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Westerns quickly became a staple of 1950s TV entertainment. The first, on June 24, 1949, was the Hopalong Cassidy show, at first edited from the 66 films made by William Boyd . A great many B-movie Westerns were aired on TV as time fillers, starring actors like: Gene Autry , Roy Rogers , Tex Ritter , John Wayne , Lash LaRue , Buster Crabbe ...
This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 1950s. In North America and Europe , the 1950s were revolutionary in regards to popular music, as it started a dramatic shift from traditional pop music to modern pop music, largely in part due to the rise of Rock and roll .
Popular music, or "classic pop," dominated the charts for the first half of the 1950s.Vocal-driven classic pop replaced Big Band/Swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists. 1940s style Crooners vied with a new generation of big voiced singers, many drawing on Italian bel canto traditions.
Madeleine (1950) – British crime drama film based on a true story of Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family who was tried in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier [13] The Magnificent Yankee (1950) – biographical drama film examining the life of United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr ...
By the late 1950s and 1960s, the perception of cartoons as children's entertainment was entrenched in the public consciousness, enough so that Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow, in his landmark 1961 speech "Television and the Public Interest," denounced the medium of animation as a whole and compared it to feeding children ...
February 15, 1950 Cinderella: Walt Disney Animation Studios; distributed by RKO Radio Pictures: July 29, 1950 Treasure Island: Walt Disney Productions; distributed by RKO Radio Pictures: July 28, 1951 Alice in Wonderland: Walt Disney Animation Studios; distributed by RKO Radio Pictures June 26, 1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Films of the 1950s were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television, the studios and companies sought to put audiences back in theaters. They used more techniques in presenting their films through widescreen and big-approach methods, such as Cinemascope, VistaVision, and Cinerama, as well as gimmicks like 3-D film.
Prior to the emergence of television as the dominant entertainment medium in the 1950s, families gathered to listen to the home radio in the evening. The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium.