| 1 | [[quoteright:315:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1929_wall_street_crash_headlines.jpeg]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:315: [[FromBadToWorse It]] [[CrapsackWorld gets]] [[UsefulNotes/TheHolodomor worse]] [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany as]] [[UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar the]] [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar decade]] [[WarWasBeginning ends.]]]] |
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| 4 | ->''"They used to tell me I was building a dream\ |
| 5 | With peace and glory ahead\ |
| 6 | Why should I be standing in line\ |
| 7 | Just waiting for bread?"'' |
| 8 | -->-- '''E. Y. "Yip" Harburg''', "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" |
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| 10 | The Great Depression / The Dirty Thirties: Home to dust bowl farmers, reedy-voiced folk singers and rail-riding {{hobos}}. Life pretty much sucks unless you're lucky enough to be a rich socialite, in which case you should expect to get involved in a wacky {{screwball comedy}}, which may or may not involve either [[Film/TheThreeStooges three short, bumbling men named Moe, Larry and Curly]] or [[Creator/MarxBrothers two fast-talkers named Groucho and Chico and their mute accomplice Harpo]]. (As the Depression drove prices plummeting through the floor, those who had been able to avoid getting wiped out in the crash suddenly found their money increasing in value.) Or, if you're a woman, you could ditch the Dust Bowl and head off to Hollywood, become a movie actress, dye your hair platinum blonde, and don [[PimpedOutDress long, sexy gowns]] on premiere night, showing off some [[SexyBacklessOutfit tanned skin]]. |
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| 12 | Otherwise, you would be scraping to survive, as Creator/JohnSteinbeck wrote about in ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'' and ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''. For some, it was a time to run wild and take what they wanted from the fat cats who exploited the people, as one of the ''Film/PublicEnemies'' like John Dillinger or the bank-robbing couple ''Film/BonnieAndClyde''. Others found more constructive paths, such as the folk singer Music/WoodyGuthrie, who rode the rails ''Film/BoundForGlory'', giving voice to the underprivileged, or the many pulp-novel writers and newspaper-strip artists who were busily concocting ProtoSuperhero stories. Meanwhile, [[Creator/JerrySiegelAndJoeShuster two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland]] managed to sell their seemingly-preposterous story of a [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} titanically powerful hero dressed in blue tights and red cape]], in the process [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks changing the burgeoning comic book medium forever]] with a whole new [[{{Superhero}} fantasy genre]]. |
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| 14 | Against this, President UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover found himself completely in over his head, [[HeadInTheSandManagement refusing to accept the reality of how bad the times were]], while blindly mouthing absurd statements like "Prosperity is just around the corner."[[note]]Though for the record, [[BeamMeUpScotty he never said those exact words.]][[/note]] He was replaced by UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt, who attempted to pull America out of the economic ruin with his New Deal. |
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| 16 | The period extends from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 up until the beginning of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and the New York World's Fair in 1939 (the war being the political endpoint, the fair the cultural one), although in the U.S. the holdovers would last until December 1941 (see ChandlerAmericanTime). Also, due to the country's industry becoming devoted almost exclusively to wartime production, America's ''civilian'' economy didn't fully recover until roughly 1950. Note that in RealLife there were several sub-periods; the Hoover years, the New Deal years up to 1937, and a second recession and subsequent 1939–41 recovery that was just picking up steam when the war build-up started. Also, large European countries experienced the worst, most [[CrapsackWorld nightmarish]] part of the Depression during 1930–32, with unemployment and widespread poverty being used as a springboard to power for [[DayOfTheJackboot fascist dictators]] who scapegoated minority groups for the populace's problems (while also dismantling worker unions). |
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| 18 | It should also be noted that the mass suicides of financial professionals (jumping from office buildings or hanging) of 1929 are a long-standing {{Urban Legend|s}} -- only about twenty people killed themselves immediately after the Crash and about one hundred in all. 23,000 people did kill themselves over the Depression's first year, though. |
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| 20 | Also see: TheRoaringTwenties, TheForties, TheFifties, TheSixties, TheSeventies, TheEighties, TheNineties, TurnOfTheMillennium, TheNewTens, and TheNewTwenties for more decade nostalgia. |
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| 22 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [[folder:Thirties Slang]] |
| 25 | !!As [[TheRoaringTwenties the decade before]], slang is a {{Serious B|usiness}}eeswax, and it sticks on to-day. |
| 26 | * "Abercombie" - a know-it-all |
| 27 | * "Abyssinia" - I be seein' ya, get it? |
| 28 | * "All the way" - for {{Sweet Tooth}}s, it's chocolate cake of fudge |
| 29 | * "Apple" - any big town or city, like the BigApplesauce |
| 30 | * "Babe", "broad", "doll", "dame", "muffin" or "kitten" - just some of the many ways to call a woman |
| 31 | * "Baby" - milk |
| 32 | * "Bacon" or "bread" - something you bring home after work. It's a cabbage and is given by your big cheese. |
| 33 | * "Beat" - broke |
| 34 | * "Bean shooter" - gun |
| 35 | * "Behind the grind" - Behind in one's studies |
| 36 | * "Big house" or "hoosegow" - prison |
| 37 | * "Blinkers", "peepers" or "shutters" - eyes |
| 38 | * "Blow your wig" - getting excited |
| 39 | * "Booze", "hooch", "giggle water" - whiskey |
| 40 | * "Brodie" - a mistake |
| 41 | * "Brunos", "goons", "hatchetmen", "torpedoes", "trigger men" - HiredGuns |
| 42 | * "Bulge" - take advantage |
| 43 | * "Booping gums" or "booshwash" - talking applesauce or nothing useful at all |
| 44 | * "Butter and egg fly" - a hot babe |
| 45 | * "Butter and egg man" - the money man |
| 46 | * "Buzzer" - police badge |
| 47 | * "Cabbage" - the colour of money |
| 48 | * "Canary" - female vocalist |
| 49 | * "Cats" and "alligators" - swing fan |
| 50 | * "Cave" - your house |
| 51 | * "Check" - a buck |
| 52 | * "Chicago overcoat" - coffin |
| 53 | * "Chicago typewriter" - Tommy Gun |
| 54 | * "Chisel" - swindle or cheat |
| 55 | * "City juice" - glass of water |
| 56 | * "Clam-bake" - wild swing |
| 57 | * "Clip joint" - [[NightlifeIndex the nightclub]] |
| 58 | * "Copper" - policeman |
| 59 | * "Crumb" - [[ThisLoserIsYou a loser by social standards]] |
| 60 | * "Crust" - to insult |
| 61 | * "Cute as a bug's ear" - very [[UsefulNotes/{{Kawaisa}} kawaii]] |
| 62 | * "Dead hoofer" or "cement mixer" - [[ICantDance bad dancer]] |
| 63 | * [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney "Dick", "gumshoe",]] "flatfoot" - detective |
| 64 | ** "Cinder dick" - railroad detective |
| 65 | ** "House dick" - house detective |
| 66 | * "Dig" - think deeper |
| 67 | * "Dingy" - silly |
| 68 | * "Dizzy with a dame" - crazy in love, sometimes risky if she's a moll |
| 69 | * "Dog house" - string bass |
| 70 | * "Doggy" - SharpDressedMan |
| 71 | * "Dollface" - name for a woman when a man is pleading his case or apologizing |
| 72 | * "Drilling", "plugging", "throwing lead" - shooting a gun |
| 73 | * "Drumsticks" or "gams" - legs |
| 74 | * "Dukes", "grabbers", "meat hooks" - hands |
