A new, and popular, movie of the 1950s was Sleeping Beauty. It was about a Princess, Princess Aurora, who was cursed by the evil witch, to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. The curse was partly fixed by Mistress Merryweather so that the princess would not die as a result of this incident, but simply fall asleep and be woken up by her true love's kiss.
The 1940s hosted the debut of many new Disney movies. The Song of the South was one of these movies. This one did stand out from the others, however. This movie created the plot for the well known Disney log flume ride, Splash Mountain. Splash Mountain is a 5-story high ride that consumes 950,000 gallons of water, in total.
Betty Boop made her first appearance in 1930 in a Talkatoon. She immediately became a phenomenon and quickly got her own movies and comic strips. She also very quickly became a sex symbol for many during the time of the depression, becoming one of the first and still most influential animated sex symbols in history. To watch one of Betty's clips click THIS annotation. ![]() This is what Betty originally looked like.
Through our research on the 1920s today, Cheyenne and I learned about a popular fad that came about in this decade called horsemanning. This is when a person poses in a photograph as if they have been beheaded. To learn more about this interesting picture pose visit the horsemanning website! Enjoy!
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