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1960 |
Breathless, Jean-Luc
Godard's debut feature |
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Karel Reisz's Saturday
Night and Sunday Morning, is one of a cycle of British
"Kitchen Sink" films dealing with everyday working-class
life. |
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Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom break
new ground for representations of violence and criminal
pathology. |
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First ruby laser is built
by Theodore Maiman. |
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First successful hologram
is produced. |
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EG&G develops an
extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy. |
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1960s |
American drive-in theatre
attendance peaks, then begins to decline as a
new
exhibition trend makes its appearance in the latter half of
the decade: the shopping mall multiplex. |
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Commercial colour film is
perfected. |
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1961 |
Eastman Kodak introduces
faster Kodachrome II colour film. |
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Chronicle of a
Summer by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, an experiment in
collaborative ethnography and cinéma verité
techniques. |
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In Hong Kong, the Shaw
Brothers (Shaoshi) builds Movietown, a 46-acre
complex of
studios, sets, laboratory facilities, and dormitories. |
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Notable films include Blake
Edwards's Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Robert Wise and
Jerome Robbins’s West Side Story. |
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Also in History: First
manned space flight. |
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1962 |
Terence Young's Dr.
No, stars Sean Connery as Cold War super-spy
James
Bond. Ian Fleming |
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New York Filmmaker's Co-op
is organized by Jonas Mekas to support the production,
distribution, and exhibition of experimental and avant-garde
film. |
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After a decade as
Hollywood's reigning starlet, Marilyn Monroe dies of a drug
overdose. |
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David Lean’s Lawrence of
Arabia stars Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif. |
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1962-64 |
Stan Brakhage's Dog Star
Man, emblematic of a cycle of lyric films aiming to record
the act of seeing, the flow of imagination, and the sensation
of emotion. |
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1962-69 |
The major Hollywood studios
are bought by and become subsidiaries of American
conglomerates. |
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1963 |
William Asher's Beach
Party, is the first in a series of teen-oriented beach
films starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. |
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Foundation of the Swedish
Film Institute, revolutionary in its system of awards to
quality films. |
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Alfred Hitchock’s
The
Birds |
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President Kennedy is shot
to death in Dallas by a sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald. |
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126 Cartridge / Instamatic
Cameras are introduced. |
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Polaroid introduces instant
colour film. |
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1964 |
Police arrest theatre
owners on obscenity charges in Los Angeles and New York City
for screening Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and
Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising, two scandalous works of
the American underground. |
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Popular films: Robert
Stevenson’s Mary Poppins, George Cukor’s My Fair
Lady, Blake Edwards’s The Pink Panther. |
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1965 |
Jean-Luc Godard's
Alphaville, is a stylized science-fiction adventure set
in the future and shot entirely on location in Paris. |
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Introduction of Super 8, a
new amateur format. |
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David Lean’s
Doctor
Zhivago. |
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Robert Wise’s
The Sound
of Music. |
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1965-73 |
Also in History: Vietnam
War. |
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1966 |
Michelangelo Antonioni's
Blow-Up, emblematic of pop art cinema and of "Swinging
London". |
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Andy Warhol's Chelsea
Girls, a two-screen film with random reel order,
is the
first mainstream success of the American underground. |
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Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf, the first American film released with a rating
("SM"–Suggested for Mature Audience). |
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1967 |
Mike Nichols's The
Graduate and Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde garner
huge ticket sales by appealing to young anti-establishment
audiences. |
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Wavelength, a famous
Structural film by Canadian Michael Snow. |
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Spencer Tracy and Katharine
Hepburn star in the last of nine films they made together in
Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. |
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1967-73 |
European art films link
social with sexual revolutions: Vilgot Sjöman's I Am
Curious–Yellow, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema,
Dušan Makavejev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism. |
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1968 |
Stanley Kubrick's 2001:
A Space Odyssey, is a science fiction film of great
technical accomplishment and a visionary quality without
precedent. |
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Argentinean filmmakers
Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino's Hour of the
Furnaces and Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's
Memories of Underdevelopment, key works of the New
Latin American cinema. |
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The Motion Picture
Producers of America (MPPA, formerly MPPDA) introduces a new
four-point ratings system ranging from "G" to "X" to replace
the now defunct Production Code. |
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Launching of the Journées
Cinématographiques de Carthage, an important festival for Arab
cinema held biennially in Tunis. |
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Also in History:
Assassination of Martin Luther King. |
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Photograph of Earth from
the moon. |
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1969 |
Sam Peckinpah's The Wild
Bunch and Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider criticize the
American myth of individual freedom and appeal to a growing
anti-Vietnam War protest movement; John Schlesinger's X-rated
Midnight Cowboy wins the Academy Award for Best
Picture. |
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Also in History: Woodstock
Festival. |
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Man’s First Moon
Walk by Neil Armstrong.
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