The Roaring Twenties

The 1920's was the beginning of the Jazz Age and sometimes refered to in europe as the "Golden Twenties".

It was n this era that the first motion picture with a soundtrack was relseased in 1926 "Don Juan"

The first all talking motion picture was relseased in 1928 "Lights of New York"

1929 became the year when the first all talking colour motion picture was released "On With The Show"

It is the begining of the Art Deco and Surrealist movement and Picasso is active and becoming well known.

Scott F. Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby" and T.S. Elliot publishes "The Waste Land".

Youth culture of "the lost generation" the flapper dress and the "bob" haircut spreads quickly and the discovery of Tutankarmun's tomb begins a second wave of "Egyptomania".

Noted Scientists of the decade are: Albert Einstien, Sigmund Freud, Nikola Tesla and Alexander Fleming.

some performers were Charlie Chaplin, Greta Gabo and Harry Houdini.