The Hitchhiker Lucille Fletcher - PowerPoint Presentation

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The Hitchhiker

Lucille FletcherSlide3

The Hitchhiker

Radio Play Slide4

The Hitchhiker

Radio Play

Radio Plays have NO VISUALS:

All information must be conveyed by dialogue, sound effects, and narration (explanation)Slide5

The Hitchhiker

Radio Play–

Radio Plays have NO VISUALS:

All information must be conveyed by dialogue, sound effects, and narration (explanation)

Story is set in the late 1930’s in New York City and during a cross country drive.Slide6

The Hitchhiker

Suspense is created through:

sound effects

chilling music

dialogue (especially through character expressing his thoughts/talking to himself)

setting unfamiliar to the character

isolation of character

plot twistsSlide7

New York City 1930sSlide8
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Mom & Pop StoreSlide10

1930s American SouthwestSlide11

Lucille Fletcher

Lived from 1911-2000Slide12

Lucille Fletcher

Lived from 1911-2000

Woman writer – unusual for the timeSlide13

Lucille Fletcher

Lived from 1911-2000

Woman writer – unusual for the time

Started career as a “gopher” for CBS, running errands and typing others’ scriptsSlide14

Lucille Fletcher

Lived from 1911-2000

Woman writer – unusual for the time

Started career as a “gopher” for CBS, running errands and typing others scripts

Wrote more than 20 plays; also wrote novels and short storiesSlide15

Lucille Fletcher

“The Hitchhiker” and “Sorry Wrong Number” were presented on the Orson Welles Show.

Orson Welles was quoted as saying that these two plays were the BEST plays ever written for radio performance.Slide16
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Late30’s/Early 40’s RadioSlide18

Late30’s Radio as Focal Point in Family Living RoomSlide19
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Radio led to a new mass audience forming that was more inclusive, more rural, more domestic, whatever you think of its taste more broadly American. Radio was the first truly mass medium, linking great cities and remote hamlets in the same instantaneous event. Slide21

“Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt adopted radio as a communication tool when the medium was so new no one was certain what place it would find in American culture. Radio was an unknown force, and it came right into people’s homes and spoke to them intimately. It seemed to have the potential for both good and evil…they brought home a constant, free stream of entertainment…Some critics of the radio fad worried that if families stayed home with (the radio) it would erode civic involvement and compete with traditional social gatherings. “

The Internet of the 1930’s

“Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt adopted radio as a communication tool when the medium was so new no one was certain what place it would find in American culture. Radio was an unknown force, and it came right into people’s homes and spoke to them intimately. It seemed to have the potential for both good and evil…they brought home a constant, free stream of entertainment…Some critics of the radio fad worried that if families stayed home with (the radio) it would erode civic involvement and compete with traditional social gatherings. “

The Internet of the 1930’sSlide22
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In the1930’s, this is your only “newsfeed.” It is your source of comedies, dramas, soap operas, kids’ shows, news programs, weather reports, political speeches, and sometimes…even your “fake news.”Slide26
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30’s/40’s CarSlide28

Car and House Ownership by Decade

AVERAGE PRICE OF A NEW CAR:

1930: $600

2019: $35,742Slide29

30’s/40’s TelephoneSlide30
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30’s/40’s Phone OperatorSlide32

250,000 women were employed in the 1930’s as telephone operators in the United States.Slide33