Indeed it did. I’ll bet the shift had to do with the huge improvement in recording fidelity. By the mid-30s, record players offered much richer tones. The late NYT columnist, Russell Baker wrote in 1981 about his wonder at seeing some kids playing WWII—40 years after the war. He said that in the late 20s and early 30s, WWI already looked comically ancient. He attributed it to the low fidelity and jerky motion of WWI images. (I wrote about that effect here: insidesources.com/they-shall-not-grow-o…)