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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: May 31, 2012 10:03 AM
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: May 16, 2012 3:31 PM
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 6:01 PM
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Apr 9, 2012 12:38 PM
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Apr 5, 2012 11:46 PM
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A brief interuption of the 1936 ads. This is a monthly calendar for the Albany Theatre for April 1937. I was doing some spring cleaning and came across this collectible. I thought you might like to see it.
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 2:38 PM
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Mar 25, 2012 3:08 AM
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What I find truly amazing is looking at the schedule below and seeing how films play for only three days and they are gone, some less than that. For example, "Private Number," which was the first run for this June 1936 release was only booked for three days, a Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, not even Friday! When you think about the time spent in the studio putting such a film together, if you blinked it was gone. I guess this also shows how many films were being produced in 1936 (almost 600 films, according to Wikipedia).
Filmlover,
What was going on was that people went to the movies on weekday evenings as a habit; remember, there was no TV then. So with the high turnaround, a movie didn't play, and didn't need to play, on the weekend-people came out to see it after dinner, whatever the day of the week.
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Mar 20, 2012 5:47 PM
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What I find truly amazing is looking at the schedule below and seeing how films play for only three days and they are gone, some less than that. For example, "Private Number," which was the first run for this June 1936 release was only booked for three days, a Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, not even Friday! When you think about the time spent in the studio putting such a film together, if you blinked it was gone.
However, there was a definite pattern to releases then -- a few days in the downtown palaces, then soon a few more days' run in outlying neighborhood houses, and after that (if your community was large enough) second-run theaters. If you missed something the first time around, you would have another chance. albeit at a venue that wasn't quite as spiffy.
To get an idea of the process, check out this entry of mine, where I examined advertising for Carole Lombard movies in my hometown of Syracuse, N.Y., in 1930 and '31: http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/480529.html
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Mar 20, 2012 12:17 PM
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What I find truly amazing is looking at the schedule below and seeing how films play for only three days and they are gone, some less than that. For example, "Private Number," which was the first run for this June 1936 release was only booked for three days, a Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, not even Friday! When you think about the time spent in the studio putting such a film together, if you blinked it was gone. I guess this also shows how many films were being produced in 1936 (almost 600 films, according to Wikipedia).
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Mar 19, 2012 11:20 PM
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You are driving me nuts with these ads. I know where four of these theaters were located but as the addresses are only in one I'm making a trek to the downtown library to see if any local history books can enlighten me. I know a part of the demolished Maas Brothers store buildings was obviously a theater at some point so maybe I've found another one. Again, these are fun to look at and are putting my sometimes maligned city on the Board map. Thanks!
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Mar 19, 2012 5:49 PM
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Mar 15, 2012 10:21 PM
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 4:38 PM
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I believe both of these theaters are still around. The Tampa, a Spanish-Moorish version of Grumman’s Chinese and built during the silent era, holds concerts and offers classic films as they were originally shown. I think the Park is now the Falk Theater and part of The University of Tampa; it’s used for stage plays. Lafayette Street was renamed JFK Blvd. after the assassination as he rode down it between Tampa and St. Petersburg the Monday before it happened. It was great to see how movies were advertised around here back then and I’ll bet those free tickets were most welcome in Depression Era times. Thank you, filmlover, for this pleasant surprise.
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 2:41 PM
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Re: Filmlover's Travels Through Time With More Movie Ads
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 12:34 AM
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Wow! What awesome stuff! Tremendous thread. Priceless clippings.Mary Astor's hair was Dark Red? Thanks for posting all this. I wonder if THE LILY survives. I'm sure THE BOY FRIEND with Marceline Day is lost. That would be a good one to look for. After the blockbuster success of Harold Lloyd's THE FRESHMAN in 1925 everybody went to College to play football even Richard Dix in THE QUARTERBACK. Thank God that UCLA is finally restoring BEAU GESTE. Hope it will premiere on TCM next year.
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