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Tropes first documented after the invention of radio (1890s) and before the emergence of television (1940s).
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[[Radio Drama|Radio]] and Cinema provided two new media, for the first time in millennia, and originated many TV tropes. This is also the time of the first [[Superhero|Super Heroes]].
 
For future reference: TV, asin wea generallyvery knowprimitive itform, was invented in 1928, but regular broadcasts of electronic television as we generally know it didn't start until 1936 in the U.K. and [[Nazi Germany]] and 1939 in the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
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=== Tropes: ===
 
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* [[Accidental Aiming Skills]]: ''[[The Gold Rush]]''
* [[Adorably Precocious Child]]: Edogawa Rampo's [1894-1965] detective novels.
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* [[Dramedy]]: [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s ''[[The Kid]]''. 1921.
* [[Drunken Montage]]: Hollywood, 1930s or even earlier.
* [[The Eeyore]]: ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh|Winnie the Pooh]]'' by [[AAA. MilneA. (Creator)Milne|AA Milne]], 1926
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: ''The Phantom of the Opera'' by Gaston LeRoux, 1909
* [[Epic Tracking Shot]]: ''[[Sunrise (film)|Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans]]'', 1927
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* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', 1941
* [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You]]: [[Cole Porter]]'s song "Anything Goes" (1934) for the musical of same name provides the [[Ur Example]]:
{{quote| ''(if the pilgrims could see what became of American society)'' "Instead of landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock would land on them!"}}
* [[Just Between You and Me]]: 1940s movie serials, and possibly earlier.
* [[Lensman Arms Race]]: ''Lensman'' novels, 1937
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* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Justified [as it's set in a church and involves a villain who's a religious hypocrite] in the Act I finale of Puccini's ''[[Tosca]]'', 1900; The modern, more random usages of the trope probably date from ''Alexander Nevsky'', 1938.
* [[One-Letter Name]]: ''[[The Castle]]'', [[Franz Kafka]], 1926
* [[Phony Newscast]]: ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' (radio version), 1938
* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: Innumerable ''films noir'', 1940s.
* [[Putting on the Reich]]: ''[[Alexander Nevsky]]'', 1938 - [[The Teutonic Knights]] with swastikas.
* [[Real After All]]: ''[[Film/Miracle Onon 34 th Street|Miracle On 34 th34th Street]]'', 1947
* [[Ret Canon]]: ''Batman'' from its radio serials in 1944.
* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' 1903
* [[Rule 34]]: [[wikipedia:Tijuana bible|Yeah.]]
* [[Secret Identity]]: ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, 1903
* [[ShamgriShangri La]]: 1933 novel ''[[Lost Horizon (novel)|Lost Horizon]]'' by James Hilton
* [[Stop Trick]]: ''[[A Trip to the Moon]]'', 1902
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: Sometime in the early 20th century.
* [[Superhero]]: [[The Shadow]] comic (1931), [[Mandrake the Magician]] (1934), [[The Phantom (comic strip)|The Phantom]] (1936), and [[Superman]] (1938)
* [[Super Multi-Purpose Room]]: ''It's A Wonderful Life'', 1946
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* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: ''[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'', 1931
* [[Trainstopping]]: [[Superman]] did it.
* [[True Love's Kiss]]: ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'', 1937
* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: ''[[R.U.R.|RUR]]'', 1921
* [[Uterine Replicator]]: Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel ''Brave New World''
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Latest revision as of 22:54, 12 November 2021

Tropes first documented after the invention of radio (1890s) and before the emergence of television (1940s).

Radio and Cinema provided two new media, for the first time in millennia, and originated many TV tropes. This is also the time of the first Super Heroes.

For future reference: TV, in a very primitive form, was invented in 1928, but regular broadcasts of electronic television as we generally know it didn't start until 1936 in the U.K. and Nazi Germany and 1939 in the U.S. and U.S.S.R.

Tropes that originated in this time period:

(if the pilgrims could see what became of American society) "Instead of landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock would land on them!"