Television and film were great in the late 60s & 70s.
During the 1950s it was easy to know what people liked and what they would consume. Then the 1960s happened. The Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the overall changing of American consciousness happened. Then people weren’t quite sure what they wanted to see anymore, but it wasn’t always Ward & June Cleaver.
Then the late 1960s & 1970s came in.
Big Studios, not quite knowing what would sell and seeing low budget films bringing in money, were financing a plethora of these avant garde films. This ushered in the Hollywood Renaissance. The overlapping of film and television workers and visionaries created such golden television nuggets as this: A Philip Glass scored, avant garde, geometric animation on no other show than fucking Sesame Street. Very amazing. I’m exhausted and it’s 6AM, so I’ll stop typing now.
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