| 75 | * "Egg" - crude person |
| 76 | * "Egg harbor" - free dance |
| 77 | * "Eggs in coffee" - run in smoothly |
| 78 | * "Fem", "filly", "flame", fuss - [[ClingyJealousGirl constant girl companion to a boy]] |
| 79 | * "Five spot" or "a Lincoln" - five bucks |
| 80 | * "Genius" - dumbass |
| 81 | * "G-man" - federal agent |
| 82 | * "Gobble-pipe" - saxophone |
| 83 | * "Greaseball", "jelly bean", "wet sock" - an unpopular person |
| 84 | * "Grifter" - ConMan |
| 85 | * "Gumming the works" - opposite of "eggs in coffee" |
| 86 | * "Hocks" or "plates" - feet |
| 87 | * "Honey cooler" - a kiss |
| 88 | * "Hog", "jolly up", "rag" or "romp" - a dance, party or dance party! |
| 89 | * "Hotsquat" - electric chair |
| 90 | * "Joe" - average guy |
| 91 | * "Juicy" - enjoyable |
| 92 | * "Keen" and "kippy" - very neet and very good |
| 93 | * "Low down" - all the information |
| 94 | * "Make tracks" or "dangle" - leave in a jiffy |
| 95 | * "Meat wagon" - ambulance |
| 96 | * "Micky" - drink with drugs |
| 97 | * "Mitt me kid" - congratulate me! |
| 98 | * "Murder!" - WOW! |
| 99 | * "Nuts!" - telling someone they are full of booping gums and applesauce |
| 100 | * "Off the cob" - corny |
| 101 | * "Packing heat" - carrying a gun |
| 102 | * "Pally" - friend or chum, sometimes used sarcastically |
| 103 | * "Pitching woo" - making love |
| 104 | * "Platter" - [[WhatAreRecords a record]] |
| 105 | * "Ring-a-ding-ding" - someone having a good time at a hog |
| 106 | * "Sawbuck" - ten bucks |
| 107 | * "Scat singer" - improvising vocalist |
| 108 | * "Scrub" - poor student |
| 109 | * "Shake a leg" - hurry up |
| 110 | * "Skin tackler" - drummer |
| 111 | * "Sourdough" - counterfeit money |
| 112 | * "Squat" - nothing |
| 113 | * "Stool pigeon" or "snitch" - someone who informs the cops |
| 114 | * "Take the rap" - taking responsibility of the crime |
| 115 | * "The kiss off" - the final goodbye |
| 116 | * "Tin ear" or "ickie" - someone who does not like popular music, much not unlike the {{hipster}} a decade later. |
| 117 | * "Togged to the bricks" - dressed up |
| 118 | * "Whacky" - crazy |
| 119 | * "What's the story, morning glory?" - what do you mean by that? |
| 120 | * "Wheat" - CountryMouse |
| 121 | * "Yo!" - Yes |
| 122 | * "You and me both" - And how! |
| 123 | * "You shred it, wheat" - You said it. |
| 124 | [[/folder]] |
| 125 | ---- |
| 126 | [[folder:Popular tropes from this time period]] |
| 127 | * TwentiesBobHaircut: Short hair for women was still the rage throughout the decade, although it's less Louise Brooks style sleek and more wavy and permed. Eventually, hairstyles grew longer by the end of the decade ranging from updos to pageboy style bobs. |
| 128 | * AdventurerArchaeologist: Before ''Franchise/IndianaJones'', there were TwoFistedTales of headstrong adventurers venturing into scorching deserts and deep jungles in search of artifacts. |
| 129 | * TheAllegedCar: The worn-out, dented jalopies that carried people west from the Dust Bowl. The [[Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath Joads']] is an example. |
| 130 | * ArtDeco in its sleek, streamlined form. |
| 131 | * {{Blackface}}: Still very popular during this era. |
| 132 | * BoomTown: Despite the economic situation, [[WarWasBeginning and an upcoming war]], cities like UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}}, UsefulNotes/{{Singapore}} and UsefulNotes/{{Manila}} flourished in this decade. |
| 133 | * CoolCar: The sweeping, chrome-awash designs of the 1933-1940 age. |
| 134 | * CrapsackWorld: Pretty much mandatory if you're portraying the common peoples' life -- it basically ''was''. |
| 135 | * CurtainClothing: In an austere time, where fabric was a commodity, some women resort to sewing clothes out of feed sacks, hence they are called "feedsack dresses." |
| 136 | * DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Even more so after the repeal on Prohibition in America. Just ask Bonnie and Clyde, or the Barker family. |
| 137 | * DanceSensation: Creator/FredAstaire and Creator/GingerRogers ruled this trope. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And swing.]] |
| 138 | * DancingIsSeriousBusiness: Dance marathons raged across the Dust Bowl with a myriad of couples dancing their way to exhaustion just to get their prize worth only a handful of money. The longest marathon lasted for 10 months. |
| 139 | * DeadlyDustStorm: This was busy happening in the Dust Bowl -- the dust storms blew so thick and long that people and animals would be permanently blinded or choke to death on them. They could generate such high amounts of static electricity that car motors would short out if not grounded, leading to people living in the Dust Bowl attaching lengths of chain to the undercarriage that would drag on the ground. A particularly massive dust storm blew all the way to Washington DC, further cementing this trope into the minds of Americans around the country at the time. |
| 140 | * DieselPunk: Adding to the nit and grit of futuristic machines is the nit and grit of the Dirty Thirties. |
| 141 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: Hollywood kickstarted the platinum blonde as an ideal of beauty, with Creator/JeanHarlow, Creator/CaroleLombard, Creator/GingerRogers, Creator/MarleneDietrich, and Creator/GretaGarbo as endearing icons of fair hair. |
| 142 | * ForeignCultureFetish: |
| 143 | ** For the people whose fortunes had survived during this economic atmosphere, and for those who could afford it, they would venture out to faraway destinations like Africa with its savannahs, jungles, wild beasts, and the occasional [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} feral man]] in leopard print, or to the beaches in the Mediterranean and the South Pacific where they would bask their fair skin to the sunlight. |
| 144 | ** In the late 1930s up to the onset of war, inspired by the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Alpine-themed stuff like alphorns, lederhosen, full-skirted dirndls, yodeling, and skiing came into fashion. |
| 145 | * FromBadToWorse: The Crash of '29 was merely the appetizer, while [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the main course]] is still out there, sizzling in the pan. |
| 146 | * TheGayNineties: A very popular NostalgiaFilter of the era. |
| 147 | * GenteelInterbellumSetting: The '30s steadfastly becomes less and less genteel as war on the horizon, but the parties go on with the men in fine tuxedos and the women in long slinky backless dresses, with the occasional mystery case handled by Hercule Poirot. |
| 148 | * GiantPoofySleeves: With the influence of Creator/JoanCrawford's frilly sleeved evening dress in ''Film/LettyLynton'' in 1932, frilly puff sleeves became a thing, first in evening dresses, then in day dresses, and finally becoming more robust with shoulder pads at the end of the 1930s. |
| 149 | * GirlinessUpgrade: Androgynous flapper fashion becomes unfashionable due to the socio-economic situation. In response, the fashions reverted back to femininity, with the waistlines going up and hemlines going down. Floral prints and polka dots on frilly or puffy sleeved dresses of dusty pink, sea foam green, mauve, navy blue, and steel blue, topped with a hat, gloves, and scarves resembling oversized bows, became the rage of the era. |
| 150 | * The start of the golden ages of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood film]], [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation animation]], and [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicbooks comics]] |
| 151 | * {{Hobos}}: In DeepSouth settings a popular trope. |
| 152 | * MorallyBankruptBanker: In lieu of the economic crash, it was common for bankers to be depicted as having a bias for the upper class. |
| 153 | * MundaneLuxury: In spite of the economic downturn, sales of lipstick rose in this decade. Some have criticized the buyers for wasting money, while others saw it as a way to boost spirits. Thus, the term "lipstick effect" was coined. |
