1910s - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

  • Radio programming becomes popular.
  • Flying Squadron of America promotes temperance movement in the U.S.
  • Edith Smith Davis edits the Temperance Educational Quarterly.
  • The first U.S. feature film, Oliver Twist, was released in 1912.
  • The first mob film, D. W. Griffith's The Musketeers of Pig Alley was released in 1912.
  • Hollywood replaces the East Coast as the center of the movie industry.
  • Charlie Chaplin débuts his trademark mustached, baggy-pants 'Little Tramp' character in Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914.
  • The first African American owned studio, the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, was founded in 1917.
  • The four Warner brothers, (from older to younger) Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack opened their first West Coast studio in 1918.
  • First Crossword Puzzle.
  • The first Jazz music is recorded.
  • The Salvation Army has a new international leader, General Bramwell Booth who served from 1912 to 1929. He replaces his father and co-founder of the Christian Mission (the forerunner of the Salvation Army), William Booth.

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