Welcome to The Decade of Youth Power, THE 60'S

60's The Trip Continues...

"The sixties were the age of youth, as70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults.  Young generation away from the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in revolutionary ways of thinking and real change in the cultural fabric of American life.  No longer content to be images of the generation ahead of them, young people wanted change. The changes affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment.  Many of the revolutionary ideas which began in the sixties are continuing to evolve today."
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Lone Star College - Kingwood

Cinema 60's

TOP FILMS 1960's

Pre 1960’s……

·      _Big studio era (MGM, Universal, Fox, Disney)

·      _Women as sex symbols (Marilyn Monroe). Also As housewives.

·      _Dramas where the story was the most important. Good Story lines and writing…

·      _Big Studio actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Cary Grant, Lona Turner, Doris Day

1960's 
 _Lots of social changes in the US society. So many movies and television shows         reflected this.

LIKE:

·      _Sexual Revolution

·      _Political Movements

·      _Assassination (Kennedy and Martin Luther King)

·      _Women’s Rights

·      _Space exploration

Movies:

·      End of Studios era. The studios started loosing money and had been bought by other companies

·      Big four hours movies

·      Independent actors

·      Movie Theaters became bigger and showed more than one film at a time

Horror:

·      Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary’s Baby, The Birds.

Adventures:

·      Laurence of Arabia, Bonnie and Clyde, Space Oddessey (science fiction)

Social:

·       Dr. Strangelove (cold war and the bomb), To Kill a Mockingbird (black and white, etc), Guess Who’s coming to Dinner

Fashion:

·      Breakfast at Tiffany’s, My Fair Lady

Spy:

·      Dr. Zhivago, From Russial with Love (James Bond film), The Thomas Crown Affair

Sexual Revolution:

·      Lolita, The Graduate

Music:

·      Hard’s Days Night (The Beatles),  To Sir With Love (Sydney Portier actor), Mary Poppins, The sound of Music…

TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 1960s 1. The Sound of Music (1965) 2. 101 Dalmatians (1961) 3. The Jungle Book (1967) 4. Doctor Zhivago (1965) 5.  The Graduate (1967) 6. Mary Poppins (1964) (tie) 7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (tie) 8. My Fair Lady (1964) 9. Thunderball (1965) 10.         Funny Girl (1968) 11.          2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 12.         Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) 13.         Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 14.         Cleopatra (1963) TOP FILMS BY YEAR IN THE 1960s 1960: Swiss Family Robinson (1960) or Let's Make Love (1960)  1961: 101 Dalmatians (1961)  1962:  Lawrence of Arabia (1962) or The Longest Day (1962) or Dr. No (1962)  1963: Cleopatra (1963) or From Russia With Love (1963)  1964: Mary Poppins (1964) or Goldfinger (1964)  1965: The Sound of Music (1965) 1966: Hawaii (1966) or The Bible (1966) or  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)  1967: The Jungle Book (1967) 1968: Funny Girl (1968) 1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) TV Tv shows: Made for TV movies. TV dinners… so now families sat down to watch “family tv shows with good family values _Seasame Street,  _Bewitched,  _The Courtship of Eddy’s Father _Family affair,  _Flipper, Leave it to Beaver.  **** Cartoon’s ***.. Scooby Doo, Flinstones, etc.

60's Object- Fads

Barbie Dolls, introduced by Mattel in 1959, became a huge success in the sixties, so much so that rival toy manufacturer Hasbro came up with G.I.Joe , 12 inches tall and the first action figure for boys. Another doll, the troll or Dammit doll (named for its creator, Thomas Dam) was a good luck symbol for all ages.

California surfers took to skateboards as a way to stay fit out season, and by 1963, the fad had spread across the country.

Woodstock, a party of a lifetime

A life Changer,

Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Civic Rights Movement of the 1960s.He organized nonviolent marches to protest segregation and racial injustice. On August 28, 1963, an interracial assembly of more than 200,000 gathered peaceably in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial to demand equal justice for all citizens under the law. “I Have a Dream” speech dealing with peace and racial equality is one of the most powerful speeches in American history in which he emphasized his faith that all men, someday, would be brothers. On July 2, 1964, the Civic Rights Acts signed in to law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Dr. King was assassinated by a gunman in 1968.

Sport's 1960

 -The first Super Bowl was played in 1967.
-The final game was between Green Bay Packers and Kansas city chiefs.
_ Green Bay packers is the first team to win the super ball.
_Baseball was a very popular game in the 1960's
_In 1962, Jackie Robinson, the first black American to play in major league baseball

60's Boom of Technology

Technology 60's

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight which landed the first humans, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “buzz” Aldrin, JR, on Earth’s Moon on July 20, 1969. The United States mission is considered the major accomplishment in the history of space exploration. On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. He said the historic words, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

(nowaday)

http://www.nasa.gov/about/whats_next.html