1970's+Entertainment

**Entertainment in the 1970's**
Entertainment back in the 1970's was very different from entertainment now in the 21st century. In the 70's, rock and disco were very popular. Some of the movies and television series that were favored back then are still popular today, movies like Jaws and television series like Sesame Street. A lot of toys that many people played with are still being played with now in the 21st century. Disco and Rock music were the mainstream genre of music. One of the most anticipated groups was The Jackson 5.

**Televisions**
In the 70's there were many in demand television shows that are still watched today. Shows like Here's Lucy, Hawaii Five-O, Happy Days, All in the Family were some of the many top rated television shows that many people favored in 1970s. Hawaii Five-O was a crime and mystery genre that was one of the top 20 popular television shows. The show was directed by Director Michael O'herlihy who had filmed many other popular shows like Star Trek, Maverick, Gunsmoke and M*A*S*H which all turned out very successful. Jack Lord was the lead actor in Hawaii Five-O who everyone remembered as Steve Mcgarett, he was an actor, director, and a producer. Hawaii Five-O first aired on January 14, 1970, it was filmed in Hawaii and had 9 seasons and 281 episodes. It ended in 1980 with season 12, episode 19. Here's Lucy was about a widow with two children working for her brother-in-law, its first air date was on September 23, 1968 and appeared on the Top 20 show twice in 1970s. Here's Lucy was a comedy sitcom that many enjoyed watching. Lucy Carter was played by Lucille Ball who was in many other Lucy series like "I Love Lucy" with her husband in 1951. Here's Lucy had six seasons and 47 episodes, the show ended in 1974. All in the Family was one of the top rated shows in 1970s, it was the first television show that appeared on Top Rated Show five times in a row. The show was about a working family man who tried to teach his family about the world in his point of view. All in the Family was a comedy and drama series that first aired on January 12, 1971 in Hollywood. The lead actor was Carroll O'connor who starred as Archie Bucker. The show ended in 1979 with nine seasons and 208 episodes, it ended with season nine and episode 24.

Happy Days was not a very popular television show but it had high ratings. The show was about a family living in the 1950's with help from a greaser named Fonzie, two of the lead actors were Henry Winkler as Fonzie and Tom Bosley as Howard Cunningham, the man of the family. Gary Marshall was the creator of the show; he was a producer, writer and an actor. It was a comedy, family and music genre show that first aired on January 15, 1974 in Hancock Park, Los Angeles. It ended in 1984 with 11 seasons and 255 episodes. Sesame Street was one of the most popular children television shows that started in the 1970's and still airs today. The show took place in a city where both humans and puppets lived. It taught children educational subjects by playing games and singing and being active. Sesame Street was an animation and comedy series for baby and toddlers getting ready for school. It first aired on Novmeber 10, 1969 in Queen, New York City. (It is on PBS a educational channel for children and adult,) on each episode, there would be famous person on the show to teach kids about school manners and friendship. The show hasn't ended though it first started in 1969 andstill air in the year of 2011; it has about 753 episodes that are still airing and about 42 seasons now. One of the many puppet that everyone know is Elmo played by [|Kevin Clash], Big Bird is another popular character played by Caroll Spinney. Sesame Street had won seven Primetime Emmy in the past years, and 146 other awards and 255 nominations. ====

Movies
Rocky The movie Rocky was created in 1976 and was an extremely successful movie. The movie is about a boxer named Rocky who wants to improve his life. His current job was a debt collector. One day he met a women named Adrian who was shy especially around guys. The two eventually fell in love with each other. Then heavyweight champion boxer Apollo Creed challenged Rocky to a match. Rocky's ex- trainer (Mickey) starts to train with him again and after a long session of training, Rocky is finally ready for the match. He wanted to prove that he could beat Apollo. It was filmed in 28 days along with a budget of one million dollars. The movie grossed over 100 million dollars. Even though it had a low budget, it was put along with the other major and successful movies like Star Wars (1977) and Jaws (1975).

