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Post by caseykasemsshaggy on May 24, 2022 4:53:00 GMT -5
despite the abundance of photographs, present-day shows that are set in the 60s/70s never seem to get the hair or clothing right. Admittedly that may be because many people back then often casually wore clothes with copyrighted characters on them (such as t-shirts with the Fonz from "Happy Days" on the front).  |
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Post by doofus67 on Jun 3, 2022 10:46:36 GMT -5
My favorite TV show that took place in that period is The Wonder Years. During the first season, Kevin wore a New York Jets jacket. It's possible that there was a licensing issue that had to be worked out.
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 3, 2022 12:34:22 GMT -5
Loved "The Wonder Years"-I have the entire series on DVD.
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Post by mkarns on Jun 3, 2022 13:04:28 GMT -5
despite the abundance of photographs, present-day shows that are set in the 60s/70s never seem to get the hair or clothing right. Admittedly that may be because many people back then often casually wore clothes with copyrighted characters on them (such as t-shirts with the Fonz from "Happy Days" on the front). "Happy Days" itself was guilty of this, and to some degree so was "Laverne and Shirley". Shows that were supposed to be set in the 50s and 60s instead had some characters with hair and clothing more redolent of the 70s and 80s in which they were produced. |
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jun 3, 2022 15:33:38 GMT -5
I think the movie American Graffiti was one of the few that got it right.
One other thing that irks me as a music historian (is there such a thing) is when movies are supposed to represent a certain time period and they use music that was a hit after the time frame that the film takes place in. Of course, most people probably wouldn't notice something like that but----
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Post by mkarns on Jun 3, 2022 16:03:48 GMT -5
I think the movie American Graffiti was one of the few that got it right. One other thing that irks me as a music historian (is there such a thing) is when movies are supposed to represent a certain time period and they use music that was a hit after the time frame that the film takes place in. Of course, most people probably wouldn't notice something like that but---- Or sometimes music that was popular long before the film's timeframe. "The Sting" might be an example of this: it and the associated soundtrack put Scott Joplin's ragtime atop the charts, which was great--but for the fact that the movie is set in 1936, when ragtime was probably seen as antiquated. Swing bands and Bing Crosby-type crooning would have been more historically accurate for the 1930s. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 3, 2022 17:00:57 GMT -5
"American Graffiti" is one of my favorite movies of all time-It got me interested in oldies music.
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Post by Rodney on Jun 3, 2022 21:03:59 GMT -5
Absolutely LOVED The Wonder Years as well. I’m also loving The Wonder Years reboot.
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Post by Rodney on Jun 4, 2022 6:25:41 GMT -5
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Post by caseykasemsshaggy on Jun 6, 2022 6:28:15 GMT -5
Here's me in the early sixties. Some smartass of the very young generation of the family said i should have been made to switch outfits with the flower girl. Young idiot.  |
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 5, 2022 20:51:30 GMT -5
Does "That 70's Show" from 1988-2004 count?
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Post by laura on Aug 5, 2022 23:22:15 GMT -5
Does "That 70's Show" from 1988-2004 count? It's set from 1976 until the end of the decade so yes. |
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Post by caseykasemsshaggy on Aug 8, 2022 4:10:34 GMT -5
modern period pieces set in the 50s/60s/70s never seem to get the period-appropriate dialog quite right, either. I wish they wouldn't rely on the highly sanitized/bowdlerized speech and slang from Leave it to Beaver or The Brady Bunch as a indication of how we talked back then.
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