Movies are evolving every day, but some may wonder what movies were like before today, perhaps movies in the 1920s may help give an idea of what that was like. Movies are things that people watch to get away from their own life. What kind of movies people watch can show how they feel or how they would like to feel. When movies start to change to become better and better, the more likely people would want to watch to get away from their own life for a little while. Movies gave the world a new way to live in the 1920’s.
In the 1920’s silent movies were the biggest thing to happen. In spite the fact that they are called silent movies they weren’t always necessarily silent. As said, “Silent Movies were accompanied by music that conveyed the drama and emotion of each scene. The music was played on a piano or an organ”(Alchin). Then it was known when you went to …show more content…
Nevertheless silent movies started way before the 1920’s, they didn’t really start being a big hit till the 1920’s and they ended in the late 1920’s when the first talking movie came out. Before movies were called movies they were called talkies due to movies just starting to have actual dialogue in them. This was a big turnabout for movies, movies were becoming a part of a social movement. Movies were known for giving people dreams and new realities.
When sound came into movies, some people were ecstatic for it while others not so much. Since talkies came out it no longer needed music throughout the showing.Which around that time wasn’t very good because America was about to go into The Great Depression. As stated, “Talking films also hurt the careers of the many orchestra musicians who provided the live score to many of the original silent movies.The speech and voices of certain actors also proved to be a difficult hurdle for many studios to overcome”(Talking Motion Pictures). This had made a bunch of people go into unemployment due to
In the 1920’s silent movies were the biggest thing to happen. In spite the fact that they are called silent movies they weren’t always necessarily silent. As said, “Silent Movies were accompanied by music that conveyed the drama and emotion of each scene. The music was played on a piano or an organ”(Alchin). Then it was known when you went to …show more content…
Nevertheless silent movies started way before the 1920’s, they didn’t really start being a big hit till the 1920’s and they ended in the late 1920’s when the first talking movie came out. Before movies were called movies they were called talkies due to movies just starting to have actual dialogue in them. This was a big turnabout for movies, movies were becoming a part of a social movement. Movies were known for giving people dreams and new realities.
When sound came into movies, some people were ecstatic for it while others not so much. Since talkies came out it no longer needed music throughout the showing.Which around that time wasn’t very good because America was about to go into The Great Depression. As stated, “Talking films also hurt the careers of the many orchestra musicians who provided the live score to many of the original silent movies.The speech and voices of certain actors also proved to be a difficult hurdle for many studios to overcome”(Talking Motion Pictures). This had made a bunch of people go into unemployment due to