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__Music__
= = 1920s As the decade began, the spring-wound talking machine with pre-electrical, no-fidelity sound was already established and probably the most popular of the home entertainment devices; the best selling makes were the Victrola and tha Graphanola. Radio stations were mushrooming across the United States in the 1920s. In March of 1922, the Atlanta Journal opened up WSB in Atlanta, the first radio station in the south. Six months later on September 9,   F    iddlin' John Carson made his radio debut, one of the first country music performers to modulate the airwaves. The   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">Grand Ole Opry    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">, originally known as the WSM Barn Dance, made its inaugural broadcast on November 28, 1925. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">In the 1920s, Ma Rainey   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">, "The Mother of the Blues," became a featured performer on the T.O.B.A (Theater Owners Booking Association) circuit. Before signing a recording contract with Paramount Records in 1923, Rainey had almost a quarter century's worth of stage work to her credit. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">Bessie Smith <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">was the greatest and most influential classic blues singer of the 1920s. During her heyday, she earned upwards of $2000 per week, a queenly sum in the 20s. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"> **King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band was one of the best and most important bands in early Jazz.** || ([|King Oliver] / [|Alphonse Picou]) || **10-3-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5274-B** || ([|King Oliver] / [|Louis Armstrong]) || **4-5-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5133-B** || ([|King Oliver]) || **4-5-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5135-B** || ([|King Oliver] / [|Louis Armstrong]) || **4-6-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5132-A** || (Benjamin Spikes / John Spikes / [|Jelly Roll Morton]) || **4-6-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5135-A** || (Charlie Johnson / Warren Smith / Lloyd Smith) || **4-5-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5134-B** || ([|King Oliver] / [|Bill Johnson]) || **4-5-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5133-A** || (Benjamin Spikes / John Spikes / [|Bill Johnson]) || **10-3-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5274-A** || (M. Bloom / Walter Melrose) || **4-5-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5134-A** || ([|King Oliver] / [|A.J. Piron]) || **4-6-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5184-B** || ([|King Oliver] / [|Louis Armstrong]) || **4-6-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 3076-B** || ([|Louis Armstrong]) || **4-6-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5132-B** || ([|King Oliver] / [|Lil Hardin]) || **10-3-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5275-B** || ([|King Oliver] / Robinson) || **10-3-1923** || **Richmond, Indiana** || **Gennett 5275-A** ||
 * **Title** || **Recording Date** || **Recording Location** || **Company** ||
 * **[|Alligator Hop]**
 * **[|Canal Street Blues]**
 * **[|Chimes Blues]**
 * **[|Dipper Mouth Blues]**
 * **[|Froggie Moore]**
 * **[|I'm Going Away To Wear You Off My Mind]**
 * **[|Just Gone]**
 * **[|Krooked Blues]**
 * **[|Mandy Lee Blues]**
 * **[|Snake Rag]**
 * **Sugar Foot Stomp**
 * **[|Weather Bird Rag]**
 * **[|Workingmans Blues]**
 * **[|Zulu's Ball]**
 * **Artist** || **Instrument** ||
 * **[|Lil Hardin-Armstrong]** || **Piano** ||
 * **[|Louis Armstrong]** || **Cornet** ||
 * **[|Baby Dodds]** || **Drums** ||
 * **[|Johnny Dodds]** || **Clarinet** ||
 * **[|Honore Dutrey]** || **Trombone** ||
 * **Stump Evans** || **C-Melody Saxophone** ||
 * **[|Bill Johnson]** || **Bass** ||
 * **[|King Oliver]** || **Cornet, Leader** ||
 * **[|Johnny St. Cyr]** || **Banjo, Guitar** ||

