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There were some television sets back in the '50s, but they were expensive. People would gather at the rich guy's apartment down the hall to watch Milton Berle on his 10-inch black-and-white screen.

— Al Feldstein

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

— Rick Moranis

I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

— Kevin Bacon

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

— Jack Kilby

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

— Michael Kors

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

— Leonard Maltin

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

— Sally Field

I think back to my time in children's television, back in the 1970s, and the amount of innovation that was going on then. Because the mass market wasn't focused on it, so you had a freedom to do amazing things, like 'Vision On,' and 'Tiswas.'

— Sylvester McCoy

✗Opposing Perspectives

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

— Daniel Clowes

We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father Knows Best' and 'The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet' Nelson were documentaries filmed with hidden cameras in our neighborhood.

— Richard Corliss

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

— Michael Winterbottom