How Hollywood Fell Apart in the 1950s

28:23 so it wasn't just me who felt almost no note-worthy films were cominh out in the 70s

Great job

I made smash tacos while watching this video 🩵

Lucille Ball is the reason Mission Impossible exists. 💯

i need 100 more of these videos asap

Very late but I watched this while eating chipotle chicken pasta

Just as many will thank Lucille for giving the world the utopian world of Star Trek when she bought out and ran Desilu Studios, you could also thank her for some of the more ambitious shows that came out of that tv studio. Like the The Untouchables, a crime drama show that felt just as outright hardcore as some of the 1930's pre Hays Code gangster/crime films of the heyday.

Interesting topic, horrible delivery. At no point was there a mention of the presenters sexuality but it's on full display. It's great that you're proud of where you put your special finger but tone it down before you light the internet on fire. Happy gay month or whatever.

Body dismorphia on full display here. Very performative all the way down to the costume. It's hard believing that people are born to treat their existence as a performance.

14:17 dessy arnaws 💀

I had Sushi. It was lunch so I hope that’s okay to still share ><

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The arc of “old Hollywood” reminds me of Disney. How it was an innovator, then a monopoly, got too comfortable, was unprepared for tastes evolving/new competitors, and now got desperate

Love Lucile Ball
Good content

I was mentioning this video to my mom and she brought up another technological change that wrecked moviegoing attendence - AC becoming more common in other businesses and even homes. In the south at least, one of the big pulls of movies during the golden age was getting to enjoy the air conditioning.

What a clown

Ai que vídeo maravilhoso meu deus. Assist duas vezes, back to back

I have always been interested in the decades of Old/Golden Age of Hollywood.. So I took it upon myself to make a personal curriculum where I could study and expand my knowledge overall. This was such a great resource regarding its history. It's really interesting to me how actors have certain views/standards even prejudice regarding the environment or medium where they act. From what I have gathered live theater like dramas, plays and broadway was the most revered place for an actor, then motion pictures/film, followed by television after watching this video. The fact that so many actors in motion pictures like Betty Davis hate the thought of working in television is really surprising to me, especially I grew up in our time where stars and actresses are more than welcome to work both in tv shows and movies interchangeably.. And it would not make a difference to their status. In fact, I think it would even do more good than harm because by doing so it helps with keeping up their relevance and also expand their skillsets as actors. And to respond to your question.. I had a filipino tomato stew with rice and corn on the cob for dinner while drinking a lemon sprite soda knockoff from Trader Joe's as my meal while enjoying your video. Thank you so much for creating this !!  💜

I ate chocolate fudge ghee on toast while watching! It was delicious. Love your videos! I need to go back and watch some oldies again! …and also The Graduate, I don’t think I’ve actually seen it 😂

i ate a cookie!

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Lucy is my favorite celebrity ever. ❤

Had frozen raspberries and mangoes while watching this.

As an ex Baltimorean who loves John Waters and was lucky enough to be around when he still occasionally came out, your mustache makes me so happy

Does anyone know what movie is playing at 18:36

Wow! Lucille Ball was pretty!

I believe when Lucille's character was pregnant, that was the first time the word "pregnant" was uttered on TV or in film.

Your talking head shot is immaculate. Idk what diffusion filters / glow effects you're using on your footage but good god!

Made baked pasta to this video 🍝

It probably makes me an unscrupulous person, but as soon as TV became popular, if I were in Jack Warner’s place, I would’ve used some old sets and long-benched contract players to make up a few TV shows along with playing old films that hadn’t been profitable in their time. It probably would’ve been far more lucrative than incinerating money on those big glitzy flicks.

It's amazing to see once the Hays code ended how movies changed and got explicit and trippy and just surreal and crazy starting 1967-1970. When l would watch movies or tv with my grandparents who wear in their 20's/30's 1970's my grandma would say " how the hell did we watch this shit !?😅 We had to be drunk or high!" 😅 I said " well you probably wear but let's not forget the effect of smog and leaded gas had on your brains 😂" My grandma would not let me watch Benny Hill for years because it was" too dirty" then one day l brought DVDs home from the library we watched them she started to laugh mid episode got up and was like " l apologize for not letting you watch this these are not dirty they are just plain Stupid" 😅 but no as l said to friends when we watched Rocky Horror and Harold and Muad " by the 70's the Hays code had crawled up and died and many film makers and actors and screen wrighters who had been censored wanted to explore subject matter that was more sensitive or downright exploitive or experimentational wanted to express themselves and take their frustrations out on a industry that had long stifled their vision so people went crazy! Sex ,nudity, uncomfortable but engaging plot lines and subject matter the occult , drugs,movies that made no fucking sense.All of it could be shown in the 70's lol their was a lot they got away with in the very late 60's and 1970's that you would not get away with even today in film 😂❤🎉 30:53

I found you by accident by your on video make-up for orthochromatic film and was subscribed by the second video and I'm now binging... If you're looking for an interesting colour film from the 20s (I think 1926) you should check out "mamba"

@swoffordmusic Incredibly well done! This is the first video I’ve seen of yours and it made me an instant subscriber! I’d love to see you discuss The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (if you haven’t already), and how they factored into the whole TV vs. Film debacle of the time. Their show debuted a year before I Love Lucy, and ended a year after Lucy.

Tokyo Toni and Betty Davis in the same video is wild😂

Easy it’s TV

I love Lucy!❤❤ 😂😊

I also love the movies that came out in the 50s like Sabrina, Funny Face, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Harder they Fall, To catch a thief, affair to remember….. wait I think that was 40s….still great film Dark passage as well.
A lot of great films came out but a lot of great things came out on TV too.
I love old Hollywood even though they were so mean to their stars….