Collector's Item: Explosions on Record 1909-1913

silver threads and you know that isn't one eventually I'm going to find what I'm looking for here the Memphis blues I know okay somewhere I'm I'm Holly he's over recording Oh looky here one of those old-time six records 1913 you know useful had to play these on their own home photographs in those days no the gramophone was a long morning glory it didn't have disc jockey Jones on the radio like we have Dave radio was really analogy used mostly by the Navy for ship seashore communication in fact it was through radio that we first heard about the sinking of the Titanic when I hit an iceberg in 1912 okay lucky you came in when you did good it shows one of the big changes that was happening in American music right about there 1919 1913 there were a lot of things happening in America most of them were being reflected in the arts but the country was in a state of agitation and so we'll talk about that little later hey I wasn't 20 bucks that's the lecture into my 10 o'clock class I stopped in at the college pharmacy to pick up a prescription and I'll show you what I found mother intestine oh yes and death and I have some pretty famous paintings I want to show you one let's see and a fireman's hat and I have some filling to spice together to show you what the movies we're doing in those days I'm going to go to my class America was surging ahead progress to the desire for better conditions were in the air and that's why this mother and pistol they represent in Timberline the progress we were making in medical science for instance dr. Walter Reid discovery down in the Panama Canal Zone that's the disease of yellow fever with being carried by a mosquito great strides were also being made pretty soon vitamins would be making their way into our diet yes new ways to make us live longer were being discovered and we're changing the works of the old-time dress he broke down the compound that's quite different from our present-day drug they say would cure anything from strained eyebrows to falling arches in the candy in the glass jar on the power always go well the treatment mother or father well no for item number two marvellous now job hopping down the street from relative of fire wagons with it would be here to the top of it you know what's happening in America what was the life like that her artists were represented here just to make sure that I don't give you the wrong information I'm going to get a couple of crackers I think I'll make my self confident America from 99 to 1913 wasn't too far different from the America I told you about when we were together before the demand for reform in fact we see coming a fair sort of like a style the word humanitarian we was in the air everyone from rich to poor was doing something that had something to do with we saw here these pictures our new hero like to show you would this is William K Vanderbilt millionaire philanthropist and Andrew Carnegie gained ten million dollars in 1910 to start the Carnegie Endowment for international peace and along with this added idealism we still have big business expanding we're a strong feeling of progress and faith in ourselves partly changed president William Taft had replaced Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson was keen to be placed as he was doing these years to that America was really practicing imperialism all right pretty big word but the easiest way to explain it is to say that one when one large powerful country goes into a way to country and stays there well sometimes there is a real desire to help develop the country or rid of a dictator that's how Roosevelt and Wilson described our activities in Central America and sometimes there was a lot of money to be made to members of the new Progressive Party calling for reforms of all times labeled our actions as dollar diplomacy which meant some economic factors were the real reason for our taking an active part in the affairs of foreign country my little bear my nephew Jimmy quite a boy I wonder what he wants this time why do you keep that stuff packed in here I'll make your room at home is piled to the ceiling huh oh and you think I can swing over there without going home first where my boy I'm reading about America in 19 what I read I don't think you're giving it a fair chance where were we in 1912 no that was the gear when Woodrow Wilson Teddy Roosevelt William cat and Eugene debb's we're all running for the Presidency what a campaign Theodore rose and here's Eugene dead and how they battled back and flow back and forth but the man who finally came out on top was Woodrow no once himself that the working man needed the battery and his promises to the South fighting over now lady was a lot better off than it had been in 1904 but improvement was still slow and when will she established the Department of Labor in 1913 it was after much unrest right the unions were trying to help for the two most important ones were the American Federation of Labor headed by Samuel Gompers the IWW international working for the world small influence working especially for the unskilled labor it was led by big bill Hayes he was a colorful on the IWW but it was done through some mighty vigilance led astray so in general their methods were just too radical for me to survive time which labor claim was anti labor was bombed by the McNamara both work using the I got when you go now even though Samuel Gompers tried to help them that's him there in the middle he took a long time for labour to recover from the bad reaction to this exposure we're along with the stories of labor unrest and political activity people read in 1912 about the ship Titanic hitting an iceberg remember I mentioned it a minute ago but I want to show you here a paper getting pretty yellow with ease now tell us all about it hundreds dive great ship sinks mighty Titanic hit by iceberg goes down with 1,200 souls Wireless Saenz lives of many that was just a little shaver at that time but I still remember what a comparable thing that one where rumblings were going on in another part of our lives to use rumblings which finally led to an explosion in rural places the archfield several artists and sculptors in New York City rallied together in 1913 to exhibit their work you know and not an established academy would accept this stuff so they had to exhibit in the armory well they decided to show not only their own paintings but to flavor their exhibit a little with some new modern art fall abroad when it was this new modern art from abroad that stole ashore and creating the explosion in the art field as loud is the sinking of the Titanic or the explosion of the Los Angeles Times you know the public at first hated and misunderstood this new modern art but actually if it's about wholesome things that could have happened the Armory Show became front-page news it was something to argue about a how could an art exhibition don't the public so much when I say public I mean OD small social levels the millionaire came no to these kokanee shoulders now this frank and honest' pictures of american life like we talked about last time we were together could cause a minor upheaval imagine what something like