Book: Movies And TV

On Old Movies

Tom Beaver

11 Sep 2026 • 1 min read

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For me this was true well into my adulthood. Even though there were old movies, TV shows and music I liked, they were the exception more than the rule. I tended not to like movies from before 1950 or TV and music from before 1960. Too much black and white, to much stagey acting, too many actors who were now very old or dead—and in the case of music, so much music that didn’t sound like what came with and after The Beatles.

Eventually, I came to enjoy,

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