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27 Along with the enormously popular westerns, children of the 1930s
enjoyed certain movies that have been recognized as classics and are still being
shown today. Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was the
first full-length animated feature. It contained 250,000 individual drawings,

broke all attendance records, and was translated into ten languages. Another
perennial favorite, The Wizard of Oz (1939), begins as a black-and-white film.
When Dorothy, played by sixteen-year-old Judy Garland, is swept up by a
Kansas tornado to the magical land of Oz, the film’s sudden switch to
breathtaking color (at that time, a recent film innovation) always made

audiences gasp.

28 Hollywood’s top box-office star during the 1930s was a child, Shirley
Temple. She made her first film in 1934, when she was five years old. By the

time she was six, her films were taking in millions of dollars a year. She was
often featured as an orphan who overcomes poverty and hardship through
pluck and luck. Her rags-to-riches stories with their Hollywood-style happy
endings helped Depression audiences forget hard times and escape, for an
hour or two, to a world where everything was bound to turn out all right.

Judy Garland portrays Dorothy in Child star Shirley Temple meets one of her fans,
The Wizard of Oz. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, July 1938.

perennial If something is perennial, it is permanent, constant, or repeated over time.

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