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Kurt Schwitters- Opened by Customs, 1937

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Winold Reiss -Interpretation of Harlem jazz, 1925

RTC- denotes all files to do with this project Roaring Twenties Cocktails
RTC Splash Screen ( plays when DVD is inserted and morphs into Main Screen) RTC_splash_images RTC Main Screen RTC_main_source RTC_main_images RTC_main_music 1920s Music = RTC_20s_music_source Life in the 20s = RTC_20s_timeline RTC_20s_time_images_01, 02, 03 etc RTC_20s_time_music Life in the 20s - RTC_20s_nightlife_source_images RTC_20s_nightlife_source_screen recs RTC_20s_nightlife_source music RTC_20s_nightlife_edit RTC Cocktails The Sidecar = RTC_ct_sidecar RTC_ct_sidecar_source RTC_ct_sidecar_script RTC_ct_sidecar_image RTC_ct_sidecar_vid RTC_ct_sidecar_vid_source RTC_ct_sidecar_vid_final edit French 75 = RTC_ct_french75 RTC_ct_french75_source RTC_ct_french75_script RTC_ct_french75_image RTC_ct_french75_vid RTC_ct_sidecar_vid_source RTC_ct_sidecar_vid_final edit The 12 Mile Limit = RTC_ct_12mile RTC_ct_12mile_source RTC_ct_12mile_script RTC_ct_12mile_image RTC_ct_12mile_vid RTC_ct_12mile_vid_source RTC_ct_12mile_vid_final edit The Mary Pickford = RTC_ct_mary RTC_ct_mary_source RTC_ct_mary_script RTC_ct_mary_image RTC_ct_mary_vid RTC_ct_mary_vid_source RTC_ct_mary_vid_final edit The Scofflaw = RTC_ct_scoff RTC_ct_scoff_source RTC_ct_scoff_script RTC_ct_scoff_image RTC_ct_scoff_vid RTC_ct_scoff_vid_source RTC_ct_scoff_vid_final edit The Monkey Gland = RTC_ct_tmg RTC_ct_tmg_source RTC_ct_tmg_script RTC_ct_tmg_image RTC_ct_tmg_vid RTC_ct_tmg_vid_source RTC_ct_tmg_vid_final edit The Colony Cocktail = RTC_ct_colony RTC_ct_colony_source RTC_ct_colony_script RTC_ct_colony_image RTC_ct_colony_vid RTC_ct_colony_vid_source RTC_ct_colony_vid_final edit RTC Treatment Doc includes

RTC_aims&objectives RTC_rationale RTC_structure RTC_structure w/media RTC_content RTC_Background/source info RTC_target audience RTC_tech spec RTC_prod resources RTC_budget RTC_file naming
**When sketchbook work, graphics, animation, VO, music, fx, source material or text refers to a specific screen they will have that file referenced in their nameseg. RTC_ct_colony_vid_title screen RTC_ct_colony_vid_music RTC_ct_colony_vid_VO RTC_ct_colony_sketch etc etc etc

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Art Deco City- Unknown

Necessary Production Equipment HDCAM x 3 Digital camera tripod x 3 Film Lighting x 3 Digital SLR Camera x 1 Digital photographic tripod x 1 Digital Audio recording equipment - mini-disc recorder w/mic Studio space suitable for audio recording & filming

Necessary Computing equipment and Software Apple Mac OS X 2 x 2.66 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon 6GB 1066 MHz DDR3 USB Key Portable Harddrive w/1 terabyte free memory -Google Chrome -Adobe photoshop -Adobe Illustrator -Adobe Flash -Adobe In-Design MS Word MS Excel -Final Cut Pro -Soundcut Pro High-Quality printer

Miscellaneous Cocktail Ingredients Product (dvd) Testers x 5 Stationary supplies, scissors, glue, paper etc 1 attractive human who can mix cocktails professionally DVD-Rs

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Technical Specifications

Media Quantification

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Francis Picabia- Parade Amoureuse, 1917

Aspect ratio: 16:9, 1024 X 576. Region: PAL Sound: Stereo Running Time: tbc Language: English Colour: Full Colour and B&W Delivery Platform: DVD player + monitor

Images to be photographed 14 Images to be gathered tbc Video without sound 7 (duration 1min each) Video stop/start cutout animations -7 (duration 30secs max) VO x 7 Video using existing footage- edited for purpose (duration 10mins) VO x 1 Flash Animation 1 Text blurbs 7

