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Hey Phelpsie.
If you want to see a retrospective. ' end of an era's Sixties flick, nothing tops AMERICAN GRAFITTI.
It's a totally different milieu from what I experienced but it still hits home.
But you already knew that.
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Howard L and Mr. Marshall - trapped in our memories of the Sixties.
Wistful Jim - trapped in his fantasies of the Sixties.
It's all good!
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Sep 11, 2019 - 9:55 AM
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Howard L
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Add this into the mix. From today's (print) NY Times re Robert Frank, 1924-1919--
He was best known for his groundbreaking book, "The Americans," a masterwork of black and white photographs drawn from his cross-country road trips in the mid-1950s and published in 1959.
"The Americans" challenged the presiding midcentury formula for photojournalism, defined by sharp, well-lighted, classically composed pictures, whether of the battlefront, the homespun American heartland or movie stars at leisure. Mr. Frank's photographs --of lone individuals, teenage couples, groups at funerals and odd spoors of cultural life--were cinematic, immediate, off-kilter and grainy, like early television transmissions of the period.
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1950-53: Korean War, yet the decade still feels like the 1945-49 post-WWII era.
1954-56: Rise of Rock & Roll and civil rights movement. Youth becomes all the friggin' rage.
1957-60: The Big Empty, pop culturally speaking though there are some glimmers of hope, namely jazz.
No? Yes? Discuss.
I'm much more interested in post war England than the US.
Looking for little clues to the rise of The Beatles.
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I think I might have seen this in the theater as a very young lad.
That cow killing scene made a huge impression on me; doubt it would have had I seen it on tv.
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Lately I've found myself hitting the brakes on pop culture after 1963. Besides, The Brothers Four and the Cartwrights are my "fab four." 
I'm also presently burned out on 1964-65 to 1975 pop culture and history, so what gave rise to The Beatles--many years of post-war austerity and the desire to live their rock fantasies probably had a lot to do with it--interests me far less than in previous years.
British "Kitchen Sink" films from the 1950s interest me, but the whole era in that country seemed relentlessly bleak. I'm sure one of our UK FSMers could inform us as to how it all was, but since they're not reading this they won't.
I assume you watched MAD MEN. The first threee seasons are a great evocation of early 60s America!
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I assume you watched MAD MEN. The first threee seasons are a great evocation of early 60s America!
Watched it and own it on DVD. I'm due back in their world soon, so to speak, as a rewatch is on my horizon.
You're the Pete Campbell of FSM.
I'll take his wife!
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