I'm a baby boomer, 46 to be exact. I remember that era well and also many of the Noir movies. Hollywood isn't the same. I seldom watch the new stuff that's coming out. I wish we could go back, but unfortunately, time moves on.

This woman is fascinating in her ability to recount Hollywood history.

👌🏼 CLARA & JULIA KUPERBERG are definitely the best and most serious documentarists of the Hwood history. Their whole series is a must-see for any scholar in Film Studies as well as for all genuine movie-lovers.

What a beautiful time. Once the studio system was done away with, it's never been the same. More movies, more stars. There will never be anything like it again.

I’ve just discovered this page. I love everything old Hollywood. Very well done and so informative. ❤

I am from Seattle first time in California and this documentary help me to find the perfect update of the films production, great and easy to follow.

7:55 I still have a few dishware pieces from theatre giveaways in Canada. My mother's mom made the 5 kids go to the movie with giveaways, whether or not it was their preferred film to watch!

Wonderful documentary. Getting Professor Mann as narrator was a real coup. She is very knowledgeable.

Great presentation, really fascinating!

Great documentary thanks for posting

Excellent

This was very well done! These women present it in a very informative and interesting way. Makes me want to see more.

The America that many of these movies portrayed is slipping away fast.

That was a very interesting documentary. I think the final nail in the coffin for the film industry was the COVID Scare and also the replacement of greed instead of imagination. The theatre industry doesn't have a chance anymore when everything goes directly to your personal way of screening films. I used to see 8-10 films a week before video - new films and the revival house films. That was the turning point for me once the rival houses disappeared. And now I haven't seen a theatre film in years because most of it is crap.

Very interesting, as an insider and suggestion, how about one on all the technical advancements:Technicolor, Cinemascope, stereophonic sound,3D,Cinerama, pop corn to pizza for consessions?

Great insight in film history! Thanks for posting!

Really great piece. Interesting to see the evolution. Now I'd say, just when you thought it couldn't get any harder for the movie industry, Covid hit. It was the perfect storm of stay home, stream content, and be with your family. That rounded up the last of the last holdouts who couldn't work a dvd player or figure out what streaming was, because they had no option really, but to learn and adapt. Now that Covid is fading or just here for the long haul, what actually is the appeal of going to a theater anymore? You're trying to convince people now thoroughly invested in pjs and a couch night, to spend what $40-50+ on a theater experience in a bad economy for a family of four, that they can get at home for a tenth of that. Add to that, the release to streaming dates are so small now. As a kid, it would take almost a year before a theater movie would hit VHS, and now it's something like 3 months. I think sensing this already in full motion turnabout, post writers strike, quality television programing has really taken over. You can nearly get movie style programing on tv shows and the actors themselves are realizing tv is where the legends are made now, whereas in the past, it was taboo as only washed up has-been actors used to end up falling from the grace of picture films, to doing tv.

I have some of the dishware. My grandmother prodded her kids to same theatre no matter what the movie, just to get the dishes.

This video is so interesting and entertaining. I greatly enjoyed all the "behind the scenes" information the public was not privy to know. Learning about the secret dark underbelly causes a person to understand there was so much going on that may have an impact on opinions of certain old Hollywood celebrities and important industry figures.

I wish I saw this before I just gave my lectur on Hollywood history! Great summary!

Great move, learned a good bit. Spends most of its time on 1920's-1950's, kind of rushes through everything else. Still recommend.

welcome to Los Angeles,California home to the film capital of America where Hollywood movie studios located all around Los Angeles

This very good documentary was done seven years ago as I write this. Yet, I don't think the film-makers have been very good prognosticators about American moviegoers' tastes. They foresaw at the end of this piece the demise of the blockbuster in favor of more intimate films. Just the opposite has occured as we are inundated with BOOM and POW films with little reverence for the spoken word. I used to see, on the average, 50-60 films a year. Now, I'm lucky if I see two or three a year. Part of it is economics because I can afford to see movies at $15-25 a film. I just miss films like "The Philadelphia Story" where Jimmy Stewart talks of Kate Hepburn's "glow." Hooray for Hollywood? Not any more.

GENDERS!!!!

It was really sad to see movies shown in movie theatres decline sharply in popularity in the 1990's. Up until that time I used to really enjoy seeing the latest hit movie in the movie theatres with my friends. Its no secret that going to see movies really took a nosedive when computers took over society. Also, I found movies had too much gratitious sex and violence in them and the cost of a movie ticket, plus popcorn and a drink, was just not worth the money you spent. Also, the movies just didn't seem to appeal as much to the general public.

This is an intelligent, incisive analysis underlined by the excellent film clips, but I take serious issue with three points: Post-war films like Mildred Pierce and Adam's Rib showed an ambivalence about pushing women from workers to housewives. And while The Best Years of Our Lives ended hopefully for returning G.I.'s, but literally dozens of film noirs showed men who couldn't subvert their war trauma into settling down with a 9-to-5 job and nuclear family. Finally, Kiss Me Deadly was hardly the end of noir, with films like While the City Sleeps, Crime of Passion and Touch of Evil yet to come.

The men were soldiers and the women were Rosie the riveter and nurses and danced with the soldiers at uso functions!

Kirk trying to force his kiss on Jene Simmons at 34:32 quite creepy.

My studio making silent films.

Research the photos please! There'a a '60 Pontiac in the '30s segment

Her conclusion couldn’t have been further from the truth.

Sad how as the decades push foreward, The bar just gets lower and lower. A population whose moral fibre finds solace in standing in line around the block to see a souless lifeform with a worm eaten face killing people in Nightmare on Elm Street. Or getting some kind of thrill from watching a disturbed mutant chainsaw killer. I used to blame the movie makers, But as it turns out they are the same as those standing in the line around the block.

We’re in what’s called “The Iron Age”. Conglomerate or Independent, either you are strong enough to succeed for the attention of the people or you’re not.

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To bad and sad that our actors and actresses) dont do much for our country.we need to stick together and do our part.and fight for our country.

La dedans ya des acteurs ou actrices dont ont ce fous.

Nice documentary. Women were Women & Men were Men. Yes the Women stepped up in the war years & did their part. But only out of Necessity. When the Men came home, most Women went back to their true place ( in the Home). I guess we’ll never see a world like that again.😢

When I compare it to the Thames?TV documentary about Hollywood, this one is as lacking, superficial and American as can be. Huge yawn... I cannot even make it to the end.

This is BS.

You just skip right over the silent movies?