Project 20 Series: The Jazz Age, 1919-1929 (Part 1)

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1965

Complete Record: Depicts social life and customs in America during the 1920s, a prosperous era of excessive pleasure-seeking which has come to be known as the Jazz Age, and traces important historical events of the period. Part I begins with the Versailles Conference, then reveals a picture of the Harding political campaign and scandal, rise of the Ku Klux Klan, American town life, new manners and morals for women, and widespread use of the automobile. Other subjects covered include nightclubs of the prohibition era, wild stock market speculation, bootlegging industry, racketeering, and popularity of foreign travel. Part II shows night life of Paris, Josephine Baker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lindbergh's flight, ticker tape parade,American sports, Hoover campaign, stars of show business, Ziegfeld Follies type dancing, and the stock market crash in 1929. Illustrated throughout with archive newsreel footage, and narrated by the late Fred Allen.