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Today’s Topic: The Beginnings of Pop Culture
Turn of the “Modern Century”1900s
1.) When & How did we become a nation consumed by Popular Culture?
2.) Who is the Father of Pop Culture?
In order to create Popular Culture….
People need:
More Free-Time!TO PARTICIPATE
IN POP CULTURE
More Money!TO SPEND
CONSUMING POP CULTURE
Late 1800s America:
In order for something to be popular, lots of people have to
know about it.At the Turn of the 20th Century (1900s):
Q: What are some things preventing people from taking part in pop culture?
• Long work hours = don’t have time for it• Low pay = can’t afford to be part of it• Uneducated = can’t read about it, can’t learn about it• Lack of movement = hard to spread ideas
True or False: Henry Ford invented the car.False!• 1672 = Ferdinand Verbiest created the first steam powered “vehicle”• Designed a steam propelled trolley as a toy for the emperor
• 1769 = Nicolas Cugnot designed the world’s first working self-propelled vehicle• Weighed 2.5 tons• 2 rear tires, 1 front• Seated 4 passengers• Speed: 2 mph
David Dunbar Buick
Karl BenzWalter Chrysler
Ransom E. Olds
• July 30, 1863 -- April 7, 1947• Did not invent automobile, but developed the first automobile that
Americans could afford• Helped to develop the assembly line technique of mass production• In 1914, sales passed 250,000. By 1916, sales reached 472,000. • By 1918, half of all cars in America were Model T's.
Henry Ford: The Father of Pop Culture
Mass Production
Henry Ford’s Assembly Line!
• Long work hours = don’t have time for it
• Low pay = can’t afford to be part of it
• Uneducated = can’t read about it, learn about it
• Lack of movement = hard to spread ideas
8 hour work day = more leisure time
Paid $5/day; provided housing
Hello, he invented the car
Better Pay = kids don’t work and go
to school
Detroit = Motor City
The “Sunday Drive”
96 people died in 1900 from car accidents
Cars influenced fashion:
Pre-1900s ideal woman: “Gibson Girl” (personification of the feminine ideal of beauty)
Before Cars
Hobble Skirt
Before Cars After Cars
The 1st Motion Pictures(Turn of the 20th Century)
Obj:• Describe early films of the 1900s
Pop Quiz! 1.) Who is Pop Culture’s Daddy?
2.) Explain why this person can be called the Dad of Pop Culture.
3.) How did the popularity of the car change women’s fashion?
4.) Name 1 other car manufacture in existence during the early 1900s.
5.) Define pop culture.
More Free-Time!
Turn of the centurypeople now had…
More Money!
FACTS 1900-1919Population: 92,407,000
Life: Male 48.4 Female: 51.8
Average Salary $750 / year Unemployed 2,150,000
Union Membership: 2.1 million Strikes 1,204
Attendance @ Movies 30 million per week
Divorce: 1/1,000 Vacation: 12 day cruise $60
Whiskey $3.50 / gallon, Milk $.32 / gallon
Who made the first
movie??
Early Films…Let’s Watch
• The First Motion Picture Ever Made? The Horse In Motion (1878)
Eadweard Muybridge
Early Films…Let’s Watch
• Or was it… Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
• Louis Le Prince
Early Films…Let’s Watch
• But undeniably the first popular moving picture show was
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
• Edwin S. Porter
1915:$110,000 to makeMade $10 million
D.W. Griffith
Early Films…Let’s Watch
• Or was it… Birth of a Nation (1915)• Silent drama film based on the novel and play The Clansman• Shows the relationship of two families in Civil War and Reconstruction-
era America (pro-Union Northerners and pro-Confederacy Southerners)• Released on February 8, 1915 and presented in two parts, separated by
an intermission• Film also shows the Lincoln’s assassination by John Wilkes Booth
• NAACP protested at premieres and riots broke out when film was shown• Basic message of the film:
• Reconstruction was a disaster• Blacks could never be integrated into white society as equals• Violent actions of the KKK were justified in order to reestablish an honest
government
• Film also suggested that the KKK restored order to post-war South