American Decades
"Battle Over Television: Hollywood Faces the Fifties: Part II"
Magazine article
By: John Houseman
Date: May 1950
Source: Houseman, John. "Battle Over Television: Hollywood Faces the Fifties: Part II." Harper's Magazine, 200, no. 1200, May 1950, 51–55.
About the Author: John Houseman (1902–1988), a native of Romania, was one of Hollywood's great twentieth century writers, directors, and producers, as well as an active spokesperson for the entire creative community. As an actor, he is best known to modern audiences for his performance as the crusty Professor Charles Kingsfield in the 1973 film The Paper Chase, and the subsequent television series of the same name.
Introduction
Although the motion picture was introduced to the American public around 1890, it was not until the 1915 that movies came of age. In that year, director D.W. Griffith electrified audiences with Birth of a Nation. Up until that...
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1950's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- "Battle Over Television: Hollywood Faces the Fifties: Part II"
- Inflation
- "Television's Big Boom: Still to Come"
- "Over the Top"
- "What the Public Thinks About Big Business"
- "How to Make a Billion: Fables of Texas Oil"
- "Consumer Credit: High But Safe"
- "The South Bets on Industry"
- "Convention Expels Teamsters"
- "Why the Edsel Laid an Egg: Research vs. the Reality Principle"
- "The 'Invisible' Unemployed"
- "It's a Smaller World"
- "The Challenge of Inflation"
- "Success by Imitation"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
