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Until 1903, films had been one-reelers, usually lasting 10 to 12 minutes, [1] reflecting the amount of film that could be wound onto a standard reel for projection, hence the term. Edwin S. Porter was a former projectionist and exhibitor who had taken charge of motion-picture production at Thomas Edison 's company in 1901 .
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.
Pages in category "1950s Western (genre) television series" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The best western and cowboy movies of all time, from Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone, John Wayne, and John Ford, to Quintin Tarantino and the Coen brothers.
8. ‘No Country for Old Men’ (2007) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%. IMDb Score: 8.2/10. Directed by the Coen Brothers and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin, this movie adapted ...