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Yves Tanguy- The storm, 1926

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Rene Magritte- The False Mirror, 1928

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Max Ernst- Stratified Rocks, 1920

Prototype Evaluation
As no prototype exists at this stage, I had the user evaluate the screen interfaces by examining a screen print of each. The User did not have to interect until the main page, he enjoyed the splash screen and raised a concern that this would play each time. This splash will only play once upon initialising the dvd but it will not play every time the user returns to the Main Screen. He enjoyed the imagery and commented that the design was unique and interesting. When interacting with the cocktail screen the user remarked that it was pretty straightforward, since it is a linear choice menu, he did ask if the cocktail info will be displayed, I explained my plan to have the info displayed clearly as a pop up in the forescreen. The user is looking forward to seeing the cocktail videos when they are complete and liked my ideas for them. When it came to the Life in the 20s screen, there was no issue at all, The 2 buttons were clear to the user, once again, he is ,looking forward to watching the timeline and the 20s doc. The Music screen had a great reception, the user loved the design and thought the functionality was fine, most users are very used to the playlist format. He especially liked having 2 channels- Pop and Jazz and the ability to play all tracks continuously was a good feature. Overall, the user did not have any negative experiences when using my prototype, on paper at least, it may be a different story when it comes to the physical version. He did express concern that there will be a link to volume and back to the main screen- which there will be.

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Background

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Andre Masson -Underground Figure, 1924

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Archibald v Motley Jr- Saturday Night(1935)

The story of (scripts)

Each of these short dialogues contain information about the origins of each drink. They will be cut out and filmed in a start stop motion treatment, each scene will last approx 30secs max and will act as an intro before the main feature-makingthe cocktail.

The Monkey Gland

The lost generation-3 of them, Gertrude Stein, Hemmingway, Picasso Caf in paris- all drinking absinthe, glowing green glasses, rest b&w H- Waddya call this hooch again Gertie? Im tasting the magic of the green fairy, along with orange juice and what else is that(tastes thoughtfully) G- Gin, my fine fellow, Its a called a monkey gland Ernest (sips) P-Yes, I know of this doctor, - Serge Vonoroff, he , how do you saygrafted monkey testicles to humans, he try to make virile the man!! G- Imagine that! What an exquisite way to create art, the very essence, the primal.(about to go on a rant) H- (hrrmph-grumpily) the only good thing to come out of that Docotors mad business is this here drink! (he finishes the glass)

The Sidecar

4 flappers dancing, all holding the same drinks f1- say sugar, this hooch is yum, whats in it? F2-just a little cognac, orange liqeur and lemon juice, Gus makes the perfect Sidecar F3-a Sidecar, funny name huh? F4- Oh doll, if you only knew the major, he was a real shiek, but in the end he was a real flat tire. Sure when I saw him being chauffered around in that sidecar he seemed rather dapper, but it takes more than dapper to get this chassis into an old jalopy, I can tell ya. F1- Well this drink sure is tasty, at least theres that.

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12 Mile Limit

Boat rowing out to a bigger boat, 2 passengers silhouetted from back in foreground facing man rowing. Boat in distance moves closer gradually throughout the scene, audio of party in distance is very very faint. Mostly calm water sounds, wooden clunking of oars. Man1- Sure is a long way out to this gin mill, this deep water gives me the heebie jeebies Man 2- 12 miles- thats the limit, thats where the law stops and were free to get ossified Man1 (laughs) now youve got it! Whats the hooch like? Man2- aw the joint is filled with molls and bimbos, everyone in their glad rags, dancing, hitting on all sixes! Well drink 12mile limits to celebrate, a fabulous concoction, Rum, whiskey, brandy, grenadine, and lemon juice. Man1-Haha, sounds spiffy. Well be putting on the ritz Boat rows off into the distance to the boat thats lit up and audio increases.

Colony Cocktail

Colony speakeasy- glamorous people Lady-(looks around) well so this is the famous Colony, its really something Man- why Cynthia, I just cant wait anymore- I think youre the bees knees, the cats pyjamas, why Im just goofy for you, especially when I see you all dolled up like this, you sure do have some damn fine gams Lady (blushes) oh hush Wilfred, (looks around-whispers conspiratorially) say do you think we could get some giggle water in this joint? Man-(nods) Baby, They serve the most splendid drink here, gin, grapefruit and cherry liqueur, I just gotta send the nod to Marco the bartender and hell fix us up right my dear. (smiles) (cocktails arrive) Man- this drink is so special it doesnt even have a name. Lady- It does now- its the colony cocktail Both laugh.

