It's hard not to discuss TV at length. It was essentially the most influential invention of the 20th century. Sure, the nuclear bomb and the internet are right there with it. Yet for day to day life throughout much of the 20th century the television was king, and you really can't talk about the evolution of movies without discussing in length the effect of television.brazuca said:Uhum, but don't linger too much on Tv story please. There is still the silver era, the decadence of western the Hollywood crash, nowadays, I mean lot of material just about movies. Best episode so far. Waiting for part II and possible III.
mrblakemiller said:I appreciate the vid. I usually prefer Bob's videos when he actually gets into opinion and one-man debate, but I know little enough of the early days of film for this to be worth a look.
Possibly, but the movie industry seems more ontop of recent technology developments now. I'm not saying there isn't room for improvement but they're taking steps into streaming and what not, even if it's largely handled by middlemen.Redd the Sock said:Hmmm. Do I smell an ulterior motive here? Could this "history lesson" be just the setup for a rant about how we (they) need to accept and adapt to technology to survive? I'm not against that. I'm just smelling a bait and switch in the topic.
It should be mentioned that other factors that came to a head in the 1980s that caused many of the above to die off--home video, cable, and real estate value being the major ones.MovieBob said:The return of that way of doing business is a relatively recent development, dating only as far back as the mid-1980s when the Reagan Administration began dismantling the anti-trust regulations on media and entertainment companies (this same deregulation, incidentally, is what created the explosion of right-wing talk radio around the same time.)Spot1990 said:The studios still have all the power with movie theaters. When we got Transformers 3 it was under the condition we run it in the two biggest screens. Bridesmaids was still able to fill the largest screen but we had to bump it down. If we didn't we wouldn't get Transformers and Paramount probably wouldn't deal with us in future. They're also the reason theaters are so expensive. Most of the ticket price just goes back to paying to get the film in. All other expenses and any profit comes from the concession stand which is why 1 liter of coke costs the customer almost 5 euro.
From the 50s until then, though, studios and theaters were largely prohibited from colluding - which led to the rise of independent theaters, arthouses, the urban "grindhouse" screens and drive-ins during that whole period.