• Movies (was: SSN)

    From Joe Mackey@1:123/140 to Daryl Stout on Fri May 10 06:57:38 2019
    Daryl wrote to Ed --

    Never saw that movie. Was that one made when Movies Were Better
    Than Ever?

    It was made in the late 50's or early 60's. While there was
    innuendo and suggestiveness, there wasn't any profanity.

    The early '50s.
    With television drawing away audiences the studios came out with
    hifi sound, more colour movies, wide screen, special effects, etc to
    offer what that box in the corner couldn't.
    As in the past (with newspapers and radio) the studios didn't like
    this new upstart and often had clauses in contracts actors couldn't
    appear on tv without written permission of the studio. The newspaper
    dislike radio since people could get news free and not have to buy a
    paper.
    By around 1955 the old studio system was broken. Instead of
    contact players actors were free lancing, etc. (The studios were
    also upset with their actors appearing on radio in the early days
    since they (the studio) were not making any money by the actor
    appearing free over the air. That changed around 1933-34. Cecil D.
    DeMille and his Lux Radio Theatre paid stars big money to repeat
    their movie roles. DeMille was pretty much a figure head and
    interviewer, but held a lot of clout in Hollywood.
    Joe
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