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French 75

Speakeasy door-slot open, eyes clearly visable, back of mans head is silhouetted Man- say joe, would ya let me in. whats eating you? Joe- aww dry up, would ya? I aint letting you in coz I hadda give you the bums rush outta here at 5oclock this morning, now, I dont need you here hassling the dolls and thinking youre the big cheese when you aint. Man- aww, cmon Joe, be a pal. Joe- Yeah, you know what, You need a French 75 , yeah, itd be the cats miaow, gin and lemon and champagne, yeah, itd be right up your ally Man- well, lemme in then Joe (whiney) Joe- xcept I wasnt referring to the drink, I was referring to the gun its named after, a sweet little number we used in the war, powerful and smooth, like the drink, yeah and youre gonna need yourself a French 75, coz the only way youre getting through this door is if you shoot it down, now get lost would ya? Youre drawing attention to the joint! (peephole slams)

The Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford and her hubby sitting on the yacht Mary- Oh dahling, Wasnt it romatic the glamorous splendor of the bars in London and Paris and zipping off to Havana for an evening of cocktails. Douglas- It was the bees knees sweetheart, it certainly was. (not listening, eyes towards a man passing) Mary- Oh dahling, when can we go again? Why I could do with a little giggle water right about now, like they made in Havana, rum, pineapple, cherry liquer, it sure was the bees knees! (sighs dreamily) Douglas- (pays attention at last) well then my little lady, you shall have one, and we shall call it the Mary pickford dahling, after you, the most wonderful actress in Hollywood. Mary-(flutters her eyelashes and falls over the railings with a splash) Douglas shrugs and turns to a deckhand.

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The Scofflaw
(Vintage Radio, fireside ambience- Warren Fox hosts the twilight cocktail hourGood evening Ladies and Gentlemen thank you for tuning in and welcome to the twilight cocktail hour. ) Fantastic news from this evenings Boston Globe where the winners of their competition for two hundred dollars! The challenge was to make up a new word to describe one who flouts these new killjoy laws of ours, Scofflaw, ladies and gentlemen, is the winning word. I, myself am a proud, scofflaw, as you might call it. The word is that Harrys bar in gay paree has begun serving a spiffy new beverage in honour of this new addition to our vocabulary, its made with whiskey, vermouth, bitters, grenadine, mmMMM sounds like the cats pyjamas..hmmmm, think I might run down to my local juice joint later and get Gus to knock me up one of those.....ab-so-lutely! But for now, my brave thirsty souls, its you and I on this dark evening and well now listen to. (song plays and continues over the making of scene (song here will play through the making of video.)

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Life in the 20s (script)

This is a first draft for a documentary that covers the shift in culture that occured between 1920 and 1929. The footage will be video/film based with still images interspersed. The Dialogue will be voiced over. The script is very rigid at the moment. I would like to produce another version that will have a more conversational tone, not as formal, however the information will stay the same.

With the conclusion of WWI came an end to wartime frugality and conservation. In an era of peace, Americans experienced an economic boom, as well as a change in social morays. Nicknamed The Roaring 20s for its dynamic changes, the decade became known for its celebration of excess and its rejection of wartime ideologies. Americans also began investing more time and money in leisure activities and artistic endeavors. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nations total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, and this economic growth swept many Americans into an affluent but unfamiliar consumer society. People from coast to coast bought the same goods (thanks to nationwide advertising and the spread of chain stores), listened to the same music, did the same dances and even used the same slang! Many Americans were uncomfortable with this new, urban, sometimes racy mass culture; in fact, for manyeven mostpeople in the United States, the 1920s brought more conflict than celebration. However, for a small handful of young people in the nations big cities, the 1920s were roaring indeed. Because of the sudden economic boom many Americans had extra money to spend, and they spent it on consumer goods such as ready-to-wear clothes and home appliances like electric refrigerators. In particular, they bought radios. The first commercial radio station in the U.S., Pittsburghs KDKA, hit

