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Post by marysara1 on Jun 4, 2023 13:09:30 GMT
In a scene from Clash by night a character at the movies said this is where we came in. Was it confusing to watch a movie in a different order and not from the beginning.MEtv said before Jaws the studios released their blockbusters at holidays.As for the Seven Year Itch how many movies were watched for other reasons than popularity. Monroe's character agreed to go to the movies because of the air-conditioning.
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Post by topbilled on Jun 4, 2023 13:49:36 GMT
Some people went to the movies to hide out. LOL
John Dillinger, as depicted in the movie DILLINGER (1945), went to the Biograph movie theater in Chicago with his girlfriend, while dodging the law. But the cops caught up with him and killed him outside the theater after the movie finished. It happened on the night of July 22, 1934. They had been watching MGM's MANHATTAN MELODRAMA starring Clark Gable.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jun 4, 2023 13:50:20 GMT
In a scene from Clash by night a character at the movies said this is where we came in. Was it confusing to watch a movie in a different order and not from the beginning....
For context, the "loop around to where we came in" would include, not only the main picture, but also, possibly, a short, a newsreel and some cartoons. It was a full night of entertainment that just ran on a loop and people came and went.
I think part of it is "the water they swam in" effect, meaning if that is how everyone does it and how it's always been done, you don't even think about it as it's just the water you swim in or the air you breath - you kinda take it for granted. |
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Post by NoShear on Jun 4, 2023 16:08:00 GMT
Some people went to the movies to hide out. LOL
John Dillinger, as depicted in the movie DILLINGER (1945), went to the Biograph movie theater in Chicago with his girlfriend, while dodging the law. But the cops caught up with him and killed him outside the theater after the movie finished. It happened on the night of July 22, 1934. They had been watching MGM's MANHATTAN MELODRAMA starring Clark Gable. TopBilled, your post prompted the thought of this notorious sneak-in:  |
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Post by sepiatone on Jun 4, 2023 16:31:28 GMT
In a scene from Clash by night a character at the movies said this is where we came in. Was it confusing to watch a movie in a different order and not from the beginning....
For context, the "loop around to where we came in" would include, not only the main picture, but also, possibly, a short, a newsreel and some cartoons. It was a full night of entertainment that just ran on a loop and people came and went.
I think part of it is "the water they swam in" effect, meaning if that is how everyone does it and how it's always been done, you don't even think about it as it's just the water you swim in or the air you breath - you kinda take it for granted. I've done that now and then too. Sometimes, if I liked a particular movie, When it was over I'd hide in the john or loiter in the lobby until the doors opened for the crowd coming to see the next showing, take a seat and see it again. That was back far enough to say I saw BOTH of them again.  And for NOSHEAR, who'll probably understand, I post ------------------------------ Sepiatone |
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Post by NoShear on Jun 4, 2023 16:43:30 GMT
My grandmother went to movies as a kid where you, just as you described, came in anywhere and then watched until the movie looped back to where you came in. It seems crazy to us as the whole "building a story" narrative would be undermined, but it simply was how people often did it back then.
For context, the "loop around to where we came in" would include, not only the main picture, but also, possibly, a short, a newsreel and some cartoons. It was a full night of entertainment that just ran on a loop and people came and went.
I think part of it is "the water they swam in" effect, meaning if that is how everyone does it and how it's always been done, you don't even think about it as it's just the water you swim in or the air you breath - you kinda take it for granted. I've done that now and then too. Sometimes, if I liked a particular movie, When it was over I'd hide in the john or loiter in the lobby until the doors opened for the crowd coming to see the next showing, take a seat and see it again. That was back far enough to say I saw BOTH of them again. And for NOSHEAR, who'll probably understand, I post ------------------------------ Sepiatone Can I dub this NoShear-ian cross-referencing, Sepiatone?? |
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Post by sepiatone on Jun 4, 2023 17:00:02 GMT
Sure. If it floats your boat.  Sepiatone |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jun 13, 2023 4:01:24 GMT
This is the beautiful theater I grew up going to, The Fox. Kids used to go to neck in the balcony.
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Post by sepiatone on Jun 13, 2023 16:06:54 GMT
Nice. There's a Fox theater in Downtown Detroit, but growing up in the suburb of Lincoln Park, MI it was too far to travel to just for a movie. It's been restored in the '80's and I've been there several times since. But growing up I saw most of the movies of my youth at the Park theater in Lincoln Park, MI  It went through several changes over the years. After it's use as a first run theater was over, they tried hosting concerts for local rock bands there, and that failing it , as sadly many movie houses did by the '70's, became a porno house. After that closed down it was saved and converted to rental lofts, maintaining it's familiar facade. .jpg) For a while the sections on each side of the front was a small drug store on the left, and a card shop on the right. By the '70's the drug store was gone and the space on the right was a "head shop". It was where I'd go to get my copy of "High Times" magazine. Sepiatone |
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Post by Fading Fast on Jun 13, 2023 16:29:53 GMT
Growing up, my movie-loving grandmother would take me to this theater in a nearby town. I loved going there as you could feel that it had been an important building even though it was rundown when I went with her in the '70s.
The exterior (since refurbished):
 
This is a pic of the restored interior:
When I first moved to NYC after college in the late '80s, my favorite theater (since closed) was the pretty famous Ziegfeld (which oddly wasn't old, as it opened in '69) which seated about 1100:
It was an absolutely great place to see a movie and it would alternate new movies and revivals.
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Post by gerald424 on Jun 17, 2023 2:36:10 GMT
This is back when movies ran in a loop all day and night. We never went to a movie at a particular time. We just went and caught the A movie half way through. Then watched the B movie,then watched the beginning of the A movie. If it was good we would stay till the end. Otherwise we would leave when it got to the point where we came in.
When I was a kid, I was jealous of people who would say they saw a film 30 or 40 times. They didn't pay 30 times. They just paid once and stayed all day. The theaters didn't mind because you bought candy, popcorn and soda all day and that's how they got their money.
If you ever see an adult movie theater portrayed in a film, notice when the star enters, there's always people already in there. Because with those films, no one cares about the plot. Just stick around to see what they want to see and leave. That was during those days.
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Post by sepiatone on Jun 18, 2023 15:04:48 GMT
It was sad enough that too many nice movie houses had to resort to pornography to stay afloat. But during the '70's I also noticed that since the '73-'74 oil embargo caused many gasoline filling stations to close, that many of them were converted to porno movie houses.
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