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Not the OP, but the first two reasons why TV & movies from 70 years ago age worse are:

1. Quality of special effects 2. Specifically for TV, it was often treated as the medium where you dump scripts that weren’t good enough to be made into a movie.




The vast, vast majority of content from 70 years ago doesn't have special effects at all.

And I'm sorry but that's not how scripts work. Episodic television and one-off movies have entirely different dramatic structures and aren't even remotely interchangeable. You can't just turn a movie into TV.

One of the greatest TV shows of all time, I Love Lucy, is from 70 years ago. And in terms of enjoyment, it hasn't aged at all. Nor did it require special effects. ;)

Above all, the 1950's was called the "Golden Age of Television" for a reason! [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Television




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