Four years later Walt Disney productions brought out The Love Bug, which became the top-grossing movie of the year, attracting far more people in that year than countercultural films such as Easy Rider and Alice's Restaurant. While attendance and sales figures do not tell the whole story, by any means, about popular tastes, they suggest an obvious continuity: millions of people still demanded non-threatening "family" entertainment. Sensational media accounts focusing on cultural "revolution" in the 1960s left a false impression of the decade: significant continuities were a feature of popular
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