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the airwaves in 1920; three years later there were more than 500 stations in the nation. By the end of the 1920s, there were radios in more than 12 million households. People also went to the movies: Historians estimate that, by the end of the decades, three-quarters of the American population visited a movie theatre every week. But the most important consumer product of the 1920s was the automobile. Low prices and generous credit made cars affordable luxuries at the beginning of the decade; by the end, they were practically necessities. In 1929 there was one car on the road for every five Americans. Meanwhile, an economy of automobiles was born: Businesses like service stations and motels sprang up to meet drivers needs. Increased wages and lower cost vehicles through mass production made cars increasingly affordable, although 3 out of 4 cars were bought on installment plans. The car enabled people to travel much further field than foot or horse had permitted. Touring vacations became popular, but motorists had to plan carefully as there were often long distances between petrol stations and breakdowns were fairly common. Car advertisements became more sophisticated as copywriters employed psychology. Previously, ads had focused on specifications, engine horsepower, and features - but the late 1920s ushered in the style of advertising that appealed to peoples emotions rather than intellect. Automobile manufacturers also targeted women drivers by advertising in womens magazines and by making cars more appealing to women. They did this by increasing the range of colors, improving the quality and style of upholstery and interior linings, and by making cars easier to drive and maintain. Many of the car paint colors and color schemes were based on English horse-drawn coach livery, and even chauffeur driven car designs resembled horse-drawn coaches. Never before had cars been so colorful and attractive, with flowing curves and rakish lines. Comfort levels improved with the introduction of heaters, balloon tires, and improved suspensions including better shock absorbers. By the 1920s, many Americans had grown tired of war and constant attempts at reform, including numerous attempts to pass moral legislation. People wanted an end to labour problems and racial strife, less immigration, conservative politics, a return to Christian values, and less government interference in their lives. Many people longed for a simpler way of life. Warren G. Hardings policy of a return to normalcy was an attempt to capitalize on this populist feeling. To many middle-class white Americans, Prohibition was a way to assert some control over the unruly immigrant masses that crowded the nations cities. Drinking was a symbol of all they disliked about the modern city, and eliminating alcohol would, they

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believed, turn back the clock to an earlier and more comfortable time. During the 1920s, some freedoms were expanded while others were curtailed. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1919, had banned the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, and at 12 A.M. on January 16, 1920, the federal Volstead Act closed every tavern, bar and saloon in the United States. From then on, it was illegal to sell any intoxication beverages with more than 0.5% alcohol. This drove the liquor trade undergroundnow, people simply went to nominally illegal speakeasies instead of ordinary barswhere bootleggers, racketeers and other organized-crime figures controlled it. Prohibition presented lucrative opportunities for organized crime to take over the importing (bootlegging), manufacturing, and distributing of alcoholic drinks. Al Capone, one of the most infamous bootleggers of them all, was able to build his criminal empire largely on profits from illegal alcohol. (Capone reportedly had 1,000 gunmen and half of Chicagos police force on his payroll.) Many women, notably the Womens Christian Temperance Union, had been pivotal in bringing about national Prohibition in the United States of America, believing it would protect families, women and children from the effects of abuse of alcohol. Even though the sale of alcohol was illegal, alcoholic drinks were still widely available at speakeasies and other underground drinking establishments. Many people also kept private bars to serve their guests. Large quantities of alcohol were smuggled in from Canada, overland and via the Great Lakes. While the government cracked down on alcohol consumption on land it was a different story on the water where they argued that ships outside the 3-mile limit were exempt. Needless to say, everyone including the State owned shipping line exploited this technicality. Even after the law was expanded to a 12-mile limit, it had no impact. Legal and illegal home brewing was popular during Prohibition. Limited amounts of wine and hard cider were permitted to be made at home. Some commercial wine was still produced in the U.S., but was only available through government warehouses for use in religious ceremonies, mainly for communion. Malt and hop stores popped up across the country and some former breweries turned to selling malt extract syrup, ostensibly for baking and beverage purposes.