| 154 | * MusicOfThe1930s: As the atmosphere was tense during the decade, music became a form to unwind the worries away, with jazz becoming more mainstream and more sophisticated, and with the radio and the cinema boosting it up to the masses. |
| 155 | ** BigBand: Many jazz bands were lead by a band leader: Music/CountBasie, Music/DukeEllington, Music/BennyGoodman and Music/GlennMiller. |
| 156 | ** {{Bluegrass}} and CountryMusic: Very popular during this era, though only in the USA. |
| 157 | ** {{Blues}}: ''Delta Blues'' music was very prominent in the USA, with Music/RobertJohnson as the most iconic example, but would only get extraordinarily popular in the 1960s. |
| 158 | ** {{Jazz}}: Just like the 1920s jazz was still enormously popular worldwide. It got a bigger explosion when swing came around to cut the rug. |
| 159 | ** TheMusical: Many of Hollywood's films tended to be musical and upbeat, because it wasn't called "The Great Depression" for nothing, people needed to be cheered up. Because of this, the motion picture industry was one of a small few disposal income industries that not only survived but ''thrived'' in the Great Depression. [[note]]Eventually, that is -- the U.S. industry experienced a 33% drop in ticket sales from 1929-1933, which coming on the heels of the enormous investment needed to convert from silents to sound nearly bankrupted the studios. The introduction of the BMovie and the double feature was also crucial to righting the ship.[[/note]] |
| 160 | * ScrewballComedy: Very popular genre in the 1930s. Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/KatharineHepburn being the prime stars. |
| 161 | * SharpDressedMan: This is the era of glamorous Hollywood stars in shiny tuxedos, like Creator/ClarkGable, Creator/MauriceChevalier and Creator/CaryGrant. |
| 162 | * SimpleYetOpulent: Gone are the beads and the boxy look of the flappers, but the [[PimpedOutDress Pimped Out Dresses]] of silk, satin and velvet flared with a bias-cut trimming and occasional prints and frills make them equally elegant on the silver screen. |
| 163 | ** FashionableAsymmetry: the bias cut look, the angled necklines and the off-balanced hats make them fashionable. |
| 164 | ** HighClassGloves: For daywear, gloves for women became a must, giving accent to any length and type of the sleeve. Unless you were part of the royal family or a high-society club, or the occasion requires gloves, the arms were usually bare for evening wear. |
| 165 | ** SexyBacklessOutfit: The trend for women exposing their backs on bias-cut and halter-neck long gowns started during this decade. It's even more pimped out thanks to UsefulNotes/CocoChanel and rising designers like Adrian and UsefulNotes/ElsaSchiaparelli. |
| 166 | * {{Slapstick}}: The worldwide success of Creator/LaurelAndHardy, Creator/CharlieChaplin, Creator/TheMarxBrothers, Creator/WCFields, Film/TheThreeStooges made this a golden era. |
| 167 | * SmokingIsGlamorous: Hollywood movies made cigarette smoking look incredibly stylish. Trendsetters are Creator/MarleneDietrich, Creator/BetteDavis and Creator/HumphreyBogart. |
| 168 | * {{Surrealism}}: Became very popular in this decade as a remedy for the Depression. It gave us melting clocks by Creator/SalvadorDali, floating apples on faces and [[OlderThanYouThink an early case of]] {{m|emeticMutation}}anbabies by Creator/ReneMagritte, and hot pink lobster dresses by UsefulNotes/ElsaSchiaparelli. |
| 169 | * ThievesCant: Traveling vagrants developed a cant of symbols to leave messages for other vagrants. A symbol might mean someone in a nearby house is willing to provide a meal or a place to sleep, for instance. |
| 170 | * {{Trope Maker}}s and {{Trope Codifier}}s of the decade. Thanks to radio and Hollywood, we got: |
| 171 | ** AdolfHitlarious: He was already mocked throughout the 1930s, but this trope would only become more prevalent during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 172 | ** AdorablyPrecociousChild: The main reason why Creator/ShirleyTemple became such a iconic star. Shirley's less-remembered male counterpart was "America's Boy"; Creator/JackieCooper. |
| 173 | ** AllGermansAreNazis: When Hitler took power in 1933, this became a staple. |
| 174 | ** AmericanGothicCouple: Grant Wood's 1930 painting "American Gothic" debuted in this era, becoming a StockParody later. |
| 175 | ** BusbyBerkeleyNumber: This was the heyday of Hollywood musicals with long impressively choreographed dance routines. It would eventually become a StockParody of its own. |
| 176 | ** DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce: Disney's association with cute cartoon animals, especially helpful forest animals like in ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'' would pave the way for many [[StockParody stock parodies]] in the future. |
| 177 | ** {{Disneyesque}}: Their child friendly style was imitated by many cartoons from this era. |
| 178 | ** {{Flynning}}: The success of Creator/ErrolFlynn made sword fighting in this fashion popular. |
| 179 | ** FunnyForeigner: The trope existed before, but with the arrival of sound many Hollywood actors of foreign descent could be mocked for their silly accents: Creator/PeterLorre, Creator/BelaLugosi, Creator/GretaGarbo, Creator/MauriceChevalier |
| 180 | ** KingKongClimb: A StockParody popularized by ''Film/KingKong1933''. |
| 181 | ** MauriceChevalierAccent: As soon as sound movies and musicals became popular Creator/MauriceChevalier became a world wide star, with his voice eventually becoming a StockParody. |
| 182 | ** MrAltDisney: Creator/WaltDisney would become a StockParody in the decades beyond. |
| 183 | ** OffToSeeTheWizard: ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' debuted in 1939, but would only become popular in the TV era of the 1950s, thus making the film a StockParody from that moment on. |
| 184 | ** StockNessMonster: Has been popping out in media ever since its first photographed sighting in a lake in Scotland in 1933. |
| 185 | ** ThreeStoogesShoutOut: Film/TheThreeStooges debuted during this era and would inspire many shout-outs and StockParody references in the decades that would follow. |
| 186 | ** TropaholicsAnonymous: This support group that has been a subject of StockParody since it came to inception two years after Prohibition was repealed. |
| 187 | ** VineSwing: Popularized by the ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' movies with Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller. |
| 188 | * VagabondBuddies: What could emphasize "misery loves company" than the (mis)adventures of [[Creator/CharlieChaplin The Tramp]] or [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen Lennie and George]]? |
| 189 | * {{Zipperiffic}}: The decade made zippers more innovative in many things like bags and clothes. |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | ---- |
| 192 | [[index]] |
| 193 | !!Works set in this time period: |
| 194 | |
| 195 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 196 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' had a strip about the Great Depression, explaining it in a very simple way; America got sick and spread it to the other European countries. [[spoiler: In the end, however, Russia was unaffected due to the fact that Russia was socialist, America, England, and France were helped out by their colonies, but Germany, Italy, and Japan, not having as much colonies, got the shorter end of the stick and suffered throughout.]] |
| 197 | ** In actual history, Germany probably would have still suffered, Depression or no Depression, because of the WWI reparations that the nation was being forced to pay. |
| 198 | ** In fact, part of Germany's motivation behind becoming an Axis Power was mentioned as a combination of both the Depression and Versailles reparations. |
| 199 | * ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'' is set in 1938. |
| 200 | * ''Montana Jones'', a clear takeoff on a certain [[Franchise/IndianaJones adventuring archeologist]] starring anthropomorphic animals, is set in 1930. |
| 201 | * ''Anime/NightRaid1931'' is set in 1931 China, right before the Japanese invasion of Manchuria which ultimately led to the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar. |
