Causes
Global Event during 1930s influenced themes of escapism and hope in films like "The Wizard of Oz" and "Snow White".
What is the Great Depression?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first full length film of this type of animation.
What is hand-drawn animation?
Source of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
Who is Walt Disney?
Character swept away by a tornado to a magical land?
Who is Dorothy?
What is Technicolor?
A genre of the Wizard of Oz. Includes music and ensembles.
What is a musical?
Southern families that can relate to the culture represented
Historical context of Wizard of Oz
1939 American fantasy musical film released during the Great Depression as one of the first major films to have used the Technicolor
Gone with the Wind reflects the cultural brought on by this historical conflict
What is the Civil War?
A type of film that was popularized during the 1930s, involving nature vs. humans and fantasy creatures.
What is a monster film?
What is a Technicolor?
Intended Audience?
General Audience, Families and children seeking escapism from their economic struggles
What is Black Tuesday?
Hollywood transitions from silent films to ____.
What is Talkies?
Significance of Gone With the Wind?
What is a film that received 10 academy awards?
What is a film that had the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Point of View?
Admiration for resilience and the idea of a home as a central part of core American Values
Names of places where people would live during the Great Depression.
What is Hooverville?
Text in between scenes of silent films
What are Intertitles?
Significance of Snow White?
What is Starting the Disney empire, and providing the resources and confidence necessary to make animated films one of the standards for future storytelling
A landmark in Hollywood filmmaking, became a symbol of American optimism and their perseverance