How many times have you heard 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' concerning movies? Golden Oldies they are called. The Golden Age of Cinema usually refers to the 1930s but we're adding 30 years or so to that and adding some years before them, if possible.
Movies you could bring the whole family to. Movie Stars were larger than life and nobody really cared or knew about their social life. Lines of people were drawn for every John Wayne movie at the theater. People ran to a Jimmy Stewart/Humphrey Bogart/Charlie Chaplin picture. Before the Production Code really splintered America and movies became very explicit, restrictive, parental guided.
These are all trailers, teasers, re-issues, maybe a few clips. They will be labeled. And all movies are available online or at your local vidoe store. It's a history of the movie industry - when it counted. Before the muti-plexes and instant video trivialized it all.
We are ending it in the 1960s when the counter-culture set in and movies were
stretching the bounderies of taste and what could be shown. Not that these movies were bad but you had to be careful as to what to go and see. Remember, Midnight Cowboy was the first X-rated movie to win a Best Picture Oscar, and that was 1969! Nowadays, that movie would be rather tame in today's standards. To see modern traiers - up to present day - go to D's Trailer Park.
At right are the posters that made up the idea for the above banner and the
red square, above, is our first video. A collage of Alfred Hitchcock thrillers making their reapperance to the big screen. Narrated by Mr. James Stewart and brought to you be Universal Pictures. Click here for a bigger presentation. All movies mentioned in this video should have their own trailer