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 Whiskey could be obtained by prescription from medical doctors. The labels clearly warned that it was strictly for medicinal purposes and any other uses were illegal, but even so doctors freely wrote prescriptions and drug stores filled them without question, so the number of patients increased dramatically. No attempt was made to stop this practice; so many people got their booze this way. Over a million gallons were consumed per year through freely given prescriptions. Because Prohibition banned only the manufacturing, sale, and transport - but not possession or consuming of alcohol, some people and institutions who had bought or made liquor prior to the passage of the 18th Amendment were able to continue to serve it throughout the prohibition period legally. During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. Instead, Alcohol became more dangerous to consume; organized crime blossomed; courts and prisons systems became overloaded; and endemic corruption of police and public officials occurred. Even prominent citizens and politicians later admitted to having used alcohol during Prohibition. President Harding kept the White House well stocked with bootleg liquor, though, as a Senator, he had voted for Prohibition. This discrepancy between legality and actual practice led to widespread contempt for authority. Over time, more people drank illegally and so money ended up in gangsters pockets. Arguments raged over the effectiveness of prohibition. It appears to have been successful in some parts of the country but overall led to an increase in lawlessness. Up until the early 1900s the pace of change in American lifestyles had been relatively slow with most people experiencing a similar lifestyle to what their preceding generations had also followed. The rate of change started to accelerate in the early 1900s as new influences had an effect that reached even the further most parts of the country. This had the effect of creating a new countrywide culture in the early twentieth century. The movies, radio shows, sophisticated advertising, and popular magazines all had an influence on the lives of 1920s youth who saw themselves as different from the older generation. Young people began to model themselves on movie and sports stars who represented a glamorous new age, but they also took on many of the negative traits of their idols like smoking, bad language, immorality, and selfishness. And so the new youth culture manifested itself as the flapper and sheik.

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 The most familiar symbol of the Roaring Twenties is probably the flapper: a young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked and said what might be termed unladylike things, in addition to being more sexually free than previous generations. Contemporary descriptions of the flapper described them ; Then you have the real modern American flapper: Two bare knees, two thinner stockings, one shorter skirt, two lipsticks, three powder puffs, 132 cigarettes, and three boy friends, with eight flasks between them. In reality, most young women in the 1920s did none of these things (though many did adopt a fashionable flapper wardrobe), but even those women who were not flappers gained some unprecedented freedoms. They could vote at last: The 19th Amendment to the Constitution had guaranteed that right in 1920. Millions of women worked in white-collar jobs (as stenographers, for example) and could afford to participate in the burgeoning consumer economy. The increased availability of birth-control devices such as the diaphragm made it possible for women to have fewer children. And new machines and technologies like the washing machine and the vacuum cleaner eliminated some of the drudgery of household work. The flapper stereotype is one of short bobbed or shingled hair, straight loose knee-length dresses with a dropped waistline, silk or rayon stockings with garters, heavy makeup, and long beaded necklaces. Flappers are also associated with Jazz and 1920s dances like the Charleston. The mode of transportation, the architecture of the period, and the customs of the people have always influenced fashion, and so it was in the 1920s. Beautiful coordinated and accessorized outfits were a feature of 1920s ladies fashions. Hats, shoes, stockings, handbags, dresses and jewelry all came together in harmony to create a unique and elegant style that can only be appreciated when seen in real-life or in color illustrations. The vibrancy is lost in black and white photographs. In line with progress in other areas, clothing developed closer relationships with art, and an increased sense of freedom was expressed in simple yet elegant designs, with carefully selected fabrics, and an intelligent use of color. Womens fashions experienced dramatic changes in the early 1920s following the end of the first world war in a period often referred to as the roaring 20s. The passing of bustles and corsets gave clothing designers much greater freedom of expression. New and colorful fabrics echoed the joy felt by a war weary population following the end of hostilities. 1920s Dresses were lighter and brighter and shorter than ever before. Fashion designers played with fabric colors, textures and patterns