| 202 | * ''Anime/TenrouSiriusTheJaeger'' takes place in 1930s. Specifically before the World War II started. |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 206 | * ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}''. Series started in 1929. |
| 207 | ** ''Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo'' (1931). |
| 208 | ** ''Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica'' (1932). |
| 209 | ** ''Recap/TintinCigarsOfThePharaoh'' (1934). |
| 210 | ** ''Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus'' (1936). |
| 211 | ** ''Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar'' (1937). |
| 212 | ** ''Recap/TintinTheBlackIsland'' (1938). |
| 213 | ** ''Recap/TintinKingOttokarsSceptre'' (1939). |
| 214 | * ''ComicStrip/QuickAndFlupke'' (Franchise started in 1930). |
| 215 | * ''Franchise/TheDCU''. Established with the publication of ''New Fun Comics'' #1 (February, 1935). |
| 216 | * ''ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko''. Debuted in 1936. |
| 217 | * ''ComicBook/CaptainGravity'': Debuted in 1998, set in 1938. |
| 218 | * ''ComicBook/TheDandy''. Magazine launched in December, 1937. |
| 219 | * ''Magazine/{{Spirou}}''. Magazine launched in April, 1938, as ''Le Journal de Spirou''. |
| 220 | * ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio''. Spirou first appeared in April, 1938, in the first issue of ''Le Journal de Spirou''. |
| 221 | * ''ComicBook/TheBeano''. Magazine launched in July, 1938. |
| 222 | * An unnamed office boy debuted in November, 1938. He was eventually given a name, ComicBook/JimmyOlsen. |
| 223 | * ComicBook/SubMariner. The character debuted in April, 1939. |
| 224 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}''. The character debuted in May, 1939. |
| 225 | * ''ComicBook/WonderManFox''. The character debuted in May, 1939. |
| 226 | * Abigail "Ma" Hunkel. The character debuted in June, 1939. She would later become the ComicBook/RedTornado. |
| 227 | * The Sandman/Wesley Dodds. The character debuted in July, 1939. |
| 228 | ** The ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre featured retro stories, taking place in this era. However some of these stories were dated to 1938, pre-dating the original Sandman stories. |
| 229 | * ComicBook/BlueBeetle[=/=]Dan Garret. The character debuted in August, 1939. |
| 230 | * The Franchise/MarvelUniverse debuted in October, 1939 with the publication of ''"Marvel Comics''" #1. |
| 231 | * Recent ComicBook/CaptainAmerica stories focusing on Steve Rogers before he got the SuperSerum -- which was actually before the US officially entered the war -- count. |
| 232 | * ''Film/RoadToPerdition'' |
| 233 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''. The character debuted in June, 1938. |
| 234 | ** [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]]. The character debuted in June, 1938. |
| 235 | ** ''ComicBook/ActionComics'': Superman's birthplace, started publication in June, 1938. |
| 236 | *** ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber1''. Published in June, 1938 |
| 237 | *** ''ComicBook/RevolutionInSanMonte''. Published in July, 1938. |
| 238 | *** ''ComicBook/TheBlakelyMineDisaster''. Published in August, 1938. |
| 239 | ** ''ComicBook/Superman1939'': Superman's second magazine and first solo book started publication in June, 1939. |
| 240 | *** ''ComicBook/SupermanNumber1''. Published in June, 1939. |
| 241 | *** ''ComicBook/TheKMetalFromKrypton''. It was supposed to come out in ''Superman (1939)'' #8. Created in 1940. |
| 242 | ** The story of ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'' begins in 1939, featuring the first meeting between Superman and Batman. |
| 243 | ** ''ComicBook/Superboy1949'': While initial ComicBook/{{Superboy}} stories were vague on their setting, starting in [[TheFifties the late 50s]], Superboy stories were explicitly set in the 1930s, likely under the logic of 1938 being Superman's first appearance. Superboy would stay set during the Depression (even meeting Bonnie and Clyde in a 1968 story) until a 1971 retooling placed him on a [[ComicBookTime sliding timeline]] and in the 1950s. |
| 244 | * ''ComicBook/MarvelNoir'' is set around the 1930s. |
| 245 | ** ''ComicBook/SpiderManNoir'' |
| 246 | ** ''ComicBook/PunisherNoir'' |
| 247 | ** ''ComicBook/LukeCageNoir'' |
| 248 | ** ''ComicBook/XMenNoir'' |
| 249 | * ''ComicBook/NightRaven'' was initially set in the 1930s. Since both the main character and his archenemy are immortals, later stories were set in the 1970s. |
| 250 | * Some relatively recent [[ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics Disney comics]] have stories set in this period: |
| 251 | ** The eleventh chapter of ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' features Scrooge going to New York right after the Crash and literally buying ''everything'', before finally returning to Duckburg. |
| 252 | ** The Italian saga ''Once Upon a Time... In America'' ends some time after the Crash, with Mickey's father being a millionaire who sold his company ''the day before the Crash''. |
| 253 | ** The saga of Fantomius (GentlemanThief) is set in the RoaringTwenties, but a time travel episode states that the title character retired because, in the Great Depression, he had no reason to exist anymore, only to prepare himself for a successor when the time would be right. The most recent stories are set in the Great Depression and are leading up to his retirement. |
| 254 | * ''ComicBook/VolcanicRevolver''. Released in January 1999. |
| 255 | * ''ComicBook/JewGangster'' takes place in the middle of the Great Depression. |
| 256 | [[/folder]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 259 | * ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse. Most of these characters were introduced in the comic strip by Creator/FloydGottfredson. |
| 260 | ** WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse. Adapted to the medium in January, 1930. |
| 261 | ** WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse. Adapted to the medium in January, 1930. |
| 262 | ** Clarabelle Cow. Adapted to the medium in April, 1930. |
| 263 | ** Horace Horsecollar. Adapted to the medium in April, 1930. |
| 264 | ** WesternAnimation/{{Pete}}. Adapted to the medium in April, 1930. |
| 265 | ** Sylvester Shyster. First appeared in April, 1930. |
| 266 | ** Uncle Mortimer. First appeared in April, 1930. |
| 267 | ** WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup. Adapted to the medium in July, 1931. |
| 268 | ** Captain Nathaniel Churchmouse. First appeared in May, 1932. |
| 269 | ** Mortimer ("Morty") and Ferdinand ("Ferdie") Fieldmouse. First appeared in September, 1932. |
| 270 | ** Professors Ecks, Doublex and Triplex. First appeared in November, 1932. |
| 271 | ** WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}. Adapted to the medium in January, 1933. |
| 272 | ** Captain Doberman. First appeared in February, 1933. |
| 273 | ** Gloomy. First appeared in February, 1933. |
| 274 | ** Tanglefoot. First appeared in June, 1933. |
| 275 | ** Eli Squinch. First appeared in July, 1934. |
| 276 | ** Mortimer Mouse. First appeared in January, 1936. |
| 277 | ** Detective Casey. First appeared in July, 1938. |
| 278 | ** Chief O'Hara. First appeared in May, 1939. |
| 279 | ** The Phantom Blot. First appeared in May, 1939. |
| 280 | * ''ComicStrip/Blondie1930''. First appeared in September, 1930. Still ongoing (and updated via ComicBookTime). |
| 281 | * ''ComicStrip/LilAbner''. First appeared in August, 1934. |
| 282 | * ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse. Most of these characters debuted in the comic strips written by Ted Osborne and drawn by Al Taliaferro. |
| 283 | ** WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. Adapted to the medium in September, 1934. |
| 284 | ** Huey, Dewey and Louie. First appeared in October, 1937. Adapted for Animation in April, 1938. |
| 285 | ** Bolivar. Adapted to the medium in March, 1938. |
| 286 | ** Gus Goose. First appeared in May, 1938. Adapted for Animation in May, 1939. |
| 287 | * ''ComicStrip/DickTracy''. First appeared in October 4, 1931. |