**[|Jaws]** Jaws was the first film to get a gross of more than $100 million, and it brought [|Steven Spielberg] into the mainstream of directing. John Williams the creator of many famous movies like Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, and Jaws was one of the movies that won an Academy Awards along with Star Wars which was another big hit movie directed he had John Williams, who also created the theme song for it. Jaws start when Steven visited John's studio and played two notes on the piano for the theme, and got the idea for the theme song of Jaws. Because Jaws was a big hit, the second Jaws that was a crowd-pleaser, just from two notes on a piano. Jaws became a very popular movie in the 1970's throughout present day. Roy Scheider played the chief, Matin Brody of island Amity, Sam Quint was the fisherman portrayed by Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss was the scientist Matt Hooper. The movie was released to the audience on June 22, 1975 and had 409 screens playing, with a budget of around $8,000,000 and a gross of $430,510,134 worldwide and $7,061,513 in the USA on the opening weekend. Jaws was filmed on Mertha's Vineyard, Massachusestts, Jaws was a thriller genre that had an outstanding screenplay that scared the audience even thirty years after the worldwide premiere. Jaws won three Oscars and nine other awards and 13 nominations. [|Star Wars] Star wars was considered one of the greatest films of all time by the director and writer [|George Lucas]. John Willian helped compose the theme song for Star Wars; it would become the most popular soundtrack of all time. Star Wars initially breaking the box office record set by Jaws after six month and earned billions of dollars. The theme song for Star Wars that William compose that no single orchestral score had more of an influence of the history of movies and music. Star Wars and Jaws within two year elevating William to the top composer of the 70's. The movie was release on May 25, 1977 with a budget of $11 million and a gross of $775,398,007 worldwide and $1,554,475 in the USA on the opening weekend on May 30, 1977. Star Wars won six Oscars, 28 other awards and 21 nominations. Luke Skywalker was characterized by Mark Hanmill, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia and James Earl Jones the voice of Darther Vader, David Prowse as Darther Vader are the three characters that many know of. "May the force be with you," is a line that many know of from the movie. Star Wars was an action, adventure, fantasy and Sci-Fi movie genre. Star Wars was about a farm boy named Luke Skywalker who found a silly pair of Droid that carry the secret to destroying the most powerful weapon in Galactic Empire.

=**Musics **= Disco and Rock were the many genres of music that many people liked in the 1970s. There was many famous singers and groups that were favored then, like the Jackson Five and Bob Marley. Rock at that time became the most listened to, Disco slowly become less popular than Rock. The hustle resulted in popular dance moves like the jerky and the " Continental walk". Freestyle dance genre is still popular today. Jackson Five The Jackson Five formed in 1966 in Gary, IN and Jackson five was one of the biggest pop music of the early '70s. The Jackson Five consist five the Jackson brothers, Jackie (Oct 15, 1951), Tito (Dec 4, 1953), Jermaine (Dec 11, 1954) the lead vocal, and Marlon (Mar 12, 1957) and the youngest Michael (Aug 29, 1958) who was also the lead vocal. The Jackson Five were a funky pop soul band that many loved and some of their single is the most vibrant mainstream pop and R&B. The Jackson Five start with Jackie, Tito and Jermaine in 1962, later on Michael and Marlon join them. The end of 1967 Jackson Five made their first studio recording for the small Gary-based steeltown label. On October 7, 1969 the Jackson Five release their first single " I Want You Back," it became a number one hit on both pop and R&B charts. Their next two singles "ABC" and "The Love You Save." Jackson Five release "Mama's Pearl" and balled song "Never Can Say Goodbye" and "Maybe Tomorrow" was the first single that did not make the pop Top Ten but still make the R&B Top Five. Michael was the first to go solo in 1971 with "Got To Be There" and Rockin' Robin," which both made the Top Five. Jermaine debuted end of 1972 with "Daddy Home" made to Top Ten. In 1976 the Jackson Five left Motown because they though that Motown did not want to work with them and went to sign with Epic. The Jackson Five had to change their name to Jackson because Motown won a breach-of-contract settlement and retained the name Jackson Five. Jermaine couldn't go with his brother because he was married to Berry Gordy's founder of Motown Daughter Hazel, he was than replace by the youngest Randy (Oct 29, 1961). 1984 Jermaine rejoin for their last single Victory with all six brothers, in 1997 Jackson Five was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Disco
In 1970's the "Disco Swing" was born, but many other people refer this to the "Hustle". Disco is one of the most popular genre of music back in the 1970's. It started in Philadephia, the african americans and hispanics created it. The music album was released in 1972. Disco is a type of music for dancing. Disco was influencedby rock, soul, blues, and funk music. The dance moves involves turns, twist, and alot of hand movements. It was closely related to the swing from the 1950's - 1960's. the dance moves were also a combination of salsa and the mambo. Some of the popular songs for disco is The Bee Gees- " You should be dancing" (1976), "Staying alive",(1977-1987) and "Night Fever" (1978).

Toys
Since not all the kids back then had electronics most of them played with toys. Some of the toys back in 70's still exist today. Silly putty, Barbies, and Hot Wheels are some of the toys that are still being played with today. Though we have a lot of electronics today, kids still sometimes play with toys and action figures.

[|Silly Putty]
Silly Putty was accidentally invented. In 1943, an engineer named James Wright discovered synthetic rubber. He combined boric acid and silicone oil together, in which it resulted in a gob of goo. Wright discovered that they gob of goo could bounce, could stretch further than normal rubber, have a high melting temperature, and it didn't collect mold. The substance was passed around to friends and families, they were used at parties and other celebrations. In 1949, Ruth Fallgatter, (an owner of a toy shop) ran across the goo. She sold the "Bouncing Putty" for 2 dollars a piece and it outsold everything except the Crayola Crayons which were only 50 cents a box. After a year, Fallgetter dropped the "Bouncing Putty" from her catalog. When Fallgatter dropped the item from the her catalog, a man named Peter Hodson saw the chance and took it even though he was already $12,000 in debt. He had Yale students separate the putty and then package them in red plastic eggs.He renamed the the Bouncing Putty, and called it the "Silly Putty" because he thought that the name " Bouncing Putty did not describe the unique goo. He also lowered the cost and sold it for only $1 per egg. The Silly Putty became famous when a reporter ran across it and wrote an article about it. . After that, orders for Silly Putty started to overflow.

