1. The 1960’s in film history "Boy, I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals." Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

2. Cultural Highlights  1960 - Introduction of the Twist dance by Chubby Checker  1962 - Death of Marilyn Monroe  1962 - First TV broadcasts in color  1962 - Spacewar, the first computer video game, invented  1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis  1963 - TouchTone telephones introduced  1963 - President John F. Kennedy's assassination  1963 - Women's Liberation, signaled by the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique  1964 - Beatlemania, the Beatles 'invaded' US  1964 - Boxer Cassius Clay joined the Nation of Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Ali

3.  1965 - Miniskirt made first appearance  1965 - Watts (LA) race riots  1965 - Protests of racial stereotyping against 'Amos and Andy' TV show forced it off the air  1966 - One Million Years BC made Raquel Welch a sex symbol in a two-piece fur bikini  1967 - Summer of Love in San Francisco  1967 - First Heart Transplant  1967 - Anti-Vietnam War Protests Escalated as War Deaths Multiplied  1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr's and Robert Kennedy's assassinations  1969 - Woodstock Musical Festival in upper-state New York

4.  1969 - Introduction of the indoor-safe NERF ball  1969 - Sesame Street debuted on TV  1969 - Mai Lai  1969 - Arpanet (first Internet) invented  1969 - The brutal and 'ritualistic' murder of 26 year-old actress Sharon Tate (Roman Polanski's pregnant wife) and others in Los Angeles (Bel Air) by Charlie Manson's hippie 'cultic' family 1969 - First Man on the Moon with Apollo 11 space flight

5. Background 1960’s : The Era of Independent Cinema the decline of the studio system smaller, independent producers more freedom of creativity decade of tremendous social change Civil Rights Era transitional cultural values – rise of feminism

6. Background birth of the multi-plex…demise of the theater palace (e.g. The Crandell) 1 st major foreign film invasion film rating system (MPAA) G, M (similar to PG), R, X (similar to NC-17) new era of directors Independent-minded…creative…ground-breaking…film school graduates Examples – Robert Altman, Woody Allen, John Cassavetes, Stanley Kubrick

7. Major Stars of the 1960’s Frank Sinatra John Wayne

8. Major Stars Continued Jack Lemon Paul Newman

9. First Major African American Star – 1 st to win an Academy Award Sidney PoitierThree Major 1960’s Films To Sir With Love In the Heat of the Night Lilies of the Field

10. Major Stars Continued Elizabeth Taylor Natalie Wood One of the last, if not THE last, stars from the old studio system. Violet eyes. Internationally known.

11. Janet Leigh Touch of Evil (1958) Psycho Psycho (1960) The Manchurian Candidate

12. Memorable 1960’s Movies The Hustler (1961) (Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott) The Hustler The Graduate (1967) (Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman) The Graduate Sound of Music (1965) (Julie Andrews) Easy Rider (1969) (Dennis Hopper – counterculture film) Easy Rider Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) (Audrey Hepbern, George Peppard) 2010 (1969) (Roy Schneider, John Lithgow) 2010