Check out these history images:

A Brief History of Hollywood

Image by Profound Whatever
1952 – Convinced as always that bigger is better, Hollywood finally decides to fight back with a series of innovations designed to lure audience back to the movies. Theaters across America debut Cinerama: a widescreen process that uses three synchronized projectors and a huge, curved screen to immerse the audience in the action. Similar widescreen systems follow, such as Vista-Vision and Cinemascope, as well as full stereophonic sound. In 1952, MGM releases SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, a send-up of the movie industry’s early years, though itself a shining example of old school Hollywood entertainment. Later that same year, the industry introduces 3-D to theaters with the black-and-white adventure film BWANA DEVIL. Moguls are skeptical of 3-D until the box office receipts come in. But, only a few years later, 3-D disappears from theaters… for a while, at least.

Laboratory at the Museum of Natural History (now the Museum of Natural and Cultural History), University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon (USA) 1966

Image by gbaku
Photo taken in the spring of 1966