"I work with kids aged 12-18 and none of the have any interest in or knowledge of movies or music prior to the 21st century. They have never watched any of the classics like Wizard of Oz, Heidi, Ben Hur, have never seen Fred Astaire dance with Ginger Rogers, never watched Back to the Future, have not listened to classic rock from the 70's. They have no interest in anything that pre-dates them and their present culture. It's kind of sad. When I was growing up I had a wide range of interest in movies and music from different time periods The internet and cell phones didn't exist back then so I had the time to learn about different things."
I didn't have any interest in old movies when I was a kid in the '80s. I saw The Wizard of Oz (1939) multiple times because it was on TV every year (and was considered an "event"), and I liked it, but to this day it's one of only a few movies made before the 1970s that I like.
I liked (and still like) Looney Tunes, though I had no idea at the time that they were all decades old. I assumed they were being currently produced like other cartoons on the air at the time.
On the other hand, when it came to music, I liked "oldies" (mid '50s to early '60s rock and roll) and didn't like then-current '80s music. Oldies just naturally appealed to me; I wasn't influenced by anyone else. My parents only listened to gospel music, and my older brother listened to then-current pop music on the radio. I had never even heard an oldies song until the winter of 1985 when I was almost 11, and I saw a commercial on TV that used the song Rock Around The Clock, and I thought it was the most awesome thing I'd ever heard. I didn't know what it was or how to hear more songs like it though until I discovered an oldies station on the radio a couple years later.
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