this would do this modern works by Marcel Duchamp illustrates a style of painting called cubism the title of this one is nude descending a staircase remember that most Americans were quite this quite remote from our fares and were generally unaware of the experiments going on in European art the painting work sculpture at the Armory Joel were little girls Louis Katy and women drying their hair and even one man's imagine it keeps you as a brand you will work building tallest building in the world that time some respected modern trends some painted the American team and some were the results of our young artists studying abroad well that was the Armory Show of 1913 which became the most influential art exhibition ever held in America and today the shapes the angle patterns of modernism are reflected in our automobiles for airplane furniture even our clothing and of course industrial designs of all times quite a show wouldn't you say by the display of fireworks in the armory wasn't the only display during this period of 1999 teen 13 a year before the Armory Show something happened that gave the whole country over oh no one knows quite how the explosion started in the music and dance world but they had a pretty good idea who lets a match to it all back in the early nineteen hundred's somewhere down the deep south a new way of paying the old music called syncopation began to take shape it'll pay the lights were sped up from the temple quickly this music became known as ragtime and was played in the hospital the Cabaret then in 1912 Along Came Irving Berlin the man with a match starts the fire with his Alexander's ragtime band and that song virtually lifted ragtime rides piano strings right up out of the dives to the dances of high society and soon all America was rocking to the rhythms of ragtime when it didn't take long for the people to find that they could dance to those ragged rhythms as well as sing to saw imagine how bad must have felt when he lost me around again believe the merry Whittle well was suddenly replaced by these ragtime see what I mean these new dancers were something to be alarmed about well it was bad enough that the women curtains were getting shorter but the idea that they should shimmy and shake was almost too much and what dances they shook themselves too funny but all the dancers were named after animals there was the foxtrot and the bunny hug and the turkey trot the grizzly bear in the chicken scratch in the camel wall and so on and on and on then that's the bottom of it all they started to wear hobble skirt and they were so narrow at the bottom that there wasn't much left to do but kind of Kimmy from the ankles enough well that in itself was one reason why many people objected to these new dance steps so after the craze had been going along for a while there appeared on the scene a couple named Vernon and Irene they were two outstanding dance teachers whose Grace and art showed that the new steps could be dance to unobjectionable and so their turkey trot and their tango started our modern ballroom dancing of today for ragtime wasn't all it was happening to music them well the Russian ballet star pavlova she made her American debut 1910 and this is a song Al Jolson made popular he had to get under whereas this is the time when those beautiful operettas Oh see if I can think of some of them chocolate soldier naughty Marietta the Red Mill for all going strong and oh yes how quickly forgot that Memphis blues record I want you to hear that let's see if we can find it now yeah here is the Memphis blues it was really the first of the Trudy's song written by William C's handy he was an Alabama Negro who managed a minstrel show - then a little later on he composed the st. Louis Blues and from then on he was the father of the well I was just looking for this one wasn't having too much success the projection issues so say I bet you thought I never was going to stop from the Clayton's were over the other night when I wonder how the places fell Title II my bringing the coffee at 11:30 you must admit that well you have gone on the wrong time you know they never did here there was talk to the Griffith movie that I wanted to show them well you just have a chair there dear we'll set up the projector and we have a look at huge spectacle and undoubtedly the best constructed movie up to that date Oh undoubtedly but even if he had done nothing more than this he would still be an outstanding man he developed the camera techniques that are still used in the movies today he believes that the camera could be a dramatic tool well it is in fact a good many morality jammers were being filmed there seems like a lot of the movies were preaching at that time well if you don't stop talk more I know the star creature I was just getting interested in the corner well you see I just have a few parts of the film splice together to show to my class to illustrates what the movies we're doing at that time 1913 period between remember between nineteen eight nine thirteen when the movies were really commenting on society they were pointed out more or less and exposing corruption and pretty cars and shooting Indians I think if you're referring to the cowboy weapon well this was the time when they started but you must remember this cowboy really typifies the American ideal of Star Wars Burcu let's have a look there yeah the colorful character the entire mix requite the race otherwise yes I thought he would but seriously drunkle billion crying babies with a small part of the film world for those movie makers were exposing politics you know the producer was usually on the side of the employer it seemed like the only way they'd ever solve their problems was to have the generous buff forgive the lazy and mislead workers very much of a nation but you know movies were taking sides on social issues of the day use propaganda tools the force under those circumstances sometimes the fact got a little blurry they also reflected the progressive spirit of a time in the realistic way that they look at minority group I dropped my a gasoline flatiron on the table of Jimmy's new model airplane and I promised to might get him a new year Oster would you bring down a screwdriver yeah sometimes when extra comes down we get to talking I forget to tell you some of the things I want to talk about well movies at this time were really commenting all the time and so had the theater now this was also the time of the beautiful and well-made play a man who helped this along with William Vaughn Moody he'd written to play a couple of years back called the Great Divide which was a huge success now this was something new for the American theatre you see as a poet coming into the theatre yes Moody was a great port a very great boy and the thing I like best about him was his realism probably due to his influence many of our great poets then started to publish their work Carl Sandburg Robert Frost all writing realistically and ending a is pretty sterile period in American politics I wish I had time to read you some of it but maybe next time well pick it up tomorrow news for you my welcome the help my wife can help me we are going to Hartman Guinea was played by Tommy Kim