let s flashback because in the beginning, in the 60s, all of a sudden there s a big competitor for the limelight. mm-hmm. tv. mm-hmm. how did the arrival of television in more and more homes, of course, change the way movies were being made in the 60s? well, movie studios realized they needed to make the kind of films that television couldn t produce. so the big historical epics which had been a mainstay in hollywood for a long time, they became even bigger. so huge sets, lavish productions, lots of extras, the kind of spectacle you had to see on the big screen. that plus fun musicals, lots of technicolor, it was anythig you couldn t stay at home and watch to try to get audiences back into the theaters. one of the movies in the 60s had such a huge impact, it nearly destroyed the studio that produced, put the whole hollywood industry at risk. tell us about cleopatra. cleopatra had all the makingsings of a hit movie.