| 288 | * ''ComicStrip/LittleLulu''. First appeared in February, 1935. |
| 289 | * ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie''. First appeared in August, 1924. |
| 290 | * ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom''. First appeared in February, 1936. |
| 291 | * ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates''. Appeared in October, 1934. |
| 292 | [[/folder]] |
| 293 | |
| 294 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 295 | * [[Fanfic/PortalThe4thMillenniumFranchise Caroline-]][[Creator/AstridLindgren on-the]][[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7072282/1/Caroline_on_the_Roof -Roof:]] If it weren't for the Great Depression, [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Aperture Science]] would be nowhere to be found. |
| 296 | * ''Fanfic/TheMetropolitanMan'' |
| 297 | * ''Fanfic/SisterFloriana'' is set in Spain, 1937, during the [[UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar Spanish Civil War.]] |
| 298 | [[/folder]] |
| 299 | |
| 300 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 301 | * ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' |
| 302 | * ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance''. Created in 1997, set in the 1930s. |
| 303 | * ''WesternAnimation/EveryonesHero'', an AllCGICartoon movie starring a boy named Yankee Irving. |
| 304 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia 2000}}''. The ''Rhapsody in Blue'' sequence, composed by Music/GeorgeGershwin, is set in 1930s New York. |
| 305 | [[/folder]] |
| 306 | |
| 307 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 308 | * ''Film/AngelsWithDirtyFaces'' |
| 309 | * ''Film/Annie1982'' |
| 310 | * ''Film/Annie1999'' |
| 311 | * ''Film/{{Atonement}}'' in the early part. |
| 312 | * ''Film/{{Australia}}'': Made in 2008, set from 1939-1942. |
| 313 | * ''Film/TheAviator'' |
| 314 | * ''Film/{{Babylon|2022}}'' |
| 315 | * ''Film/BlondieJohnson'': Made and set in 1933. The Depression drives Blondie to become a gangster. |
| 316 | * ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'' |
| 317 | * ''Film/BoundForGlory'' |
| 318 | * ''Film/{{Buddy}}'' |
| 319 | * ''Film/BurntByTheSun'': Made in 1994, set in the decade. |
| 320 | * ''Film/TheButler'': Part of the film is set in 1937 during the eponymous protagonist's teenage years. |
| 321 | * ''Film/CafeSociety'' |
| 322 | * ''Film/{{Changeling}}'' |
| 323 | * ''Film/{{Chaplin}}'': {{Biopic}} of Creator/CharlieChaplin. |
| 324 | * ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' |
| 325 | * ''Film/TheCincinnatiKid'' |
| 326 | * ''Film/CinderellaMan'' |
| 327 | * ''Film/DeathHunt'' |
| 328 | * ''Film/Dillinger1973'' |
| 329 | * ''Film/{{Dogville}}'' |
| 330 | * ''Film/EmperorOfTheNorth'' (a movie about rail-riding hobos). |
| 331 | * ''Film/TheFactsInTheCaseOfMisterHollow'' is set during the fall of 1933, as an OccultDetective investigates a {{Spooky Photograph|s}} that may contain evidence of a cult operating in Depression-era Ontario. |
| 332 | * Untitled third ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' film |
| 333 | * ''Film/TheField'' |
| 334 | * ''Film/FollowMeBoys'' |
| 335 | * ''Film/FoolsParade'' |
| 336 | * ''Film/{{Frances}}'': A 1982 {{Biopic}} about actress Frances Farmer. |
| 337 | * ''Film/{{Gandhi}}'': Made in 1982, the film tackles UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi's Salt March in 1930. |
| 338 | * ''Film/GetOnUp'': Made in 2014, part of the film takes place in 1939. |
| 339 | * ''Film/AGirlNamedSooner'': Made in 1975, set in the decade. |
| 340 | * ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1933'', made and set in the year of its title. Its {{Busby Berkeley Number}}s include "We're in the Money," where the Gold Diggers sing that they "never see a headline 'bout a breadline today," and "Remember My Forgotten Man," which obviously was inspired by "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" |
| 341 | * ''Film/GoyoAngBatangHeneral'': The epilogue happens during the lead up to the 1935 Philippine presidential election. |
| 342 | * ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'': Made in 2014, the story begins in 1932. |
| 343 | * ''Film/TheGreenMile'' |
| 344 | * ''Film/HarlemNights'' |
| 345 | * ''Film/HenryAndJune'' |
| 346 | * ''Film/HenryAndVerlin'' |
| 347 | * ''Film/HeroesForSale'' |
| 348 | * ''Film/{{The Hindenburg|1975}}'' (just about at the tail end of the period) |
| 349 | * ''Film/{{Hoodlum}}'' |
| 350 | * ''Film/{{Hugo}}'' |
| 351 | * ''Film/TheImitationGame'': Made in 2014, part of the film takes place in 1939. |
| 352 | * The original three ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies. |
| 353 | * ''Film/TheInnOfTheSixthHappiness'' |
| 354 | * ''Film/InsideDaisyClover'': Made in 1965, set in 1935. |
| 355 | * ''Film/IpMan'': Set mostly in 1937 during the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar. |
| 356 | * Part of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' takes place during this period. |
| 357 | * ''Film/JohnnyDangerously'' |
| 358 | * ''Film/TheJourneyOfNattyGann'' |
| 359 | * ''Film/{{Julia}}'' |
| 360 | * ''Film/{{King Kong|1933}}'' (1933) |
| 361 | ** ''Film/TheSonOfKong'' |
| 362 | ** ''Film/{{King Kong|2005}}'' (2005 remake of the original film) |
| 363 | * ''Film/KitKittredgeAnAmericanGirl'', made in 2008, is set in 1934. (See below under Literature for the series.) |
| 364 | * ''Film/KittyFoyle'' |
| 365 | * ''Film/KungFuHustle'' |
| 366 | * ''Film/TheLastEmperor'': Made in 1987, part of the film is set in 1934. |
| 367 | * ''Film/TheLastGangster'' (the first part takes place in 1927 however) |
| 368 | * ''Film/TheLegendOfBaggerVance'' |
| 369 | * ''Film/LittleOrphanAnnie'' (1932): An UrExample marking Annie's first feature film appearance. |
| 370 | * ''Film/MalcolmX'': Story kicks off in 1931 when the eponymous protagonist's father was murdered. |
| 371 | * ''Film/{{Manderlay}}'' - set in the 1930's. |
| 372 | * ''Film/MansCastle'' - a contemporary (for the 1930s) look at two lovers in a shantytown. |
| 373 | * ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'' |
| 374 | * ''Film/MeAndOrsonWelles'' |
| 375 | * ''Film/ModernTimes'' |
| 376 | * ''Film/MrJones2019'' - a 2019 historical drama set in 1933-1934 about the British journalist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Jones_(journalist) Gareth Jones]] going to Soviet Union and witnessing [[spoiler:the Holodomor in Ukraine.]] |
| 377 | * ''Film/TheMusicBox'' |
| 378 | * ''Film/TheNewtonBoys'' |
| 379 | * ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'' |
| 380 | * ''[[Film/{{Oscar1991}} Oscar]]'': Released in 1991, set in 1931. Based off a [[Theatre/{{Oscar}} 1960s French play]], the original was set in the then-modern era. |
| 381 | * ''Film/OurDailyBread'', in which some American workers found a collective farm of the sort that UsefulNotes/JosephStalin would have liked. |
| 382 | * ''Our Gang'' (a.k.a. ''Film/TheLittleRascals'') |
| 383 | * ''Film/PaperMoon'' |
| 384 | * ''Film/Paris36'' |
| 385 | * ''Film/PenniesFromHeaven'' |
| 386 | * ''Film/PlacesInTheHeart'' |
| 387 | * ''Film/PocketfulOfMiracles'' |
| 388 | * ''Film/PublicEnemies'' |
| 389 | * ''Film/ThePurpleRoseOfCairo'' |
| 390 | * ''Film/TheRadiolandMurders'' |
| 391 | * ''Film/{{Ray}}'': Story kicks off in 1937 when the eponymous protagonist loses his eyesight. |
| 392 | * ''Film/TheRocketeer'' |
| 393 | * ''Film/{{Seabiscuit}}'' |
| 394 | * ''Film/{{Serena}}'': 2014 film set somewhere in the decade. |
| 395 | * ''Film/TheSting'' |
| 396 | * ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'': The finale of the movie takes place just after the 1929 stock market crash. |
| 397 | * ''Film/TheyShootHorsesDontThey'' |
| 398 | * ''Film/ThievesLikeUs'' |
| 399 | * ''Film/ThisPropertyIsCondemned'' |
| 400 | * ''Film/TheThreeStooges'': Their pre-1940 shorts, obviously. |
| 401 | * ''Film/TimeCop'': One of the unauthorized time travels the protagonist busts is a man who went back to this time period to [[TimelineAlteringMacGuffin make it big in the stock market armed with future newspapers]]. |
