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What was the appeal of movies during the new depression

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"Throughout most of the Depression, Americans went assiduously, devotedly, almost compulsively, to the movies. the movies offered a chance to escape the cold, the heat, and loneliness; they brought strangers together, rubbing elbows in the dark of movie palaces and fleapits, sharing in the one social event available to .
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It provided an escape from the problems of depression life
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