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Culture Change In The Theater
Theater crowds gained a reputation as unruly, loud and uncouth. The improvements made to theaters in the last half of the 19th century encouraged middle and upper patrons to attend plays, crowds became quieter, more genteel, and less prone to cause disruptions of the performance.
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The Little Crash
1920-1930 was the decade between the end of the Great War and the Depression following the Stock Market Crash. Film Theaters and studios were not initially affected in the decade by the crash in late 1929.
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The Rebound
The early 40 decades were not promised for the American film industry, especially following the late 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese and the resultant loss of foreign markets. However Hollywood film production rebounded and reached its profitable peak of efficiency during the years.
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Wide Problems
The Hollywood film industry of 1950 was threatened on several different fronts. Television broadcasting was rapidly becoming the dominant entertainment medium in United States.The paramount anti-trust consent decree requiring separate ownership for production companies and theater chains had gone into effect on January 1,1950.
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New Decade's Major Changes
Cinema in the 1960 reflected the decade of fun, fashion, rock n roll, tremendous social changes and transitional culture values. This was a turbulent decade of monumental changes, tragedies, cultural events, assassinations deaths, and advancement.
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Worst Year
1963 was the worst year for the US film production in fifty years(there were only 121 feature releases). And the largest number of foreign films released in the US.
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Warner Bros.
In 1967, Jack Warner(co-creator of the famous studio) sold his controlling interest in Warner Bros. to a Canadian production and distribution corporation called Seven Arts, and the company was renamed Warner Bros-Seven Arts.
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The Creative High Point
The 1970s opened with hollywood experiencing a financial and artistic depression, the decade became creative high point in the US film industry. Restriction on language, adult content and sexuality, and violence had loosen up, and these elements became more widespread.
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New Trend
The decade of the 1980s tended to consolidate the gains made in the seventies rather than to initiate any new trends equal to the large number of disaster movies, buddy movies, or "rogue cop" movies that characterized the previous decade.
http://www.filmsite.org/80sintro.html
