POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Shared Experience, General Idea, Takers

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

Document Summary

History is similar between canada and usa, first canadian movie in montr al was in 1896 which was around the same time as the us. By the time of world war 1, every city in canada had at least one major theatre. By 1920 there were 150 cinemas (a lot for back then) In bradford ontario in around 1908: first canadian chain of movie theatres, theatre in every city in canada, ended up being bought by paramount. In the 1920s the city hall area was an absolute slum, poor immigrants and poor people in general lived there. This was the general idea of all cities. Movies were cheap and easy to understand fir the poor and uneducated, they were in the city where poor people and people who were looked down upon lived. In the 1930s movie culture began, got even bigger in the 1950s, in 1952 it was the peak year.