| 402 | * ''Film/TokyoChorus'': A 1931 film focuing on the effects of the Depression in Japan; Herbert Hoover is name-checked. |
| 403 | * ''Film/UnderTheRainbow'': Set in 1938 during the filming of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. |
| 404 | * ''Film/UnionDepot'': Made during the height of the Depression, it's about a hobo and jobless chorus girl meeting at a train station. |
| 405 | * ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'': Part of which takes place during The Great Depression. |
| 406 | * ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane'': Made and mostly set in 1962, but the second prologue is set in 1935 (the first is in 1917). |
| 407 | * ''Film/WildBoysOfTheRoad'' |
| 408 | * ''Film/WildRiver'' |
| 409 | %%* ''Film/TheZookeepersWife'': Made in 2017, set in 1939. |
| 410 | [[/folder]] |
| 411 | |
| 412 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 413 | * ''Literature/AsILayDying'' (1930) |
| 414 | * ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': Much of the original novels, as well as the anime adaptation, take place during this period. |
| 415 | * ''Literature/EsperanzaRising'' (1930s) |
| 416 | * ''Literature/{{Gladiator}}'' (1930) |
| 417 | * ''Literature/TheMurderAtTheVicarage'' the first novel to star Literature/MissMarple (1930) |
| 418 | * ''Radio/TheShadow''. The first written Shadow story appeared in April, 1931. |
| 419 | * ''Literature/RollOfThunderHearMyCry'' (1933) |
| 420 | * ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery'' (1931) |
| 421 | * ''Literature/LostHorizon'' (1933) |
| 422 | * ''Literature/DocSavage''. First appeared in March, 1933. |
| 423 | * ''Literature/TheSpider''. First appeared in October, 1933. |
| 424 | * ''Literature/NeroWolfe'' The first few stories are set in the 1930s |
| 425 | ** ''Literature/FerDeLance'' (Set in June of 1933, published in 1934) |
| 426 | ** ''Literature/TheLeagueOfFrightenedMen'' (1935) |
| 427 | * ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'' with Literature/HerculePoirot (1934) |
| 428 | * ''Literature/TheyShootHorsesDontThey'' (1935) |
| 429 | * ''Literature/TheABCMurders'' with Literature/HerculePoirot (1936) |
| 430 | * ''Literature/CardsOnTheTable'' with Literature/HerculePoirot (1936) |
| 431 | * ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'' (1936) |
| 432 | * ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'' (1936) |
| 433 | * ''Literature/DeathOnTheNile'' with Literature/HerculePoirot (1937) |
| 434 | * ''Literature/JokerGame'' (Main series starts at 1937) |
| 435 | * ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' (1937) |
| 436 | * ''Literature/BrightonRock'' (1938) |
| 437 | * ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' (1939) |
| 438 | * ''Literature/TheBigSleep'' (1939) |
| 439 | * ''Literature/TheDayOfTheLocust'' (1939) |
| 440 | * ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'' (1939) |
| 441 | * ''Literature/{{Madeline}}'' (1939) |
| 442 | * ''Literature/AllTheKingsMen'' (1946) is set in this era. |
| 443 | * ''Literature/MildredPierce'' (1941) is set in this era. |
| 444 | * ''Literature/AuntieMame'' (1955) mostly takes place during this period. |
| 445 | * ''Literature/MyFamilyAndOtherAnimals'' (1956) is set from 1935 to 1939. |
| 446 | * ''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer''. The character debuted during the 1939 Christmas season. |
| 447 | * ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' (1960) is set in this era. |
| 448 | * Mentioned quite a few times in the first chapters of ''Literature/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' (1997). |
| 449 | * Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection: [[Literature/AmericanGirlsKit Kit Kittredge]] (2000) (and the 2007 [[TheMovie movie]]) starts in 1932. |
| 450 | * One section of ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise'' (2005), appropriately titled "What You Did Not Know About Hoboes" |
| 451 | * The ''Literature/YoungBond'' series (2005- 2008/2009) covers the adventures of Literature/JamesBond in this era. Events start in 1933. |
| 452 | * ''Literature/InDubiousBattle'' |
| 453 | * ''Literature/{{Biggles}}'' first appears in 1932. |
| 454 | * ''Literature/LightInAugust'' (1932) |
| 455 | * ''Literature/OutOfTheDust'' (1997) is set in this time period, an unusual ChildrensLiterature example. |
| 456 | * ''[[Literature/TheAnderssons Det fjärde rummet]]'' by Solveig Olsson-Hultgren takes place in 1932. Anna has to suffer greatly from the aftermath of the depression, as girls now have a hard time finding jobs. And yet, she has to be the bread-winner of her family. |
| 457 | * ''Dust'' (2001) by Arthur Slade |
| 458 | * * ''Literature/KingKongVsTarzan'' (1933) st in this era. |
| 459 | * ''Literature/NativeSon'': Made in 1940, set in this decade. |
| 460 | * ''Literature/MrEinsteinsSecretary'' features a large section leading up to, and set during, this time. |
| 461 | [[/folder]] |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 464 | * ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakShow'': The flashback to Elsa Mars' amputation happened in this decade. |
| 465 | * ''Series/ArgentinaTierraDeAmorYVenganza'': Many characters escape from the Spanish civil war and move to Argentina. |
| 466 | * The final season of ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', which underscores the EndOfAnAge. |
| 467 | * ''Series/BringEmBackAlive'': Ran from 1982-1983, set in the 1930s. It was based off a 1930 book of the same title, written by big game trapper & adventurer Frank Buck. Bruce Boxleitner starred as Frank Buck, going on adventures loosely based on the real Frank's. |
| 468 | * ''Series/{{Carnivale}}'' |
| 469 | * ''Series/{{Clarence}}'' is set in 1937, with Clarence starting the series by clearing out the house of a RichBitch during the Coronation Day of King George VI. |
| 470 | * ''Series/{{Damnation}}'' |
| 471 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': The revival series 3 two parter "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan Daleks in Manhattan]]" / "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks Evolution of the Daleks]]" is set in New York City in November 1930, with the Daleks recruiting a labor force by abducting homeless from the Central Park Hooverville. |
| 472 | * ''Series/TheFirstLady'': The Roosevelt Administration first enters into this period, with long bread lines and a lot of unemployment. |
| 473 | * ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': This is the setting of the {{Flashback}} scenes in the second-half of "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart]]" (1930) and all of "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]" (1930-1939). |
| 474 | * Any episode of ''Series/MadMen'' in which Don Draper's childhood is important (there are a lot of them) will involve a flashback to the Thirties. |
| 475 | * ''Series/PenniesFromHeaven'' |
| 476 | * ''Series/{{Poirot}}'', based on Creator/AgathaChristie's literary ''Literature/HerculePoirot'' series, with a majority of the episodes set in 1935-1939. |
| 477 | * ''Series/OohLaLaCouple'' has flashbacks to the main protagonists' [[ReincarnationRomance previous life]] during the Japanese occupation of Korea during this decade. |
| 478 | * The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E28TheCityOnTheEdgeOfForever The City on the Edge of Forever]]" has Kirk and Spock traveling through time to the Great Depression while pursuing a drugged and insane [=McCoy=] who has somehow altered the timeline. |
| 479 | * ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey'': Ran from 1982-1983, set in 1938. While it was greenlit to cash in on the success of Indiana Jones, it was originally conceived and pitched in the late 1970s. |
| 480 | * ''Series/TheWaltons'' |
| 481 | * ''Series/WinterBegonia'': Set during the 1930s in Beiping (former Beijing), the show is about a businessman and a Peking opera actor who become friends and try to set up their own theatre even as the world changes around them and Beiping falls to Japanese occupation. |
| 482 | |
| 483 | [[/folder]] |
| 484 | |
