With additional funding from these foundations and individuals and by and the annual Financial Support of hello, im john lithgow. Welcome to american cinema. In 1946, hollywood didnt think a tv screen only inches in size could ever compete with a theatre screen 30 feet wide. Movies were king. Television was a novelty developed by radio industry. Barely 6,000 sets were in use across the entire country. By 1951, it was a new world and television was a part of it. Movie theatres were closing in waves, 55 in new york alone. To make matters worse, hollywood was coming apart. Antitrust action dismantled the entire studio system. The monopoly of the movies was over. Hollywoods reaction to tv was like one of its plot lines. At first denial, then feeling threatened, followed by fierce competition until embracing the adversary. Yet it was television that produced a new generation of movie directors that told stories in new ways, with movies like the manchurian candidate, bonnie and clyde, and ma
and by: and the annual financial support of: hello, i m john lithgow. welcome to american cinema. in 1946, hollywood didn t think a tv screen only inches in size could ever compete with a theatre screen 30 feet wide. movies were king. television was a novelty developed by radio industry. barely 6,000 sets were in use across the entire country. by 1951, it was a new world and television was a part of it. movie theatres were closing in waves, 55 in new york alone. to make matters worse, hollywood was coming apart. anti-trust action dismantled the entire studio system. the monopoly of the movies was over. hollywood s reaction to tv was like one of its plot lines. at first denial, then feeling threatened, followed by fierce competition until embracing the adversary. yet it was television that produced a new generation of movie directors that told stories in new ways, with movies like the manchurian candidate, bonnie and clyde, and mash. the studios didn t disappear; they
and by: and the annual financial support of: hello, i m john lithgow. welcome to american cinema. in 1946, hollywood didn t think a tv screen only inches in size could ever compete with a theatre screen 30 feet wide. movies were king. television was a novelty developed by radio industry. barely 6,000 sets were in use across the entire country. by 1951, it was a new world and television was a part of it. movie theatres were closing in waves, 55 in new york alone. to make matters worse, hollywood was coming apart. anti-trust action dismantled the entire studio system. the monopoly of the movies was over. hollywood s reaction to tv was like one of its plot lines. at first denial, then feeling threatened, followed by fierce competition until embracing the adversary. yet it was television that produced a new generation of movie directors that told stories in new ways, with movies like the manchurian candidate, bonnie and clyde, and mash. the studios didn t disappear; they
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