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  • TK266
    TK266 Posts: 3,689 Member
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    1924 Movie: The Navigator with Buster Keaton ... classic
  • mgsamuel
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    1925 Movie:
    Body and Soul - Starring Paul Robeson and directed by Oscar Micheaux.

    • "Body and Soul" was Paul Robeson’s first film role and the only movie that he made with an
    African-American director.

    • "Body and Soul" is one of the few African-American silent films still in existence today.

    • The director of this film, Oscar Micheaux, is the first African-American to produce a feature-length film.
  • 0AmyMarie0
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    1926 Movie -

    The General

    When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines.
  • PBmaria
    PBmaria Posts: 854 Member
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    1927-Metropolis!
  • mgsamuel
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    1926 Movie:
    Son of the Shiek - Starring Rudolph Valentino. It was Valentino's final film.

    1927 Movie:
    The Jazz Singer - Starring Al Jolson. The first feature-length motion picture with sound.
  • Crying_In_Color
    Crying_In_Color Posts: 246 Member
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    1928 Amelia Earhart flew across the Atlantic.
  • ArtGeek22
    ArtGeek22 Posts: 1,429 Member
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    1929 - The stock market crashed.
  • 0AmyMarie0
    0AmyMarie0 Posts: 315
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    Movie - 1930

    The Marx Brothers - Animal Crackers


    For those that didn't read the whole thread, we're doing movies now!
  • TK266
    TK266 Posts: 3,689 Member
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    1931 Dracula, Bella Legosi
  • dragonfly74
    dragonfly74 Posts: 1,382 Member
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    1932 "Scarface"
  • TK266
    TK266 Posts: 3,689 Member
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    1933 Duck Soup with the marx brothers another classic
  • ScientistStudy
    ScientistStudy Posts: 249 Member
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    1934 Adolph Hitler expands German army and Navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
  • mgsamuel
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    1934 Movie:
    Imitation of Life - with Louise Beavers and Claudette Colbert

    This movie is based on the book, "Imitation of Life", by Fannie Hurst. The 1934 movie "Imitation of Life" was very controversial in the Black community because there were strongly different opinions about Delilah's (one of the main charcters) daughter's decision to pass for white.

    • "Imitation of Life" was nominated for three 1935 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Assistant Director (Scott R. Beal)
    and Best Sound

    • "Imitation of Life" was also selected in 2005 to the Library of Congress National Film Registry
  • Captain_Mal
    Captain_Mal Posts: 945 Member
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    I think James Joyce's Ulysses would be more fitting for 1934.

    1935 --- Monopoly goes on sale for the first time.
  • DMZ_1
    DMZ_1 Posts: 2,889 Member
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    1936-Jesse Owens wins 4 Gold Medals at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Adolf Hitler did not acknowledge Owens' accomplishment, as Owens was an African American, a non Aryan.
  • soccermoma11
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    1937
    Amelia Earhart goes missing

    On June 1st Amelia Earhart and her flight navigator Fred Noonan take off from Miami attempting a round-the-world flight.
    At midnight GMT on the July 2nd after travelling 22,000 miles they take off from Lae, New Guinea for the final 7,000 miles, 1st stop would be Howland Island in the Pacific.
    The last recorded radio broadcast from Amelia Earhart was at 8:43 am stated "We are on the line 157 337" , she was never heard from again
  • dogacreek
    dogacreek Posts: 289 Member
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    1938

    Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds broadcast which suggested to listeners that the world was being invaded by martian aliens. :huh:
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
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    1939

    One of my all time favorite movies - The Wizard of Oz - was released.
  • pullipgirl
    pullipgirl Posts: 767 Member
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    1940 Feb 7, Walt Disney 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premiered in NYC.
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
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    1941 movie-

    Citizen Kane - Starring Orsen Welles

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