Many of the European films which became famous and acclaimed during this time are still among the staples of any serious film student’s education.
Though the films of this era were harder to see than similar ones of later decades, the pay off was that they and their makers, many fresh and new and filled with innovative ideas, became quite iconic. (This was back in the days when people would still care to congregate together in groups.)
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In those days, the dedicated film lover had to seek these films out in “specialty” theaters which would show non-Hollywood films, museums which were liberal enough to consider film an art form and wished to showcase more “artistic” works, including those from other lands, and that most interesting of vanished movie era artifacts, the film or cinema club or society. This allowed films from independent and foreign sources to finally get a substantial foot in the door of the US film world, in which such films had previously been much more marginalized (though these films were, and are, still far from mainstream fare). This was being facilitated by the Supreme Court anti-trust decision which divorced the studios from the chains of theaters which had been created to exclusively show their films and from the new medium of television, which weakened the film industry’s hold on popular entertainment culture.
The world had become a smaller place during the World War II years and places which had once been nothing but unusual sounding names attached to dots on the map for most US citizens had become quite immediate places.Īdded to this in the US was the fact that the long-standing Hollywood “movie factory” was coming apart. Why that decade? There were a number of reasons. There were occasional films which did break through into the international market in the early years of film but the post World War II period marked the time the European art film began to achieve a real presence in that market. For many years the center of this type of activity was Europe (not that all European films were made for art alone).Įurope has been a center of artistic, often individualized, film making virtually since there has been film making. However, the type of film created for the sake of artistry alone without commercial concern seems to exist mostly outside of the mainstream Hollywood system. This is not to say that any of the types of film making can’t be without a high level of craft and skill. It can also be deeply probing and highly artistic. It can be simply entertaining and very commercial. The medium of film can encompass many aspects.
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