1. Good Morning! Today is Friday, May 3
Finish American Graffiti
Quiz on film

3. Year: 1973 Rated PG Genre: Comedy Released By: Universal Award(s) Academy Award Nominee: Best Picture Academy Award Nominee: Best Supporting Actress - Candy Clark Academy Award Nominee: Best Director - George Lucas Academy Award Nominee: Best Film Editing - Verna Fields, Marcia Lucas Academy Award Nominee: Best Original Story and Screenplay - George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck

4. American Graffiti
Young George Lucas' influential hallmark film American Graffiti (1973) recreates the feel, landscape, and sounds of early 60s, small-town America.
An historical time period of John F. Kennedy's Presidency and the New Frontier before the jarring assassination of JFK in November of 1963.
Advertising posters and theatrical trailers for the film asked: "Where were you in '62?", making viewers reflect back to the pre-Beatles era.

5. American Graffiti was released to universal critical acclaim and financial success, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Produced on a $775,000 budget, the film has turned out to be one of the most profitable movies of all time. Since its initial release, American Graffiti has garnered an estimated return of well over $200 million in box office gross and home video sales, not including merchandising. In 1995, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film culturally significant and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

6. The film from Lucas (an ex-USC film student and intern at Warner Bros
The film from Lucas (an ex-USC film student and intern at Warner Bros.) was almost not made when every studio in Hollywood refused it, except for Universal. With its great financial success, 28 year-old Lucas joined the ranks of a new breed of directors, including Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola. It was his second feature film, following THX 1138 (1971).

7. The film was Lucas' homage to the memories of his own teenage years in Modesto, California, remembered with vintage cars and dragsters, drive-ins (Mel's), an almost non-stop rock soundtrack, teenage activities (hot rod crusin' and makin' out), and characteristic hair and clothing styles.

8. Cast Richard Dreyfuss    Curt Henderson Ron Howard    Steve Bolander Charles Martin Smith    Terry Fields Paul Le Mat    John Milner Harrison Ford    Bob Falfa Cindy Williams    Laurie Henderson Candy Clark    Debbie Dunham Kathleen Quinlan    Peg, girl at dance Suzanne Somers    Blonde in T-Bird

9. Credits
George Lucas: Director Gloria Katz: Writer George Lucas: Writer Willard Huyck: Writer Francis Ford Coppola: Producer Gary Kurtz: Producer George Lucas: Co-Producer Ron Everslage: Cinematographer Jan D'Alquen: Cinematographer - Technicolor Verna Fields: Editor Marcia Lucas: Editor Dennis Clark: Art Director Douglas Freeman: Set Decorator Aggie Guerard Rodgers: Costumes

13. Quotes
Carol: Your car is uglier than I am. That didn't come out right.
Curt Henderson: I'm telling you this was the most perfect, dazzling creature I've ever seen!
Steve Bolander: She's gone. Forget it.
Curt Henderson: She spoke to me, she spoke to me right through the window. I think she said I love you. That means nothing to you people? You have no romance, no soul? Someone wants me. Someone roaming the streets wants me. Will you turn the corner?

14. American Graffiti location: The teens cruise the main drag: Petaluma Boulevard, Petaluma, California