Movies & Radio of the 1920s

The Movie Industry

• Films really starting becoming popular in the 1920s. .
• Most US film production studios were in or near Hollywood on the West Coast
• Movies were big business with a capital investment totaling over $2 billion with some theaters offering double features.
• By the end of the decade, there were 20 Hollywood studios, and the demand for films was greater than ever

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• By the end of the decade, there were 20 Hollywood studios, and the demand for films was greater than ever

1920's Film and Cinema

The Business of Radio production in the 1920

• Most radio historians asert that radio broadcasting began in 1920 with the historic broadcast of KDKA

Created by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation on November 2, 1920, it is the world's first commercial radio station

Other Facts about the radio in 1920

• Inventions of the triode amplifier, generator, and detector enabled audio radio.
• Fessenden and Lee de Forest pioneered the invention of amplitude-modulated radio (AM radio), so more than one station can send signals

Other Facts about the radio in 1920

• by 1922, 600 radio stations had sprung up around the United States.
• Between 1923 and 1930, 60 percent of American families purchased radios.

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