1960
Indian
Film Finance Corporation formed
first
drive-in in Europe
US
Screen Actors Guid reaches agreement with Hollywood majors about
broadcast residuals
Indian
government acquires Prabhat Film Studios to establish Film Institute
of India
est.
10% of French homes have TV
Disney
buys ABC's one-third interest in Disneyland for $7.5 million and
pays off all loans
1961
Cisneros
Venevision tv network founded
black
box flight recorder invented
TWA
becomes first US airline with inflight film
first
electronic game - Spacewars - from MIT
US
boxing match test shows potential of pay-TV
FCC
approves FM stereo broadcasting
Washington
Post buys Newsweek magazine
1962
Telstar satellite transmits TV image across Atlantic
first
Visa credit card
Decca
sells Universal to MCA
1963
audio
tape cassette
Zip
codes started in US
CBS
and NBC TV newscasts expand to 30 minutes in color
Polaroid
instant color photography
estimated
80.97 million phones in US; world total estimated at 159 million
Leo
Kirch founds Taurus Film which later becomes largest producer of
film and television content for German-speaking market
German
Federal Film Funding Act
Warners
buys Sinatra's ailing Reprise records
Svenska
Filminstitutet founded
CBS
leases Republic's San Fernando studio
1964
National
Film Archive of India established
Olympic
Games in Tokyo telecast live globally by satellite
Touch
Tone telephones and Picturephone service
Oz
censorship trial in Australia
IDC
founded
Bertelsmann
takes over UFA cinema chain
Leo
Kirch and Herbert von Karajan form Cosmotel classical music film
production
1965
Quebecor
media group founded
cigarette
ads banned on UK television
Kodak's
Super 8 film for home movies
cartridge
audio tapes
The
Pawnbroker is first major Hollywood film to feature frontal nudity
US
Supreme Court rules that aspects of New York and Maryland film censorship
laws are unconstitutional
1966
Gulf+Western
conglomerate buys Paramount
Xerox
markets Telecopier, first US fax machine
first
direct TV pictures from Moon
Walt
Disney dies of lung cancer, J Edgar Hoover orders name removed from
list of FBI's informants
Denmark's
Flamingo Film sold to Laterna
Georgie
Girl becomes first film to carry US 'recommended for mature audiences'
label
ABC
network pays $2 million for rights to Bridge on the River Kwai -
screening attracts 60 million viewers
CBS
network establishes Cinema Center Films
1967
prerecorded
movies on videotape sold for home use
cordless
telephones
estimated
200 million telephones in world - half are in the US
US
Public Broadcasting Act
CBS
buys Republic's San Fernando studio
Seven
Arts buys Warner Bros for $95 million then merges with subsidiary
as Warner-Seven Arts
Atlantic
records bought by Warner-Seven Arts
New
Line Cinema founded
1968
Thames
TV founded, later acquired by Pearson
eight
inch floppy diskette
200
million TV sets in the world - 78 million in US
RAM
chip reaches market
EMI Buys Warner Bros stake in ABPC
1969
Comcast
formed
estimated
97% of US households have tv
Midnight
Cowboy is first major US X-rated film
Warner-Seven
Arts acquired by Kinney National, becomes Warner Communications
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