film industry

Foundations of the Prolific Film Industry:

Films really blossomed in the 1920s, expanding upon the foundations of film from earlier years. Most US film production at the start of the decade occurred in or near Hollywood on the West Coast, although some films were still being made in New Jersey and in Astoria on Long Island (Paramount). By the mid-20s, movies were big business (with a capital investment totaling over $2 billion) with some theatres offering double features. By the end of the decade, there were 20 Hollywood studios, and the demand for films was greater than ever. Most people are unaware that the greatest output of feature films in the US occurred in the 1920s and 1930s (averaging about 800 film releases in a year) - nowadays, it is remarkable when production exceeds 500 films in a year.

Throughout most of the decade, silent films were the predominant product of the film industry, having evolved from vaudevillian roots. But the films were becoming bigger (or longer), costlier, and more polished. They were being manufactured, assembly-line style, in Hollywood's 'entertainment factories,' in which production was broken down and organized into its various components (writing, costuming, makeup, directing, etc.).

Even the earliest films were organized into genres or types, with instantly-recognizable storylines, settings, costumes, and characters. The major genre emphasis was on swashbucklers, historical extravaganzas, and melodramas, although all kinds of films were being produced throughout the decade. Films varied from sexy melodramas and biblical epics by Cecil B. DeMille, to westerns (such as Cruze's The Covered Wagon (1923)), horror films, gangster/crime films, war films, the first feature documentary or non-fictional narrative film (Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922)), romances, mysteries, and comedies (from the silent comic masters Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd).

The Major Film Studios: The Big Five

1920-1930 was the decade between the end of the Great War and the Depression following the Stock Market Crash. Film theaters and studios were not initially affected in this decade by the Crash in late 1929. The basic patterns and foundations of the film industry (and its economic organization) were established in the 1920s. The studio system was essentially born with long-term contracts for stars, lavish production values, and increasingly rigid control of directors and stars by the studio's production chief and in-house publicity departments. After World War I and into the early 1920s, America was the leading producer of films in the world - using Thomas Ince's "factory system" of production, although the system did limit the creativity of many directors. Production was in the hands of the major studios (that really flourished after 1927 for almost 20 years), and the star system was burgeoning.

Originally, in the earliest years of the motion picture industry, production, distribution, and exhibition were separately controlled. When the industry rapidly grew, these functions became integrated under one directorship to maximize profits, something called vertical integration. There were eight major (and minor) studios (see below) that dominated the industry. They were the ones that had most successfully consolidated and integrated all aspects of a film's development. By 1929, the film-making firms that were to rule and monopolize Hollywood for the next half-century were the giants or the majors, sometimes dubbed The Big Five. They produced more than 90 percent of the fiction films in America and distributed their films both nationally and internationally. Each studio somewhat differentiated its products from other studios.