King Oliver is a legend in Jazz history. As a trumpet player, he was strongly influenced by   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">B    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">uddy Bolden whom he imitated, but Oliver soon became a Jazz stylist in his own right. In the end, the designation of "king," which Bolden had long assumed, became Oliver's--particularly after one memorable night in   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">S    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">toryville. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">In the early 1920s,   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">L    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">ouis Armstrong joined King Oliver in Chicago--playing solos with    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">Fl    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">ecther Henderson at the Roseland Ballroom in New York and making jazz history with the Hot Five. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">C   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">ow Cow Davenport was one of the earliest boogie-woogie pianists. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">S   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">ippie Wallace was born in Texas and carried with her a tradition of Texas-styled blues that emphasized risque` lyrics and rough-cut, rural vocal phrasing rather than the sophisticated accents of the era's more cosmopolitan blues singers. Although her recording career stretched throughout most of the 20s, her best work was done from 1923 to 1927 when the likes of Louis Armstrong,   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">J    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">ohnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet    [|,] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"> and    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">C    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">larence Williams accompanied her in the recording studio. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">B   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">lind Lemon Jefferson recorded over eighty blues tunes between 1925 and 1929 and was generally responsible for the surge of popularity in the country blues in this period. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">During the mid-1920s, the unexpectedly strong sales of Blind Lemon Jefferson's Paramount 78s sent record scouts scrambling to sign male blues artists. One of their best discoveries was Blind Blake   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">, a swinging, sophisticated guitarist whose warm, relaxed voice was a far cry from harsh country blues. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">Ralph Peer recorded Jimmie Rodgers   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"> and the Carter Family    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"> in Bristol, Tennessee in 1927. Rodgers, known as "The Father of Country Music," reportedly sold over 20 million records in the six years of his career. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">Gid Tanner and His Skillet Licker was the most prolific of the Georgia string bands of the 20s and 30s in terms of number of recordings. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">Blind Willlie McTell recorded his first sides for the Victor company in 1927 in Atlanta. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">M   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">emphis Minnie signed with Columbia records in 1929. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">Charlie Patton   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">and Son    House <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"> defined early Delta blues in the late 1920s and early 1930s. __Famous //films//__ There was many famous films of the 1920&1930s===

**__Warner Brothers Production:__**
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Animaniacs,etc

__Paramount Pictures: Famous Flims__
Mary Pickford, Douglas FairBanks, Gloria Swanson, Ruldolph Valentino, Wallace Ried Mary Pickford was born Gladys Marie Smith on April 8, 1892, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, though in later years she would try to shave a year off her age. Her father was an alcoholic who could not hold a job, and he died when Gladys was a child. Gladys' mother pushed her children into show business for financial reasons, and Gladys was soon a success on Broadway, first known as "<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Baby Gladys Smith ," until the producer David Belasco christened her "Mary Pickford." Her film career began in 1908, when she met D.W. Griffith, head of Biograph Studios. She began working at Biograph with her friends, Lillian and Dorothy Gish. Griffith specialized in films featuring the damsel in distress stereotype, and both Gish sisters played it to perfection. When Mary felt Griffith was paying more attention to the Gishes than to her, she left Biograph. By this time, 1910, Mary showed that she was already a savvy businesswoman by hopping from studio to studio - wherever the most money was. By 1916 she was already making $16,000 a week. Now known throughout the world as "America's Sweetheart," (abroad Mary was called "The World's Sweetheart") she continued playing little girl roles in films such as //New York Hat// (1912) and //Daddy Long Legs// (1919.) At this time she also married actor Owen Moore. The marriage didn't last too long, however, because on a war bond tour during World War I, Mary met a man who was to have a profound affect on both her personal and professional life. Douglas Fairbanks was the biggest male star in Hollywood. He was the first "action" star, thrilling audiences by swinging on ropes, jumping across high buildings, and engaging in sword fights. Mary found him irresistible, and after divorcing their respective spouses, they married in 1920. They named their Hollywood estate **PickFair**, and were renowned for their glittering parties. It was at around this time that Mary formed United Artists with Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and her former boss D.W. Griffith. United Artists was a revolutionary concept: allowing filmmakers to have total artistic control over their films from conception through post production. It also meant that artists and writers could control their own financial future, rather than having to kowtow to exploitative studio bosses. Her decision to help found United Artist would eventually make Mary Pickford a millionaire several times over. She was not as lucky in her personal life, however, and she and Fairbanks divorced in 1929. Though Mary won an Oscar that same year for a "grown-up" role in //Coquette//, audiences never really accepted her as an adult, and she retired in 1933. She married Charles Buddy Rogers, an actor and musician, in 1937. She devoted much of her time to charity, and also helped to incorporate Beverly Hills. In 1976, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Mary its lifetime achievement award. She was known to drink to excess in her later years, and on May 29, 1979, Mary Pickford died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 87.

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Gloria Swanson was born in Chicago on March 27th, 1897. Her real name is Gloria Josephine Mae Swenson. She began her career 1913 at Chicago's Essanay Studios. Back then she was known as Gloria Mae. In 1916, she married Wallace Beery, another Essanay player, and the newlywed couple moved to Hollywood. He was to be the first of six husbands. She then shifted back-and-forth between two studios, Triangle and Paramount, where she appeared in roles that captured audiences hearts, making her a major box-office draw of the silent era. Her first lead role was in Cecil B. DeMille's //Don't Change Your Husband// (1919). DeMille would direct her in six of her box-office triumphs.=====

