This is the presentation for my Film History Class

1.  The decade began with Hollywood
experiencing financial and artistic problems.
 The younger generation of free love, drug use
and the changing climate for gender roles
effected the decades movie making
 Restrictions on creativeness, violence language
and sexuality had gone down.
 This enabled young directors known as “movie
brats” to be creative and begin a “new wave”
of cinema.

2.  Considered the renaissance of American film
making, studios were looking for the big
blockbuster, only putting money in to a few
films hopping one or two would make a
substantial profit.
 Much of the industries focus was on box office
numbers and creating action packed films with
new effects for the younger generation
 Although this made it difficult to predict what
would be a hit.

3.  Jaws was the highest Until Star Wars in
grossing film ever. 1977
 1975

4.  Scooby Doo is and iconic cartoon which first
appeared in late 1969 early 1970.
 Created by Hanna-Barbara Productions.
 Similar productions include: The
Flintstones, Jetsons, Jonny Quest and Dextors
Laboratory.
 A half speaking great dane and his friends
Shaggy, (the stoner) Velma( the brains) and
Fred (the jock), would spend each episode
solving supernatural mysteries.

5.  Scooby doo is derived
from the Frank Sinatra
song, “Strangers in
the Night.

6.  Many known actors
have voiced characters
on the show.
 Don Messic and Casey
Kasem as Scooby due
and Shaggy.
 The Adams
Family, Batman and
Robin and the Three
Stooges also made at
least two appearances
on the show.

7.  Scooby-Doo spawned
multiple remakes and redus
of the show over the past 40
years.
 Some versions feature a
different variations on the
shows supernatural theme.
 The show has included other
characters such as Scooby's
cousin Scooby-Dum and
Scrappy-Doo
 Lastly the live versions of
Scooby-Doo featuring some
of Hollywood's biggest
actors, including Mathew
Lillard and Sarah Michelle
Gellar.

8.  Grease is a cult classic made in 1978.
 It is a Broadway play turned movie
 Written by Jim Jacobs (musical) Warren Casey
(musical), Screenplay and Adaptation by:
Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr.
 Staring John Travolta (Danny Zuko), Olivia
Newton-John (Sandy
Olsen), StockardChanning (Betty Rizo) and Jeff
Conway( Kenickie)

9.  Grease is based on a high school
in 1958-59
 Made in the 70’s at the peak of
the sexual revelation that would
arrive in the mid 60’s but
flourish during the 70’s
 Seen threw the eyes of its two
main character Danny and
Sandy, representing the
segment already experiencing
there own sexual revolution.
 Eventually conforming sandy to
express her sexuality without
fear or shame.
 These same ideas were starting
to flourish with the female
population of the 1970’s of
strong women and gender
reassignment.

10.  The end of Grease suggest that lasting, healthy
relationship can only last when both partners
are openly themselves, with out regard for
outside opinions and social conventions.
 Grease is a movie about the times to come. The
seeds of what blossomed into the 70’s where
people and the country were changing.

11.  There were three
distinct cultures in the
50’s.
 Mainstream middle
America, New York
(including the beat
writers) and
teenagers.

12.  Apocalypse Now was
made in 1979
 Written and Directed
by: Francis Ford
Coppola and John
Milius.
 Narrated Michael
Herr,
 Based on the novel
Heart of Darkness by:
Joseph Conrad

13.  A war Revisited  America Abroad

14.  Apocalypse now was one of the first hit
independent movies made in the 70’s by the
crop of new directors starting to break the
barriers.
 Based on the novel Heart of Darkness it keeps
it gritty edge by being shot out of the box and
on site

15.  Heart of Darkness  Apocalypse now

16.  During this time period a group of young
directors emerged
 The new age of open thinking creative young
directors gave way to the cinema we see today.

17.  Drugs and Pop culture pointed a new direction
in film making.
 Censorship and or the lack there of made it
easier for young directors to be artistic and
speak there minds.

18.  Animal house is the iconic sex, college teenage
comedy.
 Most of the films we watch today such as
American Pie or the Hangover would not be
around today if not for animal house

19.  Written by: Harold Ramis Douglas Kenny and
Chris Miller.
 Directed by John Landis
 Animal house reaches in the the college culture
of the 70’s
 With the country excepting sex, drugs rock and
role and gender reassignment both young
writers and directors were able to be artistic
and not worry about offending anyone.

20.  Staring some of today's and yesterdays greatest
comedic actors.
 John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Karen Allen and
Donald Sotherland were some of the stars of
this movie.
 Showing the growth of two college freshman
just trying to be excepted by there pers.

21.  The toga party and the road trip are main
themes in the movie. Beginning a kind of
comedy that we see today.
 The music and life style of the 70’s is in full
view for the world to see.
 The coming of age for these two freshman and
soon to graduate seniors is a crystal ball into
what people went threw and how they change
movie making in the 70’s

22.  Famous Scenes