| 485 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 486 | * Music/TheAndrewsSisters: Recorded first singles in the late 1930s. |
| 487 | * Music/LouisArmstrong. Became famous during the 1920s, but still active during the 1930s. |
| 488 | * Music/BelaBartok: Composed "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta"" (1936). |
| 489 | * Music/CabCalloway. Professional music career started in 1930. First major hit in 1931. |
| 490 | * Music/JohnCage |
| 491 | * Music/NatKingCole |
| 492 | * Music/BingCrosby |
| 493 | * Music/DukeEllington. Still active during the 1930s. |
| 494 | * Music/WoodyGuthrie |
| 495 | * Music/BillieHoliday. Made her first recordings. |
| 496 | * Music/TheInkSpots |
| 497 | * Music/RobertJohnson. All of his known recordings took place in 1936 and 1937. |
| 498 | * ''[[Music/RobertJohnsonTheCompleteRecordings The Complete Recordings]]'' (released in 1990, but compiles all his work from the 1930s) |
| 499 | * Music/ErichWolfgangKorngold |
| 500 | * Music/GlennMiller |
| 501 | * Music/SergeiRachmaninoff |
| 502 | * Music/EdithPiaf. |
| 503 | * Music/DjangoReinhardt. Made his first recordings during this decade. |
| 504 | * Music/IgorStravinsky. Composed neoclassical works during this decade. |
| 505 | * Music/FrankSinatra. First commercial record in 1939. |
| 506 | * Music/SunRa: Started performing in 1934. |
| 507 | * Music/ArtTatum. First recordings in 1933. |
| 508 | * Music/EdgardVarese |
| 509 | * Music/SarahVaughan |
| 510 | * Music/MuddyWaters. |
| 511 | * Music/KurtWeill. Still working in collaboration with Creator/BertoltBrecht. |
| 512 | [[/folder]] |
| 513 | |
| 514 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 515 | * ''Pinball/BaffleBall''. Released in 1931 and became the {{Trope Maker|s}} of {{pinball}} as a whole. |
| 516 | * ''Pinball/{{Contact}}''. Released in 1933, it introduced electro-mechanical mechanisms, bell chimes, and the TILT. |
| 517 | [[/folder]] |
| 518 | |
| 519 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 520 | * Wrestling/FreddieBlassie. Debuted in 1935. |
| 521 | * Wrestling/EdStranglerLewis |
| 522 | * Wrestling/BuddyRogers. Debuted in 1939. |
| 523 | * Wrestling/LouThesz. Debuted in 1932. |
| 524 | * [[Wrestling/GeorgeWagner George Wagner[=/=]Gorgeous George]]. Debuted in 1932. |
| 525 | * Wrestling/{{CMLL}}. Established in 1933. |
| 526 | [[/folder]] |
| 527 | |
| 528 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 529 | * ''Radio/BellinghamTerror''. Set in 1935 Bellingham, Washington and features many historical events and shout outs to the period. |
| 530 | * ''Radio/TheGreenHornet''. First appeared in January, 1936. |
| 531 | * Creator/OrsonWelles' infamous broadcast of ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' took place on October 30, 1938, although the public hysteria often cited as a result of the broadcast [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(radio)#Public_reaction is probably overstated]]. |
| 532 | * ''Radio/TheScarifyers'': Made in 2007, set in this decade. |
| 533 | [[/folder]] |
| 534 | |
| 535 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 536 | * TabletopGame/TrailOfCthulhu |
| 537 | [[/folder]] |
| 538 | |
| 539 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 540 | * ''Theatre/{{Annie}}'' |
| 541 | * ''Theatre/AnythingGoes'' (1934) |
| 542 | * ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour'' |
| 543 | * ''Theatre/TheGlassMenagerie'' |
| 544 | * ''Theatre/{{Mame}}'' |
| 545 | * ''Theatre/MerrilyWeRollAlong'' |
| 546 | * ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'': Set in 1938. |
| 547 | * ''Theatre/SuddenlyLastSummer'' |
| 548 | * ''Theatre/{{Winterset}}'' |
| 549 | [[/folder]] |
| 550 | |
| 551 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 552 | * The 1991 beat-em-up ''VideoGame/SixtyFourthStreetADetectiveStory'' takes place on October 3, 1939. A very futuristic version of 1939, at least; the robotic enemies in the later levels take cues from steampunk, while the multitude of mooks sporting mohawk hairdos, sunglasses, and bandanas take cues from 1980s punk. |
| 553 | * ''VideoGame/AgentArmstrong'' is a Platform/PlayStation game released in 1997, but set in 1935. It's deliberately styled to resemble 1930s adventure comic strips. |
| 554 | * Telltale's ''VideoGame/{{Back to the Future|TheGame}}'' game mostly takes place in the year 1931, with a few segments in 1986. |
| 555 | * ''VideoGame/BloodRayne'': Story kicks off in 1933. |
| 556 | * ''VideoGame/TheCliffhangerEdwardRandy'' is an Indiana Jones-style adventure game set in the '30s, stylized as [[YearX 193X]] in-game.[[labelnote:*]]That said, the Japanese version explicitly states it's September 14, and a calendar is shown with that day as a Friday. The only year of the 1930s where Sep. 14 was a Friday was 1934.[[/labelnote]] |
| 557 | * ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is a video game that pays {{homage}} to the 1930s cartoons of Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer. According to the CreditsGag, the game is even set in 1930, at the time of the Crash, when the protagonists Cuphead and Mugman made a gamble with [[{{Satan}} the Devil]] and are now fighting for their lives in a DealWithTheDevil. |
| 558 | * Made by Seibu Kaihatsu, ''Empire City: 1931'' is a 1986 shooter arcade game set in...well, 1931. You're pit against the NYC Mafia here. |
| 559 | ** In 1988, Seibu Kaihatsu released a follow-up game called ''Dead Angle'', set at an unknown point in the 1930s. You're still taking on mobsters, but now you travel to different cities to do it. |
| 560 | * ''VideoGame/MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven'' is set during this time period and focuses on what was the Mafia was doing during the Depression. |
| 561 | * ''VideoGame/{{Pathway}}'' is set in 1936 and consists in leading a team of adventurers through North Africa and Middle East to prevent Nazi expeditions to gain archaeologic artifacts (it's basically ''Indiana Jones: The Roguelike''). |
| 562 | * ''VideoGame/PrehistoricIsle'': First game is made in 1989 but is set in 1930. |
| 563 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{Aleste}} Power Strike II]]'' is set during an AlternateHistory version of Depression-era Italy, in which the mass layoffs of the Depression cause people to take to {{sky pira|te}}cy in desperate need of cash. The protagonist is a BountyHunter who neutralizes these pirates to make a living of his own. |
| 564 | * ''VideoGame/PulpAdventures'' is set in an unspecified date during the Thirties and its story is a typical TwoFistedTales involving a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover of fictional characters created during this era (Doc Savage, The Spirit, The Shadow, The Avenger, and dozen of others). |
| 565 | * While the first ''VideoGame/RailChase'' game heavily implies this is the setting with its strong Indiana Jones vibe, the year is never stated. The second, on the other hand, is explicitly set in 1938, with enemies that are Nazis in [[PuttingOnTheReich all but name]]. |
| 566 | * ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose'' is set in 1930, the time of the Crash, possibly explaining why the events in the story didn't get any outside attention; the authorities were stretched too thin to worry about a few alleged disappearances. |
| 567 | * The prologue to ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'' is set in an alternate 1930. |
| 568 | * ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsFromTheNewWorld'' takes place shortly before the Crash, but doesn't really deal with it. |
| 569 | * ''VideoGame/SpartakusWorldInRevolution'' is set in an alternate 1932 where communists overthrew the Weimar government and established the Free Socialist Republic of Germany as a result of a more organized Spartacist uprising known as the May Revolution. The Great Depression in this timeline is caused not by America but by Britain instead since there was no Treaty of Versailles and war reparations. |
| 570 | * ''VideoGame/Squad51VsTheFlyingSaucers'', inspired by Orson Welles' broadcast of ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds1938'', except in the game's timeline the AlienInvasion happened for ''real''. The whole game is even in black-and-white to reflect the era. |
