Designers: architects of dreams -- Art director -- Production designer -- Set decorator -- Century of design. Silent era and the twenties: birth of the epic -- Thirties: entertainment as escape -- Forties: the collapse of the dream factory -- Fifties: a decade of widescreen epics -- Fifties: a decade of widescreen and epics -- Sixties: a decade of contrast -- Seventies: a renewed Hollywood -- the birth of the blockbuster -- Eighties: a decade of sequels, costume dramas, and 'greed is good' -- Nineties: genres redefined -- Millennium: advanced special effects, big-budget musicals, and social commentary.
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