6/10/2023 0 Comments Lucille ball 1940sWhen New Hollywood auteurs started making boundary-pushing road movies in the late 1960s and 1970s, cars became the ultimate symbol of the freedom they so openly yearned for.Īnd then, of course, you have the car chase movie. And when cars became faster and more colorful after World War II, the movies did too. The most glamorous vehicles of the 1930s and 1940s fit right into the lavish Art Deco sets of Old Hollywood. The two art forms have essentially grown up together, as the past 100 years of movies also serves as a document of the way car design has evolved. For as long as people have been driving cars, there have been people who wanted to stand next to them with a camera and film it. The timing was extremely convenient for the movie business, as cars quickly became a favorite subject for artists exploring their newfound abilities to capture moving images. The beginning of the 20th century was accompanied by two new technologies that would permanently alter life as we know it: the automobile and the motion picture.
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