| 571 | * ''VideoGame/WhereTheWaterTastesLikeWine'' has its protagonist travelling across Depression-era America to learn the histories, myths and legends of its people. A few characters seem to come from eras preceding or ''suc''ceeding the 1930s, and the Dire Wolf who sent you out into the country explains this by saying his "family" experience time as "fluid". |
| 572 | [[/folder]] |
| 573 | |
| 574 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 575 | * The final episode of ''WebAnimation/TheStrangerhood'' indicates Tovar was taken from Wall Street just around this time. His EvilTwin, ignorant of the coming depression, ends up going back with plans to make millions on asbestos. |
| 576 | * The short ''WebAnimation/TheBackwaterGospel'' takes place in an isolated and forgotten town in the Dust Bowl. |
| 577 | [[/folder]] |
| 578 | |
| 579 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 580 | * ''Webcomic/MonsieurCharlatan'' |
| 581 | * ''Webcomic/{{Daniel}}'' is set in 1934. The titular character himself is said to have been laid off from a job due to the Wall Street Crash. |
| 582 | * ''Webcomic/ForLoveNorMoney'': A period crime drama which begins in 1930s Ireland, a country reeling in the wake of the 1929 Wall Street Crash. |
| 583 | [[/folder]] |
| 584 | |
| 585 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 586 | * ''Podcast/RedPandaAdventures''. Debuted in 2005, set in the 1930s. |
| 587 | [[/folder]] |
| 588 | |
| 589 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 590 | * WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts. Started in 1928. Continued throughout the decade. |
| 591 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheMadDoctor'' (1933). |
| 592 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheBandConcert'' (1935). |
| 593 | ** ''WesternAnimation/PlutosJudgementDay'' (1935). |
| 594 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ThruTheMirror'' (1936). |
| 595 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MovingDay'' (1936). |
| 596 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ClockCleaners'' (1937). |
| 597 | ** ''WesternAnimation/LonesomeGhosts'' (1937). |
| 598 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BraveLittleTailor'' (1938). |
| 599 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ThePointer'' (1939). |
| 600 | * WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies. Series started in 1929. Continued to 1939. |
| 601 | ** ''WesternAnimation/FlowersAndTrees'' (1932). |
| 602 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs'' (1933). |
| 603 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheTortoiseAndTheHare'' (1935). |
| 604 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheGoldenTouch'' (1935). |
| 605 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheCookieCarnival'' (1935) |
| 606 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheOldMill'' (1937). |
| 607 | * Recap/LooneyTunesInThe30s |
| 608 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid ''. Created in 1929. Public debut in 1930. |
| 609 | *** ''WesternAnimation/SinkinInTheBathtub'' (1930). |
| 610 | ** ''Foxy'' |
| 611 | *** ''WesternAnimation/LadyPlayYourMandolin'' (1931). |
| 612 | ** ''WesternAnimation/PorkyPig''. Created in 1935. |
| 613 | *** ''WesternAnimation/PorkysRailroad'' (1937) |
| 614 | *** ''WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland'' (1938). |
| 615 | *** ''WesternAnimation/OldGlory'' (1939). |
| 616 | ** ''Owl Jolson'' |
| 617 | *** ''WesternAnimation/ILoveToSinga'' (1936). |
| 618 | ** ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck''. Created in 1937. |
| 619 | *** ''WesternAnimation/PorkysDuckHunt'' (1937). |
| 620 | *** ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndEgghead'' (1938). |
| 621 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny''. Created in 1938. Prototype appearances to 1940. |
| 622 | * Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer produce some of their famous series. |
| 623 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop''. First appeared in 1930. |
| 624 | *** ''WesternAnimation/MinnieTheMoocher'' (1932). |
| 625 | *** ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhite1933''. |
| 626 | ** ''Bimbo'' |
| 627 | *** ''WesternAnimation/BimbosInitiation'' (1931). |
| 628 | ** ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}''. Adapted to the medium in 1933. |
| 629 | *** ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsSindbadTheSailor'' (1936). |
| 630 | *** ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsAliBabasFortyThieves'' (1937). |
| 631 | *** ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndHisWonderfulLamp'' (1939) |
| 632 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ColorClassics''. Series started in 1934. |
| 633 | * Creator/UbIwerks started his own studio. Creating a few memorable series. |
| 634 | ** WesternAnimation/FlipTheFrog. First appeared in 1930. |
| 635 | ** WesternAnimation/WillieWhopper. First appeared in 1933. |
| 636 | ** WesternAnimation/ComiColorCartoons. Series started in 1933. |
| 637 | *** ''WesternAnimation/BalloonLand'' (1935). |
| 638 | * ''WesternAnimation/HappyHarmonies'' by Creator/HarmanAndIsing. The series started in 1934. |
| 639 | ** ''WesternAnimation/GoodLittleMonkeys'' (1935). |
| 640 | * ''WesternAnimation/MGMOneshotCartoons'' started appearing in 1937. |
| 641 | ** ''WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth'' (1939). |
| 642 | * ''Creator/VanBeurenStudios'' (1928-1936): Created several animated series from the late 1920's up to 1936. |
| 643 | ** ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'': Included a brief sound revival of the [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatOttoMessmer original Felix the Cat cartoons.]] |
| 644 | * ''WesternAnimation/AndyPanda''. First appeared in 1939. |
| 645 | * ''WesternAnimation/BarneyBear''. First appeared in 1939. |
| 646 | * ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin''. Created in 1990, set in the 1930s. |
| 647 | * ''WesternAnimation/NightHood'': Made in 1996, set in this decade. |
| 648 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'': Made in 1982, set during the latter parts of the decade. |
| 649 | [[/folder]] |
| 650 | |
| 651 | !!Works made in (but not necessarily set during) the thirties: |
| 652 | |
| 653 | * See FilmsOfThe1930s |
| 654 | * See LiteratureOfThe1930s |
| 655 | * See MusicOfThe1930s |
| 656 | * See RadioOfThe1930s |
| 657 | * See TheatreOfThe1930s |
| 658 | |
| 659 | [[folder:Art]] |
| 660 | * ''Art/ThePersistenceOfMemory'' |
| 661 | [[/folder]] |
| 662 | |
| 663 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 664 | * ''ComicStrip/PrinceValiant''. First appeared in February, 1937. Set in TheMiddleAges. |
| 665 | [[/folder]] |
| 666 | |
| 667 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 668 | * ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'': The second anthology comic made by DC. Series started (as ''New Comics'' before being renamed) in December, 1935. |
| 669 | * ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'': Series started in March, 1937. |
| 670 | * ''Comicbook/MarvelMysteryComics'': The first superhero comic anthology made by Marvel (then known as Timely Comics) in late 1939. |
| 671 | [[/folder]] |
| 672 | |
| 673 | [[folder:Magazine]] |
| 674 | * ''{{Magazine/Analog}}'' |
| 675 | [[/folder]] |
| 676 | |
| 677 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 678 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'': Parker Brothers published the game in 1935, though variants of the game date back further. |
| 679 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' (1938) |
| 680 | [[/folder]] |
| 681 | |
| 682 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 683 | * ''WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels'' (1939) |
| 684 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{The Wizard Of Oz|1933}}'' (1933) |
| 685 | [[/folder]] |
| 686 | [[/index]] |
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