	The Big Five Studios	Logo
1.	Warner Bros. Pictures, incorporated in 1923 by Polish brothers (Jack, Harry, Albert, and Sam); in 1925, Warner Brothers merged with First National, forming Warner Bros.-First National Pictures; the studio's first principal asset was Rin Tin Tin; became prominent by 1927 due to its introduction of talkies (The Jazz Singer (1927)) and early 30s gangster films; it was known as the "Depression studio"; in the 40s, it specialized in Bugs Bunny animations and other cartoons	Warner Bros.
2.	Adolph Zukor's Famous Players (1912) and Jesse Lasky'sFeature Play - merged in 1916 to form Famous Players-LaskyCorporation; it spent $1 million on United Studios' property (on Marathon Street) in 1926; the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation became Paramount studios in 1927, and was officially named Paramount Pictures in 1935; its greatest silent era stars were Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, and Rudolph Valentino; Golden Age stars included Mae West, W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and director Cecil B. DeMille	Famous Players-Lasky (Paramount)
3.	RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures, evolved from the Mutual Film Corporation (1912), was established in 1928 as a subsidiary of RCA; it was formed by RCA, Keith-Orpheum Theaters, and the FBO Company (Film Booker's Organization) - which was owned by Joseph P. Kennedy (who had already purchased what remained of Mutual); this was the smallest studio of the majors; kept financially afloat with top-grossing Astaire-Rogers musicals in the 30s, King Kong (1933), andCitizen Kane (1941); at one time, RKO was acquired by eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes	RKO
4.	Marcus Loew of Loew's, Inc., was the parent firm of what eventually became Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Metro Pictures Corporation was a production company founded in 1916 by Richard A. Rowland and Louis B. Mayer. In 1918, Mayer left this partnership to start up his own production company in 1918, called Louis B. Mayer Pictures. In 1920, Metro Pictures Corporation (with its already-acquired Goldwyn Pictures Corporation) was purchased by early theater exhibitor Marcus Loew of Loew's Inc. In another acquisition, Loew merged his 'Metro-Goldwyn production company with Louis B. Mayer Pictures. So, in summary, MGM, first named Metro-Goldwyn Pictures, was ultimately formed in 1924 from the merger of three US film production companies: Metro Pictures Corporation (1916),Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (1917), and the Louis B. Mayer Pictures Company (1918); Irving Thalberg (nicknamed the 'boy wonder') was head of production at MGM from 1924 until his death in 1936; the famous MGM lion roar in the studio's opening logo was first recorded and viewed in a film in 1928; its greatest early successes were The Big Parade (1925), Broadway Melody (1929), Grand Hotel (1932), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), A Night at the Opera (1935), The Good Earth (1937),Gone With the Wind (1939), The Wizard of Oz (1939), as well as Tarzan films, Tom and Jerry cartoons, and stars such as Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, and Spencer Tracy	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
5.	Fox Film Corporation/Foundation, founded in 1912 by NY nickelodeon owner William Fox (originally a garment industry worker), was first known for Fox Movietone news and then B-westerns; its first film was Life's Shop Window (1914); it later became 20th-Century Fox, formed through the 1935 merger of20th Century Pictures Company (founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck) and Fox; it became famous for Shirley Temple films in the mid-30s and Betty Grable musicals in the 40s	Movietone Newsreels 20th Century Pictures 20th-Century Fox

The Big-Five studios had vast studios with elaborate sets for film production. They owned their own film-exhibiting theatres (about 50% of the seating capacity in the US in mostly first-run houses in major cities), as well as production and distribution facilities. They distributed their films to this network of studio-owned, first-run theaters (or movie palaces), mostly in urban areas, which charged high ticket prices and drew huge audiences. They requiredblind or block bookings of films, whereby theatre owners were required to rent a block of films (often cheaply-made, less-desirable B-pictures) in order for the studio to agree to distribute the one prestige A-level picture that the theatre owner wanted to exhibit. This technique set the terms for a film's release and patterns of exhibition and guaranteed success for the studio's productions. [Monopolistic studio control lasted twenty years until the late 1940s, when a federal decree (in U.S. vs. Paramount) ordered the studios to divest their theatres, similar to the rulings against the MPPC - the Edison Trust.]

The Minor Film Studios: The Little Three

Three smaller, minor studios were dubbed The Little Three, because each of them lacked one of the three elements required in vertical integration - owning their own theaters:

	The Little Three Studios	Logo
1.	Universal Pictures, (or Universal Film Manufacturing Co), founded by Carl Laemmle in 1912; formed from a merger of Laemmle's own IMP - Independent Motion Picture Company (founded in 1909) with Bison 101, the U. S. production facilities of French studio Éclair, Nestor Film Co., and several other film companies; its first successes were W.C. Fields and Abbott and Costello comedies, the Flash Gordon serial, and Woody Woodpecker cartoons	Universal
2.	United Artists, formed in 1919 by movie industry icons Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Charlie Chaplin, and director D.W. Griffith as an independent company to produce and distribute their films; United Artists utilized an 18-acre property owned by Pickford and Fairbanks, known as the Pickford-Fairbanks Studio, and later named United Artists Studio in the 1920s	United Artists
3.	Columbia Pictures, originally the C.B.C. Film Sales Company in 1920 founded by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn, and Joseph Brandt, and officially named Columbia in 1924; their studios opened at the old location of Christie-Nestor Studios; established prominence with It Happened One Night (1934), Rita Hayworth films, Lost Horizon (1937), The Jolson Story (1946), andBatman serials.	CBC Film Sales Columbia Pictures (1924-1936) Columbia

Books and Literature For The Decade

Three important groups during this period were: The Algonquin Round Table, also called THE ROUND TABLE. They were an  informal group of American literary men and women, and during the 1920s and '30s they met daily for lunch on weekdays at a large round table in the Algonquin Hotel in New York City . Many of the best-known writers, journalists, and artists in New York City were in this group. Among them:  Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott (author of the quote "All the things I really like are immoral, illegal, or fattening", Heywood Broun, Robert Benchley,Robert Sherwood, George S. Kaufman, Franklin P. Adams, Marc Connelly, Harold Ross, Harpo Marx, and Russell Crouse. 