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to create totally new styles of dress. Hemlines rose for most of the decade but dropped slightly toward the end. Shoes and stockings assumed a greater prominence now that they were more visible. Silk stockings in all the colors of the rainbow, often with patterns, were designed to match the coordinated outfits of stylish women. Correspondence schools flourished in the inter-war period. Women who wanted the new fashions but couldnt afford retail prices in particular embraced dressmaking and millinery courses. Many women turned to fashion as a vocation in order to support their fatherless families or to earn extra income to spend on the new luxuries. Working women also embraced the relatively inexpensive ready-made clothes as mass production of contemporary clothing became common. Pantsuits, hats and canes gave women a sleek look without frills and avoiding the fickleness of fashion. In Europe, this look featured women with short hair (Bubikopf) for the first time; in the U.S., the bob was reintroduced by actress Louise Brooks in the late 1920s. Women all over the world copied the hairstyles of Hollywood stars and womens magazines carried articles on how to achieve the current look. Womens underwear changed as a result of this move towards practical clothing, with corsets becoming smaller and more flexible, and bras being introduced. Flappers, as the trendy young women were called in the U.S., wore short dresses with a straight loose silhouette. By 1927 seams had risen to just below the knee, so that part of the knee could be seen when dancing the Charleston. Women were targeted for advertising, a massive range of new products emerged, face powder, make up, Nylon stockings. A massive new market for women with disposable income. Thus, the Roaring Twenties redefined womanhood a new woman evolved; it was more acceptable to smoke and drink in public, to have closer body contact in dancing, shorter hair, make-up, different styles of dress, and greater participation in the workforce - all contributed to the new woman. Meanwhile, radio and phonograph records Americans bought more than 100 million of them in 1927 were bringing jazz to locations so remote that no band could reach them. And the music itself was beginning to change an exuberant, collective music was coming to place more and more emphasis on the innovations of supremely gifted individuals. Improvising soloists, struggling to find their own voices and to tell their own stories, were about to take centre stage. Jazz gained popularity in America and worldwide by the 1920s. Nothing quite like it had ever happened before in America. New exuberant dances were devised to take advantage of the upbeat tempos of Jazz and Ragtime music.

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Public dance halls, clubs, and tearooms opened in the cities. Strangely named black dances inspired by African style dance moves, like the shimmy, turkey trot, buzzard lope, chicken scratch, monkey glide, and the bunny hug were eventually adopted by the general public. The cake walk, developed by slaves as a send-up of their masters formal dress balls, became the rage. White audiences saw these dances first in vaudeville shows, performed by exhibition dancers in the clubs. Ragtime, which had been popular during and after the war, was suited to the new music tempos and so it flourished. Old favourites like the Waltz and Foxtrot remained popular due to people like Arthur Murray who ran dance schools and published How to books on all the popular dances. Dances like the Tango and Charleston received a huge boost in popularity when featured in movies by stars like Rudolph Valentino and Joan Crawford. Freed from the restrictions of tight corsets and the large puffed sleeves and long skirts that characterized dress during the late Victorian era, a new generation of dancers was swaying, hugging, and grinding to the new rhythms in dances. One of the best speakeasies in Harlem was the Cotton Club, a place that intended to have the look and feel of a luxurious Southern plantation. To complete the theme, only African-American entertainers could perform there, while only white clientele (with few exceptions) were allowed to patronize the establishment. This attracted high-powered celebrity visitors such as Cole Porter, Bing Crosby and Doris Duke to see the most talented black entertainers of the day. Some of the most famous jazz performers of the time - including singer Lena Horne, composer and musician Duke Ellington, and singer Cab Calloway - graced the Cotton Club stage. Attending clubs in Harlem allowed whites from New York and its surrounding areas to indulge in two taboos simultaneously: to drink, as well as mingle with blacks. Jazz musicians often performed in these clubs, exposing white clientele to what was typically an African-American form of musical entertainment. As jazz hit the mainstream, many members of older generations began associating the raucous behaviour of young people of the decade with jazz music In its early years jazz was considered the devils music by diverse segments of the American public. They started referring to the 20s, along with its new dance styles and racy fashions, as The Jazz Age.

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 While the new dances appealed to the youth they were not so popular with the older, more conservative generation who saw jazz in particular as decadent. This was partly due both to the nightclubbing and parties that were the venues for the dancing, and to the style of dance itself. It is worth pointing out that in the early 1900s both the Waltz and the Tango were considered scandalous dances because they involved physical contact between partners during the dance. Once the dance crazes, which took off in Paris, were demonstrated in America, the public embraced them and close dancing became a social norm. In the 1920s and 30s the Lindy hop, named for the pilot Charles Lindburghs first solo flight, emerged and was the first dance to include swinging the partner into the air, as well as jumping in sequence. People saw the new dances in Hollywood movies and practiced them to phonograph records or to radio broadcasts before going out on the dance floors of nightclubs or school gymnasiums. Dancing was a major part of peoples entertainment and an important part of every party. Schools taught dancing to small children, while churches used dances to attract young people. Tangos, Foxtrots, Camel Walks, even Square dances (which were heavily promoted by Henry Ford) were popular. Magazines and books on social dancing and related social activities were very popular, as were dance schools teaching all the latest dance crazes. Dance etiquette inherited from the previous century began to change. Parents who could afford to would send their children to learn Tap and Ballet dancing. Dancing was an extremely popular social activity for all age groups. Dance marathons occurred every weekend with the longest ever recorded being 3 weeks of dancing. Dancing began to actively involve the upper body for the first time as women began shaking their torsos in a dance called the Shimmy. Young people took to throwing their arms and legs in the air with reckless abandon and hopping or toddling every step in the Foxtrot, and soon every college student was doing a new dance, which became known as the Toddle. The dance that epitomizes the 1920s is the Charleston. The Charleston was introduced to the public in the Ziegfield Follies of 1923 by the all black cast Afro-American Broadway musical Running Wild, and became so popular that even today, it is still a symbol for the 1920s Jazz Age. Flappers with their knock-knees, crossing hands, and flying beads danced the Charleston, and a dance called the Black Bottom, first introduced in a 1926 Broadway production. Within the year, the dance swept not only America, but also the entire world.

