1920's

1920's

Theme: George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

Pictures:

1) sheet music for Rhapsody in Blue, a musical composition written by Gershwin in 1924.
2) "The Jazz age" movie poster from 1929.
3) a postard from Seattle (art deco style).
4) typical 1920's flapper.
5) Cotton Club.
6) "The Musician", painting by Tamara de Lempicka (art deco style).
7) 1920's prohibition of alcohol.
8) "Metropolis" - movie poster from 1927.
9) poster which pokes fun of the boyish flapper movement.
10, 11, 12) pictures connected with Wall Street Crash from 1929.
13) Charles Lindbergh, first man to fly across Atlantic using a plane called "Spirit of St. Louis" (1927).
14) discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt (Howard Carter - 1922).
15) "KDKA" - Pittsburg-based, first radio station in the USA. Radio becomes entertainment for masses.
16) John Logie Baird - inventor of television. Here with his "televisor" around 1925.
17) discovery of penicillin by Alexander Flemming in 1928. Here, penicillin core structure.
18) Albert Szent-Györgyi works on isolating vitamin c begin in 1928, end in 1933. Here, ascorbic acid structure.
19) Mickey Mouse is created (1928). Here in cartoon "Steamboat Willie".
20) Stutz Motor car ad form 1926.
21, 22) The jazz singer - the first motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences from 1927.

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[TheMoviefan1996]

The 1920's Was Roaring.

[thelonelyslayer]

cute.

[masketkiller101]

Were is the battle of Warsaw it stopped the communist take over of europe...

[yes4albert]

Very well done.