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) 2. 101 Dalmatians (1961) 3. The Jungle Book (1967) 4. Doctor Zhivago (1965) 6. Mary Poppins (1964) (tie) 10. Funny Girl (1968) 12. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (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)     |
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