I liked this assignment because it was pretty similar to one we did a few weeks ago showing the change over time of websites (I think the example someone used was McDonalds, and I think I did Yahoo!), but it’s always pretty cool to check out how a product has changed.  At first I thought about doing television, the actual object not shows, but then thought it would be pretty applicable to do movies, since this is a class focused on digital stories.  I chose these films cause they were some of the more iconic of their time, and I don’t know any other movies in the 40s/50s except for It’s A Wonderful Life.  The one major thing that I noticed, outside of obvious technological/special effects upgrades, was how movies became a lot more science fiction during the 70s and 80s, and pretty much continued to modern day like that.  I’m not sure if I’m just over-generalizing cause I know there are other genres out there, but I’m thinking that maybe it was a little more taboo back in the early days to make up such an outlandish movie, whereas nowadays they’re everywhere.