(sidney lumet) you were coming to their homes.ew experience in the history of entertainment and i don't know whether we know its significance yet. (charles champlin) it was a time of terrifying transition. television was taking hold, the graph of television sets and uses climbing like this, and the graph of attendance was going like that. (music playing) (clicking of movie projector coming to a stop) hey, that was a good movie. yeah, seen it here before once. well, s'long, miss mosey. sorry you're closin' the show. nobody wants to come to shows no more. got baseball in the summer, television all the time. won't be much to do in town with the picture show closed. yeah. (charles champlin) hollywood was in a very peculiar period then. you had a curious hesitation of leadership in the industry, and i think they didn't quite know how to cope with tv. (upbeat music playing) (jonas rosenfield) when i was at 20th century fox, we developed the theme "movies are better than ever," we went around to promote that to the exhibitors, the indust