The first important movement of black artists and writers in the US was the Harlem Renaissance. Centered in Harlem, NY, and other urban areas during the 1920s, black writers published more than ever before. Black authors, artists, and musicians received their first serious critical appraisal. Among this group: Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Alain Locke , who was considered the chief interpreter for the Harlem movement.

The Lost Generation, consisted of self-exiled expatriates who lived and wrote in Paris between the wars. Looking for freedom of thought and action, these writers changed the face of modern writing. Realistic and rebellious, they wrote what they wanted and fought censorship for profanity and sexuality. Incorporated in their writing were Freudian ideas into their characters and styles. Among this group: Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Other who were of importance during this decade include E. E. Cummings who experimented with language (and punctuation!).  An important part of the Southern Renaissance was William Faulkner, and Edna St. Vincent Millay expressed the defiance and desires of her generation from Greenwich Village.  Eugene O'Neill drew attention to a serious American stage. Also it was the beginning of the Golden Age of Mysteries - with such American writers as Raymond Chandler and Dashielle Hammett paving the way for many many years to come.

what is art deco?

we always hear that in the 1920s the movement of art deco was evolved, common and widely used. 

but what is art deco ? what does it mean ? in the twenties ?

The mood during the 1920s was optimistic and the future seemed bright. World War I was over and the economy was booming throughout the world. The Roaring Twenties ushered in a spirit of frivolity, luxury and a sense of freedom and hopefulness.

Jazz music was all the rage, women had won the right to vote and the flapper further liberated women. Leisurely travel gained popularity when in 1923, Coco Chanel returned from a cruise to Cannes, sporting a hot new accessory - sun tanned skin!

The Machine Age was in full swing and technology was rapidly improving the quality of life. This was the age that introduced the radio, the printing press, the skyscraper and modernized transportation.

There was a sense of excitement and expectancy in the air, a time of anticipating a future filled with promise. And it was during this hustle and bustle of activity that the Art Deco style began to emerge.

The term Art Deco (1925-1950) came from the International Art Exposition in Paris in 1925.  Art of this style, in the 20s and 30s was referred to as modern. Designers included Karl Weber and Eliel Saarinen.

Art Deco History Themes

The themes that emerged from the Exhibition were 'Modernity', 'Technology' and 'Luxury & Leisure'. Although the Exhibition in Paris featured the works of French artists the Art Deco movement was a global one, with deep roots in other European countries, Egypt, India, East Asia, Latin America, South Africa, Australia, United States, Mexico and Cuba. The 'look' of Art Deco is often difficult to describe, as it is an eclectic mix of styles, however it has the "you know it when you see it" quality about it. (Fulford, 2003).

The Classic Art Deco Look
Art Deco is most commonly associated with a sleek aesthetic, symmetrical geometric shapes and bold bright colors like yellow, purple, ruby and turquoise.Skyscrapers, furniture, and everyday objects were embellished with angular patterns like zigzags, sunburst and chevrons. Automobiles, trains, ocean liners and other means of transport began to take on a more futuristic, aerodynamic look. Steel, glass and lacquered wood were used to achieve that sleek, modern look. The booming economy allowed for the liberal use of expensive materials, such as diamonds and onyx in jewelry, andmahogany and ivory in furniture.


As leisurely travel came into vogue, a need for marketing exotic destinations to the young and affluent became increasingly important. Major advances in Graphic Designwere happening during this time and in turn there was a mass producing of advertising paraphernalia that came out of the Art Deco era, most notably the travel poster.
According to Art Deco history, Deco was intended to be a "Modernist follow-up to Art Nouveau" (HuntFor.com, 2007) and historians often speak about Art Deco history in contrast to Art Nouveau. Where Art Nouveau was stylized and curvilinear, Art Deco was streamlined and linear.

architecture

1920's architecture was characterised by improved standards in residential home building for the masses and also the proliferation of the skyscraper for commercial buildings. 