In 1925, after returning from France where she filmed //Madame Sans-Gene// and married her third husband, Marquis Henri de la Falaise, she teamed up with Joseph P. Kennedy, patriarch of the political clan, and began producing her own films. The two had a extra-marital affair, which was effectively hidden from her fans. Her first production effort went over budget and was not successful; but her second, //Sadie Thompson// (1928), was a commercial and critical success. It was daring for its time: She played a prostitute who was reformed then raped by a religious fanatic. For that role, she received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. The following year was a tumultuous one for Swanson's professional career. Although she received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in //The Trespasser//, her production company also embarked on the ambitious project //Queen Kelly//, directed by Erich Von Stroheim. Von Stroheim created a financial mess, with numerous reshoots and the injection of erotic and perverse touches into the film. Although he was subsequently fired, the damage had been done. Although given a few screenings in Europe, the film was never shown in the United States. It marked the end of Von Stroheim's directing career. By this time, talkies were already entering the scene, and Swanson's transition to the new medium was only a moderate success. She retired in 1934, but attempted several comebacks. Her most successful was her critically lauded star turn in Billy Wilder's //Sunset Boulevard//, where she played a role with many parallels to her own life. She received her third Academy Award nomination for that film. Her final film appearance was in 1974's //Airport 1975//, where she played herself. She died on April 4th, 1983.

Director: Andre Deed
André Deed (1879-1935) was a French music hall comedian whose film career started with [|Georges Méliès] in 1901, but took off when he joined Pathé Frères in 1906. He established a comic character, Boireau, appearing under that name in numerous shorts, and enjoyed a growing screen reputation throughout Europe. The success of the character inspired numerous imitators at other studios, and essentially created the star comedy genre. His film career blossomed further when he joined Itala in 1908 and established a new character, Cretinetti (known as Foolshead in Britain and Gribouille in France). Cretinetti was an engaging mixture of dim-wittedness and sharp-wittedness, readily stumbling into chaotic situations but triumphantly working his way out of them. He went back to Pathé in 1911 and resumed the character of Boireau. He made hundreds of comic shorts in his career, whose anarchic quality seems to ally them with Dada and Surrealism. He made some further Cretinetti films in Italy from 1915, before his career faded away in the 1920s.

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began his career as a scriptwriter, but soon moved on to directing. Many of his scripts were co-written with novelist Thea von Harbou, who he married in 1924. Lang, fled Germany in 1933. Thea von Harbou stayed in Germany, where she later wrote and directed films for the Third Reich. Lang and Harbou were divorced in 1934.=====

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Charles Prince (1872-1933) appeared in Pathé films as Rigadin, whose character was generally that of a bashful lover. He already enjoyed some fame as a theatre performer before joining Pathé in 1908, and he went on to appear in over 200 Rigadin films up to 1920, writing the senarios for many of them. In Britain and America he was known as Whiffles. Rigadin’s most interesting films were those that took on contemporay themes, such as //Rigadin Peintre Cubiste// (1912), where he mocked modern art by appearing as an angular figure, and //Rigadin aux Balkans// (1912) where he plays a war cameraman who gleefully fakes scenes for the camera in France rather than travel to the Balkan War. He ended his film career playing small roles throughout the 1920s and 30s=====

__Liturature__
The most well known author in the 1920s was F. Scott Fitzgerald. other not so well known authors are Elinor Glyn(author of IT), and Percy Marks(Author of The Plastic Age) Fitzgerald was famous for first publicastion of The Side of Paradise(1920). Fitzgeralds novels also include "The Beautiful and the Damned"(1922) and the Great Gatsby(1925).



__Jack Dempsey!__
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">BIRTH NAME: William Harrison Dempsey NAME CHANGE: Changed his name to Jack Dempsey at the age of 19. NICKNAMES: 'The Manassa Mauler', 'Kid Blackie', 'Young Dempsey' Called Harry while growing up.

BORN: June 24th, 1895 BIRTH PLACE: Manassa, Colorado. DIED: May 31st, 1983 DEATH PLACE: New York, New York BURIAL PLACE: Southampton Cemetery, Southampton, New York

CLASS: Heavyweight HEIGHT: 6'1" WEIGHT: 187 REACH: 77 inches STANCE: Orthodox Prohibiton was when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment This video shows prohibition. Prohibition was not a new phenomenon in the 1920s. There had been various anti-alcohol campaigns since the colonial period. The Maine Law of 1851, for example, prohibited the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors within the state of Maine. By 1855, thirteen of the thirty-one states had adopted similar prohibition legislation. During the Civil War, moreover, the federal government prohibited alcoholic beverages in the Union Army as a way to ration grain for hungry soldiers. media type="custom" key="560011" Prohitbition Video.
 * __Prohibition!__**