1960-1969

1960

• The Magnificent Seven, a takeoff of Seven Samurai, becomes one of the great adventure films.
  
• Alfred Hitchcock releases the psycho-thriller masterpeice, Psycho. Stars Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins.
  
• Godard debuts with Breathless.
  
• Videotape now in general use in broadcasting
  
  1961
  
• West Side Story, directed by Robert Wise is huge musical success.
  
• In Japan, The Human Condition, directed by Masaki Kobayashi, is a trilogy of movies that would be the precurser for the movie patterns of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
  
  1962
  
• Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean & stars Peter O'Toole, Claude Rains & Omar Sharif.
  
• Sean Connery ushers in The James Bond era with Dr. No.
  
• Truffaut's Jules and Jim.
  
• Fellini's 8 1/2
  
  1963
  
• It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World starring two dozen comedians is the first picture to be produced in single lens Cinerama.
  
• In India, one of the first major statements for the feminist movement is made by director Satyajit Ray in the film Manhanagar or The Big City.
  
• Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.
  
• Cleopatra is a notorious financial disaster
  
  1964
  
• Two legendary musical comedies hit the big screen, My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins.
  
• The Beatles make their screen debut in A Hard Day Night.
  
  1965
  
• The Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise becomes the most successful film since Gone With The Wind.
  
• David Lean directs another historical epic, Doctor Zhivago.
  
• Super-8 mm film format introduced for amateur market
  
  1966
  
• One of France's most popular films is released, Un Homme et une Femme.
  
• Bergman's Persona and Antonioni's Blow-Up draw intellectual interest in film.
  
  1967
  
• The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols, stars Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. Pushes the movie censorship codes closer to the edge.
  
• Penn's Bonnie and Clyde sets a pattern of antiheroes that continues through the 70's.
  
• New Line Cinema founded in Greenwich Village by Robert Shaye.
  
  1968
  
• Barbara Streisand makes her screen debut in Funny Girl.
  
• Martin Scorsese directs his first feature, Who's That Knocking At My Door. Debut of Harvey Keitel.
  
• Stanley Kubrick breaks down all barriers in Sci-Fi with 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  
• Franco Zeffirelli triumphs with Romeo and Juliet.
  
  1969
  
• Hollywood announces the first movie rating code G, PG, R, and X.
  
• Easy Rider, the quintessential counter culture film stars and is directed by Dennis Hopper for just $600,000.
  
• Richard Attenborough directs his first film, The Battle of Britian. Is one of the great war movies.
  
• Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch forecasts increase violence in film
  
  
  

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