There was a big push by politicians and leaders of industry to upgrade the standard of low cost housing and make homes more affordable. The twenties was part of the transition period between the 19th century style of housing and the type of homes we have today. New materials and building methods meant houses were easier to heat and cool, were more hygienic, and more suited to modern living. 

This modern style of housing was exemplified in an architectural competition in 1921 for small homes where it was specified - "The requirements of the house provide for a home for an American family of good taste, small means, and no servants, desiring to make a charming home with beauty of design obtained by harmony of line, color and proportion, and simplicity of treatment of the house and grounds, the maximum of comfort in summer and winter, the maximum of housekeeping facility and convenience for all phases of indoor and outdoor family home life, and the minimum exterior and interior upkeep and operating expense, with a minimum of cost .

Reinforced concrete techniques were developed to the point that precast concrete panels were used in house and church construction as well as commercial buildings. In fact complete houses were built that resembled weatherboard houses in appearance. Reinforced concrete was also used extensively in bridge building. 

A popular style of housing that began in the previous decade and carried over into the twenties was the Bungalow, often referred to worldwide as the California Bungalow. 

Twenties homes are sought after today by renovators and restorers who want to update the beautiful character homes with modern fittings and furnishings. 

The word skyscraper was originally a nautical term for a tall mast or sail on a sailing ship but today is used to refer to tall buildings, usually higher than 150 metres (500 feet). Most skyscrapers serve as office buildings or hotels. 

Until the 19th century, buildings of over six stories were rare. It was impractical to have people walk up so many flights of stairs, and water pressure could only provide running water to about 50 feet (15 m). 

The development of steel, reinforced concrete, and water pumps have made possible the construction of extremely tall buildings, some of which are well over 300 metres (987 ft) tall. The other development essential to practical skyscraper development was the invention of the elevator. 

The skyscraper first emerged in the land-strapped areas of New York City and Chicago, Illinois toward the end of the 19th century. Engineers of the 1920's considered that 2000 feet high was the maximum height that a skyscraper could be built. 

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Art Theft in the 1920s

Art Theft in the 1920s

Interestingly, the first historically documented case of art theft comes to us from an Egyptian papyrus dated around 1134 BC, one of the oldest documents around. So it isn't exactly a new concept. In the 1920's, well prior to the mass looting by the Nazis, the most famous case of art theft in the Western world would undoubtedly have been the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre; it was not recovered for two years, and during that time spawned a thriving industry of con artists who sold copies which they claimed were the real thing to gullible rich people.

Theft from museums has been a chronic problem throughout the ages - no matter how good the security is, the entire point of a public museum is allowing the public access to valuable works of art. Art thefts from museums continue even after the introduction of surveillance cameras and electronic security systems; in 1925, before either of those existed, it was even easier. Similarly, thefts from archeological dig sites were notoriously hard to control - it can be awfully hard to guard a large hole in the ground twenty-four hours a day.

Of course, in some countries it was easier to steal than in others. Russia throughout the Communist period had a strict policy governing what kinds of artworks were permitted to leave the country; art was considered to belong to the people, and stealing it for private profit was considered particularly heinous. 

During several periods, the KGB and its predecessors were noted for cracking down on art theft rings. Of course, none of this prevented art theft rings from thriving, and art theft was often a booming business in Russia (Katya will note that capitalist countries with similar policies, such as Italy, usually have worse problems, and will also presciently point out that if Communism were to fall in, oh, say 1989, the problem would get infinitely worse as greedy protocapitalists rape the nation and the Russian Mafia becomes the de facto ruler of large parts of the country.)

At any rate, in light of that, it is interesting to note that the Hermitage Museum colection is so large that the part of its holdings which are not out for public view have never been completely catalogued, and no one living knows exactly what's down there. During the more turbulent periods of Russian history - like the 1920's - it was very likely an art thief's wet dream . . .

Of course, the majority of art theft that was going on in the 1920's wasn't being perpetrated by individual crooks at all, but by governments and their pet archeological teams, who would habitually go into militarily weaker foreign countries and pretty much take whatever they felt like. Resentment over wholesale thefts of national treasures from a variety of countries persists to this day. Of course, these archeologists did differ in some ways from their less successful criminal compatriots; archeologists were, of course, doing it for science rather than personal profit, for clearly none of them were hoping that there efforts would bring them, say, a cushy job at a university or research foundation. 

the human fly

The Human Fly

George Gibson Polley was an American pioneer of (the then-unnamed act of) buildering, or climbing the walls of tall buildings, earning him the nickname "the human fly".

