By: Om

Om — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 01:38:58 +0000

What about casablanca

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 12:49:45 +0000

As a writer from generation X trying to write historical fiction, this is really helpful

By: Jeweler's Granddaughter

Jeweler's Granddaughter — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:17:46 +0000

There seems to be a considerable gap in time between the end of 1943, when the world was buried at its deepest point fighting Axis oppression, tyranny and genocide, and the beginning of 1949, when the War had already been “won and done” for five full years, and the Post-War economy was in the midst of an upswing the likes of which we had never seen before, or would again.
Just as a “for instance” I should think the fact that incredibly talented and prolific film director William Wyler lost most of his hearing during flights over Europe during the War to produce military films, with his hearing unprotected, rendering him almost too deaf to continue working after the war, would be worth at least a passing mention. He did become a disabled veteran through his own efforts to do his job as well as he possibly could. Between his production of “Mrs. Miniver” in 1941-42 and “The Best Years of Our Lives” in 1946, he made no civilian films whatsoever – just documentary style educational films for the Army to use for education of the troops. Were it not for the innovative thinking of a cameraman on the project to produce “Best Years…” who devised a hearing amplification device that allowed Wyler to at least hear his actors, so that he could direct them, we might have all been denied one of the best films ever to be made.
Is there nothing more to be said about movie production and the many changes in focus, giving us, for example, the incredibly innovative genre of Film Noir, to follow the oh-so escapist themes produced during the War, and the upgrades in technical areas, as well as a few “back steps” that were taken during the rest of the War period, both in the US and elsewhere, and the rest of the decade leading up to the Fifties? That seems like a considerable gap to leave swinging wide open with nothing at all to fill it!
And I was surprised to see so much focus put on unfamiliar automobiles of foreign manufacture for so many time periods and categories after assuming that this was to cover primarily domestic issues, but then seeing so little of it in such a significant category. There were many automobiles of significance in all the categories and many of the decades, which get left out completely,
There’s quite a bit of social history covered here for any decade, in many categories. But still, I am finding significant gaps of time left uncovered in many of them. I realize that it takes considerable effort and study to compile the amount of information that has been posted. But it also seems like so much is left out, as well.
I am still enjoying what I do find here, and applaud your efforts. I hope to see more of it in the near future!

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 01 May 2015 21:57:42 +0000

At 84 I’m really enjoying browsing around your appealing website. Very well done! Like Oliver Twist, “I want some more” 🙂 Thank you for your efforts which I am certain echos many of us old-timers.

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