traditional
expectations of her
gender.
 Unlike the Group of
Seven, her later art
focused on First Nations
traditions and the impact
of western society on the
landscape.
Emily Carr
Blunden Harbour, c.1930
Kwakwaka'wakw Village of
Ba'a's (Blunden Harbour),
1901
Emily Carr on Aboriginal Art
“Indian art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal
tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its
bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's
understanding. I was as Canadian-born as the
Indian but behind me were Old World heredity and
ancestry as well as the Canadian environment. The
new West called me, but my Old World heredity, the
flavour of my upbringing, pulled me back. I had
been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to
pierce.”
-Emily Carr
Inventions
The Radio
 The radio first became
available to families in
the 1920s. Called crystal
sets, they were cheap and
helped to connected
people in remote areas to
the rest of the country.
 Lectures, concerts and
news were broadcasted
as the radio helped to
spread information and
ideas.
The Automobile
 By the 1920s Canada was
becoming a nation of
drivers. In 1920, there was
one car to every 22
Canadians. 10 years later
there was one car for every
8 people.
 Ford had been the first
company to start making
cars in Canada. Many
families owned a Model-T
Ford. The average
Canadian selling price went
from $900 in 1921 to $700
five years later.
The Automobile
 These 1920s cars had to
be hand-cranked to start,
and they did not have a
heater. Such luxuries as
adjustable seats, brake
lights, and foot pedals for
acceleration were added
later. Before anti-freeze
was used, most people
parked their cars for the
winter and did not drive
at all.
The Automobile
 As more people drove,
roads and highways were
paved for a smoother
ride and gas stations
popped up.
 These early cars could go
as fast as 64km/hr!
The Automobile
 Above all else, cars allowed people to travel!.
Automobiles allowed farmers to come to town to
shop and sell their goods and caused rapid growth of
the Suburbs because people could live farther away
from where they worked. Friends and relatives could
visit each other regularly. The automobile made
summer cottages easy to reach and let young people
with more freedom to date whom they pleased.
The Discovery of Insulin
 Canadian researchers
contributed much in the
field of medicine. Fredrick
Banting and Charles Best
discovered insulin, which
improved the lives of
diabetics worldwide.
 Although not a cure for
Diabetes, insulin corrects
the blood sugar level for
patients Until insulin was
made available, a diagnosis
of diabetes was an
invariable death sentence
Gangsters