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Film theater attendance declines due to the popularity of television.
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The Motion Pictures Production Code prohibits films dealing with abortion or narcotics.
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The first animated cartoon short filmed in 3-D was Walt Disney's Melody.
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Walt Disney opened his first theme park, Disneyland, in California. It Cost f $17 million.
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Elvis' first film Love Me Tender is released and is a sucess.
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The amount of Drive-in theatres peak at about 5,000 arcoss the United States.
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Jack Nicholson Makes His FIlm Debut in the film The Cry Baby Killer.
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the Aroma-Rama was used to pump scent into the theatre through the air-conditioning system. the Aroma-rama went out of style very fast, but it was used in a few films such as Behind the Great Wall which was released in 1959.
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Ben-Hur Breaks the record for the most Oscars ever won by one film. This record has been tied by two other films (Titanic and Lord of the Rings Return of the King) but no film has broken the record yet.
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Marlon Brando is paid $1 Million to appear in the The Fugitive Kind.
