The Golden Twenties (1950)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 08m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary that looks back at the 1920s in America. It uses old newsreel footage and multiple narrators to cover the people and events of that era.

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What happens

The Golden Twenties is a 1950 American documentary film, which used footage from the March of Time newsreels. It is the only film credited to Time Inc., although their newsreel division, the March of Time, produced four films, and this film was produced by the March of Time producer, Richard de Rochemont. While composed of existing footage, the film was narrated by five different people: Frederick Lewis Allen, Robert Q. Lewis, Allen Prescott, Red Barber, and Elmer Davis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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