Grades: 3–8

Give your students a highly unique—and historical—experience of history!

It’s hard to imagine, but before TV and Internet, people learned about current events at the movie theatre.  There they would get a window into the world via “newsreels”, which were shown alongside movies and cartoons.  Frequently, these were all musically accompanied, live, with a theatre organ.

Students can now experience something like this for themselves! Through a combination of comedy film clips, cartoons, historic photos, and newsreel footage, students will get their own window into the early 1900’s of the United States—from industrialization and cinema to the Great Depression and World War II.  They will also glimpse how kids just like them, living in Tucson, experienced these aspects of history.

https://foxtucson.com/event/wurlitzer-history/