60'S groovy fashion

The 1960's began with crew cuts on men and bouffant hairstyles on women.  Men's casual  shirts were often plaid and buttoned down the front, while knee-length dresses were required wear for women in most public places.  By mid-decade, miniskirts or  hot pants, often worn with go-go boots, were revealing legs, bodywear was revealing curves, and women's hairwas either very short or long and lanky.  Men's hair became longer and wider, with beards and moustaches.  Men's wear had a renaissance.  Bright colors, double-breasted sports jackets, polyester pants suits with Nehru jackets, and turtlenecks were in vogue.  By the end of the decade, ties, when worn, were up to 5" wide, patterned even when worn with stripes.  Women wore peasant skirts or granny dresses and chunky shoes.  Unisex dressing was popular, featuring bell bottomed jeans, love beads, and embellished t-shirts.  Clothing was as likely to be purchased at surplus stores as boutiques.  Blacks of both genders wore their hair in an afro.

          

 

Objects-fads

Barbie Dolls, introduced by Mattel in 1959, became a huge success in the sixties, so much so that rival toy manufacturer Hasbro came up with G.I.Joe , 12 inches tall and the first action figure for boys. Another doll, the troll or Dammit doll (named for its creator, Thomas Dam) was a good luck symbol for all ages.

California surfers took to skateboards as a way to stay fit out season, and by 1963, the fad had spread across the country.

Sports 1960's

_  The first Super Bowl was played in 1967.
The final game was between Green Bay Packers and Kansas city chiefs.
_ Green Bay packers is the first team to win the super ball.
_Baseball was a very popular game in the 1960's
_In 1962, Jackie Robinson, the first black American to play in major league baseball

Technology 60's

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight which landed the first humans, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “buzz” Aldrin, JR, on Earth’s Moon on July 20, 1969. The United States mission is considered the major accomplishment in the history of space exploration. On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. He said the historic words, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

(nowaday)

http://www.nasa.gov/about/whats_next.html

Peopls 60's

Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Civic Rights Movement of the 1960s.He organized nonviolent marches to protest segregation and racial injustice. On August 28, 1963, an interracial assembly of more than 200,000 gathered peaceably in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial to demand equal justice for all citizens under the law. “I Have a Dream” speech dealing with peace and racial equality is one of the most powerful speeches in American history in which he emphasized his faith that all men, someday, would be brothers. On July 2, 1964, the Civic Rights Acts signed in to law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Dr. King was assassinated by a gunman in 1968.

TOP FILMS 1960's

Pre 1960’s…….

·         black and white and color…..

·         BIG STUDIO ERA (MGM, UNIVERSAL, FOX STUDIOS, Disney, ETC

·         Women as sex symbols (marilyn Monroe, etc) but also conforming

·          housewives.

·         Dramas where the story was the most important. Good Story lines and writing….

·         Some will say more morals, married couples, etc.

·         Most people didn’t have televisions to they want to the movie theaters.

·         Movie theaters were big movie houses/theaters. Single screen, etc.

·         Big Studio actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Cary Grant, Lona Turner, Doris Day

1960’s: Lots of social changes in US society so many movies and television shows reflected this.

Social Changes: Sexual Revolution, Big youth movements, Political movements and assisinations (Kennedy and Martilin Luther King), Women’s rights, Race to put the first man on the moon (space exploration), etc.

So… movies about politics, adventure, social issues, action, terror… END OF STUDIO ERA BIG 4 HOUR LONG MOVIES. Studios started to lose money and studios being bought out by other companies. So, now you have independent actors and actresses, directors, etc. Movie Theaters became bigger and “multiplex”.. showing more than one film at a time.

Horror/Thriller films: Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary’s Baby, The Birds.

Adventure Film: Laurence of Arabia, Bonnie and Clyde, Space Oddessey (science fiction)

Social: Dr. Strangelove (cold war and the bomb),  To Kill a Mockingbird (black and white, etc), Guess Who’s coming to Dinner,

Fashion: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (woman with style and a brain but fun. Not a dumb blonde bombshell), My Fair Lady.

Spy/Adventure Movies: Dr. Zhivago, From Russial with Love (James Bond film), The Thomas Crown Affair

Sexual Revolution: Lolita, The Graduate

Music: Hard’s Days Night (The Beatles),  To Sir With Love (Sydney Portier actor), Mary Poppins, The sound of Music…

TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 1960s (unadjusted domestic gross totals) 1. The Sound of Music (1965) 2. 101 Dalmatians (1961) 3. The Jungle Book (1967) 4. Doctor Zhivago (1965) 5.  The Graduate (1967) 6. Mary Poppins (1964) (tie) 7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (tie) 8. My Fair Lady (1964) 9. Thunderball (1965) 10.         Funny Girl (1968) 11.          2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 12.         Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) 13.         Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 14.         Cleopatra (1963) 1960: Swiss Family Robinson (1960) or Let's Make Love (1960) 1961: 101 Dalmatians (1961) 1962:  Lawrence of Arabia (1962) or The Longest Day (1962) or Dr. No (1962) 1963: Cleopatra (1963) or From Russia With Love (1963) 1964: Mary Poppins (1964) or Goldfinger (1964) 1965: The Sound of Music (1965) 1966: Hawaii (1966) or The Bible (1966) or  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 1967: The Jungle Book (1967) 1968: Funny Girl (1968) 1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) TV Tv shows: Made for TV movies. TV dinners… so now families sat down to watch “family tv shows with good family values: Seasame Street, Bewitched, The Courtship of Eddy’s Father, Family affair, Flipper, Leave it to Beaver.  **** Cartoon’s ***.. Scooby Doo, Flinstones, etc.

TOP FILMS BY YEAR IN THE 1960s (unadjusted domestic gross totals)

60's The Trip Continues...

"The sixties were the age of youth, as70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults.  Young generation away from the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in revolutionary ways of thinking and real change in the cultural fabric of American life.  No longer content to be images of the generation ahead of them, young people wanted change. The changes affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment.  Many of the revolutionary ideas which began in the sixties are continuing to evolve today."
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Lone Star College - Kingwood