According to himself, he began his climbing career in 1910 when an owner of a clothing store promised him a suit if he would climb to the roof of the building. He succeeded.

Over his career Polley climbed over 2000 buildings. On Jan 9, 1920 he climbed the Woolworth building but was arrested, just when he reached the 30th floor and had 27 floors to go, for climbing without official permission. He also climbed 500 ft up the Custom House Tower in Boston. He would often spice up his performance by pretending to slip and fall from one windowsill to another.

"The Human Fly" George Polley, 27, is a lightweight wrestler who became famous by climbing buildings. After he was arrested whilst climbing, he decided to call it quits, and began using his unique skills to fight for money, climbing to places his opponent couldn’t get to, and then jumping on them when they finally gave up trying to get to him. He came down to Mississippi when he heard of a "professional" fighting league."

George Polley died at the age of 29 due to a brain tumor.

Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka

When someone mentions the Roaring Twenties, it conjures up the Jazz Age, flappers, Prohibition, the Charleston, gangsters, The Great Gatsby, Mary Pickford, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Designers and architects also remember the 20's for the Chrysler Building, the luxury liner Normandie, and the interior of Radio City Music Hall, all outstanding examples of the decorative arts style called Art Deco. To many designers of jewelry, furniture, clothes, fabrics, and ceramics, Art Deco of the 20's with its geometric motifs and bright, bold colors represents the best and purest forms of that decorative art period. 

Art Deco, a classical, symmetrical, rectilinear style that reached its high point between 1925-1935, drew its inspiration from such serious art movements as Cubism, Futurism, and the influence of the Bauhaus. In Paris, it was a dominant art form of the 1920-1930 period.

Of all the artists prusuing the style "Arts Decoratifs", one of the most memorable was Tamara de Lempicka.

She was born Maria Gorska of well-to-do parents in turn-of- the-century Poland. After her mother and father divorced, her wealthy grandmother spoiled her with clothes and travel. 
By age 14 she was attending school in Lausanne, Switzerland. Tamara vacationed in St. Petersburg with her Aunt Stephanie, whose millionaire banker husband had their home decorated by the famous French firm Maison Jansen. 
All this high living gave the young girl an idea of how she wanted to live and what her future should be.

1920's Animation

Full Animation

During the 1920s and '30s, animation studios in the US, primarily in Hollywood and New York City (Fleischer Studios), made high-quality animated cartoons assembly-line fashion using lots of personnel. Many animation drawings were used, producing a convincing illusion of movement. This type of animation is called full animation.

                                                       Mickey Mouse - Steamboat Willie

famous bedrooms Color pallets in the twenties

The first bedroom appeared in Better Homes & Gardens in 1923 as an advertisement for Armstrong Linoleum. The grey and pink patterned floor is lineoleum with a few two-tone pink rungs to anchor the room. The furniture is representative of some of the folk styles that were popular. The grey and pink is carried throughout the room in the furniture, flooring, and walls. The hand-painted furniture with its floral motif ties in with the the floral valance and what is probably a grey striped wallpaper. The desk is a grey-green with a dark pink stripe. The bed, chest, and bedside table, and desk chair could be painted to match or contrast. A dark green paper shade on a candlestick lamp with a floral design continues the motive. The dark pink armchair and bedspread match the pink carpets. Crisp white curtains, a brass bedside lamp, and brass sconces complete the look.

The second bedroom from the 1920s is also an Armstrong creation. The floor is a deep vibrant blue with hooked rugs. The walls are a dusty peach with a biscuit color trim and chair rail. Above the chair rail is a diamond-patterned wallpaper in blue, biscuit, and rose. The style overall is clearly a colonial interpretation. The furniture is walnut, and could easily incorporate either antiques or modern colonial reproduction pieces. Textiles are simple white curtains with a blue ball fringe to match the bedcover. An wingback armchair is upholstered in a blue and purple print. A desk lamp has a pink pleated shade and other small accessories are pewter.

inspiration

What a weird path to get inspiration for logo, but what my clint asked for is the antique bronze color and i immediately thought antique door knobs, so o started searching and found few stuff that really got my attention.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties is a term sometimes used to refer to the 1920s, characterizing the era's distinctive cultural edge in most of the world's major cities for a period of sustained economic prosperity. French speakers dubbed it the "années folles" ("Crazy Years"),emphasizing the era's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism.

