How did film and communication evolve throughout the 1920s, who were some of the big new names in the entertainment industry?

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Answer 1

Film at the time was a relatively new medium.

Big names

Charlie Chaplin - He was able to survive the invention of the talkie. He is best known for his film the kid.

Jackie Coogan - was the top child star of the decade. He was adorable. He was in the film the Kid with Charlie Chaplin. He lost all of his money to his greedy parents. He helped establish laws to protect child actors.

Virgina Davis - was the first Disney Star. She stared in the Alice Comedies where she as Alice would go into an animated world and interact with animated characters

Al Jolson - Was the first talkie star. He was known for doing black face in his stage act

Cecil B. Demile - Known for his first version of the the 10 Commandments and later remaking it.

D.W. Griffith - Known for his film Birth of Nation, which resurrected the KKK.

Lon Chaney - Was Universals go to for film monsters. He is best known for Quasimodo and the Phantom of the Opera. He did his own makeup because effects makeup would not become a thing until 14 years later when the Wizard of Oz came out.

Roscoe Arbuckle - was a comedian like Chaplin but he was accused and acquitted for the murder of a young actress due to his weight. His career was never able to recover.

Buster Keaton - was a comedian

Answer 2

In the 1920s, the film was a novelty, much like generative AI today, but with different effects. It created a new form of entertainment based on theater but with a larger audience because the performance was recorded. At first, only the image was recorded, then the sound was introduced (synchronized). Although the technology existed since the end of the 19^th century, it wasn’t until 1927 that the sound was incorporated into a film – The Jazz Singer.

In the Roaring 20s, the world was emerging from a profoundly destructive event: World War I. Many people lost their lives, homes, careers, and lifestyles. Other societal changes were underway, like the Harlem Renaissance or the Jazz Age, on the cultural level, and the US experienced economic growth with an accent on consumers. The role of women grew, and we see it in the Flappers movement.

So, the film industry, too, reflected those changes. It was more than a form of entertainment; it helped spread ideas and cultural movements, showed people a lifestyle they aspired to attain, popularized broader concepts, and simplified them.    

Some names were Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Buster Keaton, Rudolf Valentino and so on. This is a short answer, but there is so much to say about the subject.