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Life 1939

Life 1937

1. Propaganda from WWI
   • "its first use in an organized, scientific manner"
   • British WPB
   • British bureau of Gilbert Parker, Lord Northcliffe
   • CPI, George Creel on Wilson's Censorship Board
   • "engineering of consent" (W. Lippmann's Public Opinion)
   • John Reed and the Bolshevik Revolution, Eisenstein's Soviet montage
   • Ramparts We Watch film by Time Inc.
2. Tabloid Newspapers
   • Evolution from the New Journalism
   • William Randolph Hearst
3. Newsreels
   • silent weekly releases after 1911 Pathe
   • sound biweekly issues after 1927 Movietone
   • March of Timemonthly "pictorial journalism"
4. Radio networks
   • evolved from earlier experimental radio history
   • NBC in 1927, CBS in 1927, MBS in 1934
     
   • David Sarnoff of RCA, William Paley & sponsors
     
   • entertainment but also news bureaus for Radio News)
     
5. FDR and Fireside Chats
   • centered national attention on the presidency
     
   • humanized government, intimate and informal
     
   • "documentary expression" - vivid and credible
     
6. New Deal documentary
   • FSA photography
     
   • Plow That Broke the Plains
     
   • We Work Again
     
   • Documentary films
   • The Helping Hand by Bill Moyers
   • Federal Theater's Cradle Will Rock
7. Hollywood's Golden Age
   • Jimmy Cagney in G-Men 1935 = affirmation
     
   • Frank Capra's It Happened One Night 1934
     
   • Walt Disney's Snow White 1937 = idealization
     
   • Sound Revolution and Movie Palaces
8. Candid photography
   • 35mm Leica 1925, not Weegee Fellig's Speed Graphic
     
   • Patterson's N.Y. Daily News tabloid 1919
   • Time-Fortune-Life of Henry Luce
     
   • amateur photography of the Hindenburg
   • home sound movies after RCA 16mm camera 1934
9. Phonograph records
   • evolved from earlier phonograph history
   • Bessie Smith recorded on wax
     
   • Decca 78 rpm electric "high fidelity"; AMI jukebox
     
   • "Voice of the Century" TV documentary on Bing Crosby
10. Magazines
    • magazine revolution - style and design
      
    • Art Deco 1925, R. Loewy, Coco Chanel, Vogue
      
    • Time, Inc.
      
11. Propaganda of WWII
    • Why We Fight of Frank Capra
    • Triumph of the Will of Leni Riefenstahl
    • Filmnotes for the Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)

Links:

• History of Recording Technology notes and bibliography.
• Depression links
• The Public Eye film with Joe Pesci playing a Weegee-like character in 1940's New York.
• Fireside Chats from FDRL
• FSA and OWI color photos and bibliography from Library of Congress
• The Photography of Arthur Fellig from the Brown University David Winton Bell Gallery
• Graflex company page with articles on the Speed and Crown Graphic press cameras, flashbulbs, Weegee, women photographers, and more.
• Timeline of Photography from George Eastman House

Books and Articles:

• Barnouw, Erik, Documentary, A History of the Non-Fiction Film, NY: Oxford, 1974.
• Bergman, Andrew, We're In the Money, Depression America and Its Films, NY: Harper, 1971.
• Buxton, Frank and Bill Owen, The Big Broadcast, 1920-1950, NY: Avon, 1968; revised and expanded edition 1972 published by Viking.
• Carpenter, Lynette, ""There's No Place Like Home': The Wizard of Oz and American Isolationism," Film and History, vol. XV no. 2, 1985.
• Fielding, Raymond, The March of Time, 1935-1951, NY: Oxford, 1978.
• Fox, Stephen, The Mirror Makers, A History of American Advertising and Its Creators, NY: Random, 1984.
• Kery, Patricia F., Art Deco Graphics, NY: Abrams, 1986.
• Lippmann, Walter, Public Opinion, NY: Harcourt, 1922.
• Rossi, John, "Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940)," Film and History, vol. XII, no. 2, 1982.
• Schickel, Richard, The Disney Version, NY: Avon, 1968; revised paperback edition 1985 published by Touchstone.
• Stott, William, Documentary Expression and Thirties America, NY: Oxford, 1973.