[|Barbies]
The barbie doll was invented in 1959 by Ruth Handler. She had a daughter named Barbara and decided to name the doll " Barbie". The name of the first barbie doll was named Barbie Millicent Robert. Barbie's hair usually came in blonde or brunette,but later in 1961 she came out in red hair. The first Black and Hispanic barbies were made in 1980, but Barbie did have a black friend named Christie who was introduced back in 1969. Barbie's job was to be a teenage model, but they made over a 100 versions to connect to different careers. The first barbie was only $3 but the ones with the runaway trends ranges from $1-5. The first year that Barbie came out, 300,000 barbies were sold. In 1965, Barbie had bendable legs and eyes that opened and shut. And later in 1967, there was "Barbie Twist n' Turn", this gave Barbie a twist-able waist. The style would change year after year because the trend each year would be different.

[|Hot Wheels]
In 1968 Elliot Handler wanted to invent die-cast cars for boys.At first his executives thought that it would be a bad idea, but it turned out to be a big hit. 16 were released in 1968, 11 of them were designed by Harry Bradley. For the cars to be able move fast on the plastic tracks, the company decided to use cheap, durable, and low friction plastic called Delrin. The cars could go up to 200 mph.Hot Wheels were known as the Redline era until 1977. Since Hot Wheels were made mostly for boys, there wasn't alot of pink models. Hot Wheels were used for promotions, so they were modeled after real cars. But in 1972, the Hot Wheels didn't sell well because the real cars didn't do well either. 1974 was the first year that the Hot Wheel cars were enameled, Mattel started using Tampo- printed ink graphics instead of using stickers on the cars. Each year, the company would produce newer models to match the all the new car trends for that year.



Other Electronics
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 29px;">Back in the 1970's there wasn't much electronics, and their quality wasn't the best either. Their electronics back then was not as advance as it is today. Televisions, handheld games, cameras, and radios would all fall under this category. The most popular electronic back then would be the television because there was alot of popular television shows back in the 70's. Even though handheld games were invented back then, they didn't have alot of games to play with. Radios and cameras back then is nothing like how it is today in the 21st century. Though some of these electronics were not very popular back then because they were still developing, they existed and have change the world of entertainment for us.

<span style="color: #7d7dde; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; line-height: 29px;">**[|Cameras]**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The first photograph was in 1827 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce who was using a camera obscura. The picture (after being exposed to 8 hours sunlight) would start to fade. Louis Daquerre was also trying to find a way to reduce the amount of exposed time and make the photograph last a little longer before fading away. Louis and Joseph decided to team up and improve the photographing process. In 1839, after Joseph's death and alot of experimenting, Louis had finally found a way to make the process that Joseph first created easier. He named it the " Daquerreotype ". He had made the photograph last longer meaning that it would not fade away right after.. In 1879, the dry plate and handheld cameras were invented. Dry Plates would be able to last a longer period of time. The dry process was able to take in alot of light much quicker leading it to the invention of the handheld camera. The invention of film rolls were in 1889, they had to kept carefully because they were highly flammable. This was important because in the mid 1920' they were film rolls for cameras.Most films were produced using this method until the 1970's. 1940's was when the colored photographs were first invented.

**<span style="color: #7d7dde; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|Television] **
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Television was invented due to other experimenting and inventions. In 1926, a British inventor named Charles Jenkins was the first person who had success in transmitting moving pictures through the mechanical disk system invented by Nipkow. A mechanical disk was created to send images/ pictures through wires, it was invented in the late 1800's. All the television had been mechanical until 1934, it was then converted to an electronic system. Colored television didn't come until around the 1940's. They did alot of experimenting because it was harder to get color on television since the television sets were not compatible with the systems. In 1947, RCA was able to transmit color to FCC successfully. The first colored broadcast production took place on January 1, 1954. The first television sets did not include color and it got pictures through radio waves. They were sold from 1928 - 1934, and they costed around $6,000 which was too much for the average family to purchase. But after World War 2, they became cheaper so that more people would be able afford it.

<span style="color: #7d7dde; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|Radio]
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The radio was invented thanks to 2 other inventions, the telephone and the telegraph. The first time a voice was heard on the radio was in 1892 by Nathan B. Stubblefield. The first speech boardcasted on the radio was in 1915, from New York to San Francisco and from Arlington, Virginia to the Eiffel Tower in Paris.On November 2, 1920, people began making schedules for radio programs. Edwin Howard Armstrong invented the FM radio in 1933. It improved the signals which meant that things could be heard more clearly. Radios then started to improve alot, and finally in 1954, a Japanese company named Sony made the transistor radio.

By Trammy and Vy
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