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“Inventions Re-Making Leisure”

• Robert and Helen Lynd were cultural anthropologists studying life in Middle America when they wrote Middletown, which was about the impact of technological innovations on American life.
• According to one resident of Middletown, what was the most important single factor in the transformation of American society in the Twenties?
• How was it instrumental in this change?
• Why do the Lynds feel that motion pictures are responsible for a fundamental change in the habits of Middletown residents?
• Taken together, what do the Lynds feel the consumer products of the Twenties will do to American society, what process will it speed?