In 1939 director Raoul Walsh did a movie called the roaring Twenties about Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.

Childrens Toys of the 1920's

Children's Toys of the 1920's

Popular boys toys of this period reflected the new and exciting cars, trucks and planes, while girls went for the traditional toys of dolls house and dolls. 


American toy manufacturers excelled in the production of mechanical toys. The greater part of the foreign toy competition was in the cheaper grades of play-things, with the Japanese toy-makers and Germany shipping large quantities of cheap toys for the American market. 

Much like today there was a huge variety of toys including Clockwork Toys, Planes, Trucks, Tractors, Buses, Power Boats, Trains, Steam Engines, Musical toys, Character toys, Circus toys, pedal cars, sports, war toys, and construction toys like Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys. These included tin toys, pressed metal and cast-iron toys, wooden toys and paper toys. There seemed to be a bigger variety of toys available for boys than girls. 

Classic vehicle toys for boys were made by companies likeBuddy L, Tootsie, Wyandotte, and Marx - while dolls for the girls were supplied by Effanbee and Schoenhut.

SCHOENHUT TOYS 1926 

For more than half a century, Santa Claus has made the Schoenhut factory in Philadelphia his headquarters. During all those years Schoenhut's American-made toys have been known as strong, durable toys that educate the child as well as amuse. The better stores all sell Schoenhut Toys. It will pay you to look for the name "Schoenhut" on the toys you buy for Christmas. 

This is the fifty-fourth year of continuous and increasing sales of these wonderful toy pianos. When buying a Toy Piano be sure the name "Schoenhut" appears on the front of the Piano; any other name appearing designates that it is not a "Schoenhut." Toy Pianos are far more than toys; they teach a love of music from the time a tot can strike a key. The keys in the keyboard are spaced accurately the same as in a big piano. Each "Schoenhut" Toy Piano is correctly tuned, and will never get out of tune. 

Due to the expense of store-bought toys many hobbyists created home-made toys from wood and metal. Age old favorites like spinning tops and kites were complemented by more sophisticated steam engines and pumps or model aeroplanes.


The 1920’s saw a movement away from war toys which had been popular up until that time. A major change in the toy industry came about with the introduction of modern mass production methods. For the first time the industry was able to produce toys cheaply and sell to a mass market. 

Toy production was relatively limited in volume until 1927 when polystyrene was invented. Because Polystyrene is a tough, durable kind of plastic that is ideally suited to toy design, it ushered in a new world of toy development. 

Although the modern style of Teddy Bear was developed about 1907 it was only in the 1920's that its popularity took off when companies like the Knickerbocker Toy Company mass produced them. The Knickerbocker Toy Company started in 1920 and still makes teddy bears today. In the 1920s, musical bears and mechanical bears increased in popularity world-wide. The two leading manufacturers of these novelty bears, Schuco and Bing, made bears that walked, danced, played ball, and even turned somersaults. 

Likewise the Yo-Yo. It had been in existence for centuries but really took off in popularity when promoted by entrepreneur Donald Duncan after he saw it demonstrated in Los Angeles. 

Meccano Ltd was a British toy company established in 1908 by Frank Hornby in Liverpool, England to manufacture and distribute the very popular Meccano kits and other model toys created by the company. During the 1920s and 1930s it became the largest toy manufacturing company in Britain, producing three of the most popular lines of toys of the twentieth century:Meccano kits, Hornby Model Railways and Dinky Toys. In 1925 Hornby produced the first electric train sets in the world.

Goofy Maitha

i thought that i have published over 20 posts !!

today i saw that i have published just 2 and have over 20 drafts -.-'' .  

am such a goof can you believe that.

interior design logos that inspired me

Dollhouses in the 20's

Dollhouse

we all wanted one, i had a barbie dollhouse when i was young and i kept playing with it until grade nine. however till this day i really want one of those dollhouses we use to see in TV, the vintage life like one. did you ever saw that episode in the friends show when Monica's aunt died and she got her old dollhouse? my eyes popped out over that one. also in every horror movie or the ghost whisperer show dollhouses always appear, they are pretty pretty things how old we are we still want one and will play with it. 

doll houses advertisements :

Antique dollhouses :