3. 1970s
• Hollywood financial problem
• The Last Golden Age of American Cinema
• Old filmmakers died out
• Old styles & techniques died out
4. 1970s
• Beginning of New Hollywood
‘American New Wave’
• Loosen up controls & limitations
• Lots of experiments
• The dark side of the American Dream
5. Impact to the industry
• Hippie’s movement
• Civil right movement
• Rock & Roll
• Use of drugs, sex, crime, and violent
• New/experimental filmmakers
6. New film markets
• Cable TV ‘HBO’
• Home video revolution
• ‘Cineplex’
7. Cable TV
• HBO
“Home Box Office”
• Founded 1972
• First Satellites
broadcasting
8. Home video revolution
• SONY’s BetaMax VCR
• Pre-recorded video tapes
• Beginning of video sales & rentals
• DVD
9. Cineplex
• “Eaton Center”
• 18 theaters
• World’s largest cineplex
• Opened April 1979 in
Toronto
10. pre-70s films
• Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• The Wild Bunch (1969)
11. 70s top films
• Star Wars (1977)
• Jaws (1975)
• Grease (1978)
• The Exorcist (1972)
• The Godfather (1972)
12. Star Wars
aka Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
• 1977 film by George
Lucus
• New techniques and
effects
• Achieved $1.5M in
the opening weekend
• Franchise popular
until today
13. George Lucas
• 1944-present
• Writer/Director
• First film “THX
1138” (1971)
• Established
‘Lucasfilm Ltd’ in 1971
• Focus on futuristic/fiction
films
14. Jaws
• Film by Steven Spielberg
• Realistic science-fiction/
horror disaster film
• Attack human’s fear
• Book into almost 500
theaters — a record.
• First to Advertise on TV
15. Steven Spielberg
• 1946-present
• Director/Producer/
Screenwriter
• First film
“Duel” (1971)
• Directed the
Blockbuster ‘Jaws’ at
the age of 27
16. The Exorcist
• 1973 film by
William Friedkin
• Horror film feature
extreme blood and gore
• First blockbuster movie
• Huge effects on
pop culture
17. William Friedkin
• 1935-present
• Director/Producer/
Screenwriter
• Fascinated at
Citizen Kane
• Other known work -
The French Connection
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the most lucrative film (and the first summer blockbuster) ever made up to that time (with a record soon to be broken). It was the first film to earn more than $100 million for its producers. Rather than opening small in a few metropolitan centers, it opened - after a three-day TV advertising blitz (that cost $700,000) -
"wide release" on 460 screens around the country at the same time
ten Academy Award nominations—winning two, one for Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay,
