film music quiz 1950s

1950s main thoughts

• domesticity

• nuclear warfare

  • fallout shelters

• being able to buy things

• les paul guitar

• elvis

movie trends

• more tv’s (very expensive!)

• less ppl going to movies

aspect ratio

ratio of screen width and height, it allowed movie theatres to provide a more immersive experience for audiences

how hollywood combatted against tvs

• wider film

• special lenses

• masked top and bottom

• multiple lenses/cameras

cinerama

wide screen scope

imax

modern widescreen

1950s sci-fi

godzilla, the thing

the day the earth stood still

• bernard herrmann

• alien demands earths leaders choose between peace and destruction

forbidden planet

• louis and bebe barron

• space troopers investigate destruction of colony on remote planet

• electronic tonalities

music on quiz

• diamonds are a girls best friend

• singin in the rain

• colonel bogey

• main title of north by northwest

• main title of vertigo

• ballad of high noon

• blood and fire and thunder

the bridge on the river kwai

• academy award (malcolm arnold)

  • colonel bogey

• blacklist

a streetcar named desire

• jazz

• alex north

  • “stella”

disney

sleeping beauty, alice in wonderland, peter pan, cinderella, lady in the tramp

vertigo

• suspense

• herrmann and hitchcock

high noon

• western

• tiomkin

• filmed in one shot

mandalorian

• modern western

epic films

• big budget, big stories

  • wars, big topics, etc

  • ex. Ben Hur

sword and sandal films

• biblical, classical themes

  • 10 commandments

    • bernstein

  • troy

roadshow theatrical release

• shows released in certain cities before everywhere else (ex. oklahoma)

• modern example

  • hateful 8

broadway musicals

• guys and dolls

• oklahoma

original musicals

• an american in paris

• gigi