The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.

The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards.

Sociologist Philip Mendes asserts that before the anti-Jewish actions of the 1930s and 1940s, overall Iraqi Jews " viewed themselves as Arabs of the Jewish faith, rather than as a separate race or nationality ".

In North America, during the 1930s and 1940s, the Library of Congress worked through the offices of traditional music collectors Robert Winslow Gordon, Alan Lomax and others to capture as much North American field material as possible.

His first major published work was in 1911, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Its roots went earlier, and performers like Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Oscar Brand had enjoyed a limited general popularity in the 1930s and 1940s.

During the 1930s and 1940s Joseph Stalin's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, such as the killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists leader Yevhen Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, Leon Trotsky, and the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) leadership in Catalonia.

For many years, bouldering was commonly viewed as a playful training activity for climbers, although in the 1930s and late 1940s Pierre Allain and his companions enjoyed bouldering for its own sake in Fontainebleau, considered by many to be the Mecca of bouldering.

Following two minor heart attacks he had to undergo an emergency quadruple heart bypass in 1983, after which he was extremely weak, but he still managed to attend a 1988 Congressional hearing with old colleagues such as Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers to protest media magnate Ted Turner's plan to colorize various black-and-white films from the 1930s and 1940s.

These streetcar lines were replaced with bus routes in the 1930s and 1940s.

* Gale, George, " Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta ( ed.

In the 1930s and 1940s, contra dances appear to have been done only in small towns in widely scattered parts of northeastern North America, such as Ohio, the Maritime provinces of Canada, and particularly northern New England.

The modern culture of cognitive science can be traced back to the early cyberneticists in the 1930s and 1940s, such as Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, who sought to understand the organizing principles of the mind.

This form of comedy film was particularly popular during the 1930s and 1940s.

In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time.

After the industrial scale production of cadmium started in the 1930s and 1940s, the major application of cadmium was the coating of iron and steel to prevent corrosion ; in 1944, 62 % and in 1956, 59 % of the cadmium in the United States was for coating.

Sunday pages during the 1930s and into the 1940s often carried a secondary strip by the same artist as the main strip.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

While he continued to be prolific throughout the 1930s and 1940s, he is probably best known for his 1956 film The Ten Commandments ( which is very different from his 1923 film of the same title ).

New types of chromatography developed during the 1930s and 1940s made the technique useful for many separation processes.

During the 1930s and early 1940s, Alston created illustrations for magazines such as Fortune, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Melody Maker and others.

It most likely originated in North Carolina, but quickly spread across the United States during the 1930s and as far as Australia by the 1940s.

Many of Jones ' cartoons of the 1930s and early 1940s were lavishly animated, but audiences and fellow Schlesinger staff members found them lacking in genuine humor.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis labeled Munch's work " degenerate art " ( along with Picasso, Paul Klee, Matisse, Gauguin and many other modern artists ) and removed his 82 works from German museums.

In the late 1930s, Raymond Chandler updated the form with his private detective Philip Marlowe, who brought a more intimate voice to the detective than the more distanced, " operatives report " style of Hammett's Continental Op stories.

The harmonica's versatility brought it to the attention of classical music during the 1930s.

A feral cat population, descendants of cats brought by guano miners, wrought disruption to the island's wildlife and vegetation since the 1930s.

The famous Mexican mural movement in the 1930s brought a new prominence to murals as a social and political tool.

By the 1930s, talkies brought in a range of powerful new draws: Miriam Hopkins, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, Bing Crosby, the band leader Shep Fields and the famous Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel among them.

During the late 1930s, his political stance brought him into conflict with King Carol II and led to his detainment.

The growing threats of the 1930s brought new criticism from younger writers of " what the last lot had done ( Bloomsbury, Modernism, Eliot ) in favour of what they thought of as urgent hard-hitting realism "; while " Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, which called Bloomsbury élitist, corrupt and talentless, caused a stir " of its own.

The Chelsea was also home to many sailors returning from their duties in World War I. Ruth Harkness, an adventurer / naturalist who brought the first live giant panda from China to the U. S. in the 1930s, stayed at the Chelsea Hotel after her return to the States.

After the heady optimism of the 1920s, the 1930s brought with them an economic crisis, which helped spur a political crisis: both the left ( Communist ) and right ( anti-German and fascist ) parties radicalized and threatened the stability of the democracy.

The Great Depression of the 1930s brought economic hardship to all segments of Guianese society.

Both the Burmese and Tonkinese breeds can be traced back to a single cat, Wong Mau, which was brought from Burma in the 1930s.

LSE and Cambridge economists worked jointly in the 1920s — for example, the London and Cambridge Economic Service — but the 1930s brought a return to the dispute as LSE and Cambridge argued over the solution to the economic depression.

The construction of Norris Dam, the first dam built by the Tennessee Valley Authority, brought major changes to the county in the 1930s.

Reviewing Hobsbawm's 2011 How to Change the World in The Wall Street Journal, Michael Moynihan argued: Reviewing the same book, Francis Wheen argued in a similar vein: " When writing about how the anti-fascist campaigns of the 1930s brought new recruits to the communist cause, he cannot even bring himself to mention the Hitler-Stalin pact, referring only to ' temporary episodes such as 1939 – 41 '.

The early 1930s brought the first arrival of a plane on skis.

The boom continued through the 1930s and brought many customers to the then booming Hotel Claiborne, which had been established in 1890 and declared a state historic site in 1984.

Cigars lost their popularity to cigarettes between the two World Wars, and in the 1930s the Great Depression again brought the town's expansion to a halt.

According to the BGSU library and an exhaustive study by a History Teaching Fellow, the 1920s brought a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan to the city that flourished until the mid 1930s.

In the early 1930s, C. M. " Dad " Joiner brought in the Daisy Bradford # 3 Discovery Well six miles northwest of Henderson.

Hermleigh briefly changed its name in the late 1910s to Foch to honor the French field marshal and World War I hero Ferdinand Foch, but reverted back to the original name shortly thereafter and continued to flourish until the early 1930s, when the effects of the Great Depression brought an end to Hermleigh's growth.

By 1929, three passenger boats left the Indianola dock for Seattle every day, and the 1930s brought more connections to the outside world.

Airport codes arose out of the convenience that it brought pilots for location identification in the 1930s.

The late 1920s and early 1930s brought dubious distinction to White Bear Lake area as a temporary hideout for gangland figures.

The Streamline Moderne style, an 1930s and 1940s offshoot of Art Deco, brought flowing lines to architecture and design of the era.