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    • The   1930s decade (and most of the 1940s as well) has been nostalgically labeled   "The Golden Age of Hollywood"
    • The 30s was also the decade of the sound   and color

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    Example of Helen Morgan in a 1930s film musical.

    • The American film industry was dominated by five major corporate-style   studios in the 1930s (and into the 40s)
    • 20th Century Fox

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    • All   Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - the controversial, landmark   film was denounced and banned in numerous European countries. It was a   remarkable film that used 'advanced' sound dubbing techniques - incorporating   sound effects, dialogue, and music on one soundtrack.
    • The   studio had its greatest success with its cycle of classic horror films.   Actually, the horror film releases were the first modern horror   movies (a resurrected genre), beginning with Tod Browning's Dracula   (1931) (expressionistically filmed by Karl Freund). The film starred   Bela Lugosi in a star-making role as the vampire Count Dracula, a creation   of Irish writer Bram Stoker in his 1897 novel Dracula. [Dracula   would become the most frequently-portrayed character in horror   films.]

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    • The Gay Divorcee (1934). [The film might   have been called The Gay Divorce, but the Hays Production Code   disapproved with the argument that divorces couldn't be 'gay'.
    • Bette Davis emerged as a star at Warner Bros

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    • One   film had everything, and was perhaps cinema's most original creation
    • King   Kong (1933), a phenomenal film that raised the bar for special   effects for many decades

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