Early Tv Shows 1940s 1950s
1950's TV Shows If the 1940s were the 'infancy of Television' then the 1950s were the pre-teen years. For years I've been trying to remember the names of all the different TV shows I used to watch back in the 1950s. Some were great and others were bombs, but they are all a part of my memories. Below is a list of programs I can think of, or have been reminded of. If you can think of some I've missed, please use the e-mail link below and send me the name of the missing show(s).
Category:1940s American television series. This is a listing of television shows that originated in the United States. (1949 TV series) Blind Date (1950s. TV programming did not run all day and night. Most parts of rural America had to make do with a single television station. The demand for television sets and programs in the late 1940s set the stage for a revolution that would expand in the 1950s and 60s and change American family life, business, politics, economic, and society.
(Shows that are BOLDFACE were sent to me by others or are shows I do not remember having watched). Some of these titles can be purchased at. Another site offering 'HARD TO FIND VIDEOS' is. If you click here you'll go to the Internet Movie Database site ( ). If you cut and paste a show's title into the search line, you'll be given all kinds of info about that show. This web site has settled many many arguements between my wife and myself.
Those of you from the UK will find some your classic TV programs located at and sites, and (USA, UK & Canada) Click here for the,or here for the TV shows. To search this page 1) press and hold the CTRL button, 2) at the same time, press and release the (letter) F key, 3) enter a key word from the title you want, and 4) click FIND or FIND NEXT and you will be taken to that entry.
1 The American Film Industry in the Early 1950s The Hollywood film industry of 1950 was threatened on several different fronts. Television broadcasting was rapidly becoming the dominant entertainment medium in the. The Paramount anti-trust consent decree requiring separate ownership for production companies and theater chains had gone into effect on 1 January 1950. Large numbers of young men and women were marrying, having children, and moving to the suburbs, which affected the viability of downtown first-run movie theaters.
Foreign revenues were endangered by protectionist tactics including quota systems, high taxes, and blocked funds. Finally, the morality and patriotism of Hollywood films and filmmakers were under attack from government, religious, and citizens' groups. One quick way to get a sense of the film industry's declining fortunes in the early 1950s is to consider box-office statistics. Unfortunately, all such data is approximate. Table 1 presents three versions of the average weekly motion-picture attendance in the.
The most widely quoted source, the U.S. Census Bureau, shows that weekly attendance dropped from 80 million in 1940 and 90 million in 1946 to 60 million in 1950 and 40 million in 1960. Another, possibly more precise, set of figures comes from the Theatre Owners of America (TOA), and covers only 1946-1956. Here, the 1946 peak is lower at 82.4 million per week, but the drop-off starts sooner and is more severe.
Early Tv Shows 1940s 1950s
A third set of figures, derived from U.S. Department of Commerce and Bureau of Labor Statistics data, shows almost a bell curve for 1940—1950. Though the three versions differ, the general trend is the same.
Tv Shows Of The 40s
Admissions rose from 1940 to 1946, and then dropped fairly rapidly so that by 1956 attendance was down almost 50 percent from the 1946 peak. The decline in motion-picture admissions from 1946 to 1960 can be most productively studied in two segments. First, in the late 1940s the drop-off was largely a readjustment after some unusual wartime and postwartime conditions. During and just after, people had money to spend and relatively few ways to spend it.