elgrabadura Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 hey whats up is anyone else here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgrabadura Posted February 22, 2006 Author Share Posted February 22, 2006 what are you opinions about why the younger generations generally have no intrest in classic movies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgrabadura Posted February 22, 2006 Author Share Posted February 22, 2006 granted i am only 18, and i saw some people younger than i one the boards which is really great! but i cant get my friends to watch these movies with me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Well, I can just guess... my opinion is something like why some younger people don?t care for antiques. They want modern cutting-edge electronic stuff, not old-fashioned mechanical stuff. They want shiny new plastic, not old wood. They like big-screen color TVs and wide-screen color movies, not old black and white movies. But that?s often the way it is with a lot of kids, especially during the past hundred or more years. I first learned about classic old movies from my father, starting in the late ?40s. He worked as a projectionist?s assistant in the late ?20s and early ?30s. He started telling me about ?King Kong? and other great films before I ever saw them. Then some of them came to local theaters as re-releases when I was a kid, and others turned up on the ?late show? on local TV stations in the 1950s. I saw ?King Kong? in a theater in a little town in Alabama in 1952. There was a guy in Chicago in the ?50s who collected and restored old silent films. His name was.... Gilliland or something like that. He rented his silent film series to local TV stations, and some of them had a narration track that explained some technical stuff about the films. That?s how I first saw ?The Great Train Robbery? around 1958 and ?Birth of a Nation.? In school we had some history lessons about the early 20th Century, the WW I era, the ?20s and prohibition, and the depression in the ?30s and WW II in the ?40s. Old films seemed like a natural way to learn more about the history of those decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgrabadura Posted February 22, 2006 Author Share Posted February 22, 2006 wow, that sounds so cool, somtimes i think that i was born in the wrong time period, i love all of the things you mentioned. that would be amazing just to live then i think. your dad had a really cool job. i first got into classic movies when i watched an old gamera movie when i was about 16 and have watched nothing but TCM since! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmabfd Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 You're right. They like the new. Why then, if fashion, music, etc...changes the name of something....all of a sudden....it's new, it's cool. Hip Hugger pants are now low risers, retro tops of the 70's is in, remix music...Elvis and more....is neat. So, is it really NEW? They just seem to think it is, they really don't know the history of something. If they really are interested, they'll look into it. Just like some of the new posts, from younger viewers. Unfortunatly, there's only a handful, in this large world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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