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 What many young people wanted to do was dance: the Charleston, the cake walk, the black bottom, and the flea hop. Jazz bands played at dance halls like the Savoy in New York City and the Aragon in Chicago; radio stations and phonograph records (100 million of which were sold in 1927 alone) carried their tunes to listeners across the nation. Some older people objected to jazz musics vulgarity and depravity (and the moral disasters it supposedly inspired), but many in the younger generation loved the freedom they felt on the dance floor. The 1920s were Broadways prime years, with over 50 new musicals opening in just one season. Record numbers of people paid up to $3.50 for a seat at a musical. It was also a decade of incredible artistic developments in the musical theatre. Even i n the 1920s the lights of Broadway lit up the billboards at night in a huge splash of color that was immortalized in song. The dazzling lights were an attraction in their own right that compared with the shows in popularity. Showmen who took musical theatre seriously and tried to provide quality entertainment while making a profit at the same time produced the Broadway shows. This attitude kept the musical theatre booming right through the 1920s. Movies were an art form that had universal appeal. Their essence was entertainment; their success, financial and otherwise, was huge. They entertained and made people laugh, making the world a happier place to live in after the horrors of WW1. In the 1920s movie stars were really stars - with huge salaries, the fashions and activities of the Hollywood greats echoed around the world and 100,000 people would gather in London and even in Moscow to greet Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks on their triumphal tour of Europe. The early silent movies were often accompanied by live piano or organ music and provided enormous entertainment value to audiences everywhere. Although various attempts had been made to introduce sound, it wasnt until 1923 that a commercially distributed film contained a synchronized sound track that was photographically recorded and printed on to the side of the strip of motion picture film. It would still be seven years before talking pictures gained supremacy and finally replaced the silent era. The 1920s represented the era of greatest output in the US movie market. An average of 800 films were produced annually. Although developments in color and sound were still in the experimental stage a strong demand for movies, and therefore potential for profit, encouraged production of talkies for commercial release. Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer founded the huge Metro-Goldwyn-

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Mayer studio in 1924. Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin rose to stardom in this era, which also saw the premier of the first Walt Disney animated cartoon and the debut of Mickey Mouse. The French model of commercial movie houses became the international model, and entrepreneurs scurried to build impressive movie houses across North America and Europe including theatres to seat up to 5,000 people. The Capitol Theater in New York City seating 8,000 became the biggest cinema in the world. All across the ocean, the culture had changed. The world would never return to the days of quiet nights staying in with the family, waiting for an invitation. A new generation breathed life into the Nighttime , hungry for new music, new places and new experiences. So, next time youre applying your make up before a night out, consider the decade that made it all happen- The Twenties.

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This is a rough mock up of the event timeline feature. It will be set to a 1920s tune (undecided). I hope to get a better background and satellite map. It will be produced as a Flash Movie which will run in a linear fashion, however when I first had the idea I wanted it to be fully interactive where the user can control the events and timeline, and where there was far more detailed information. However I simplified it when I swapped to making a DVd instead. Just this past week I found out that it would be possible to include this feature if it was a DVD-Rom, so depending on time constraints I would love to aim for this.

As it stands, it is planned to be a linear flash timeline which will play 2-3 minutes, as the pointer moves across the year axis, the year will expand and be highlighted. The main events of the decade will play out in the center stage area (which is the Atlantic), this will be illustrated by Images floating up from their position on the map and enlarging on the staging area, a pop-up with the main headline will appear and fade. All this action will be smooth and gentle giving the user plenty of time to absorb and enjoy!

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Tomb of King Tutenkhamun discovered 1922

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