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| re: Sidebar: before VHS, we relied on revival houses. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:02 pm EST 12/26/22 | |
| In reply to: Sidebar: before VHS, we relied on revival houses. - Delvino 08:44 pm EST 12/26/22 | |
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| Ah, I said some of the same things in my reply above, before I saw your post. Right, I remember having to try to get home in time to see certain things, not just movies, back in the day. Fortunately for me, I grew up in NYC with its several revival houses, to which I was going from 12 or 13 or so. And sometimes not even revival houses. I think it was in 1971 that the Beekman, generally a first-run theatre, showed a summer festival of the last 10 years of New York Times 10-best films. First time I saw several films. |
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| re: Sidebar: before VHS, we relied on revival houses. | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 12:17 am EST 12/27/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 12:15 am EST 12/27/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Sidebar: before VHS, we relied on revival houses. - AlanScott 09:02 pm EST 12/26/22 | |
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| There were network evening showing of some big films during prime time, but as Alan said before, there were possibly lots of cuts. Hell, I even remember there was in NYC a 4:30 p.m. movie that, with commercials, showed "Singin' in the Rain" in a 90 minute time slot -- they practically cut out all of Debbie Reynolds' role! I couldn't really have figured out why it was considered such a classic (other than the title number) until I saw it on the big screen at a revival house. Also, in the late show and late late shows, for the most part, most old movies were from the MGM catalogue, so Judy Garland, Gene Kelly et al. were shown. I don't recall seeing much from Fox, other than Shirley Temple movies, so no real Betty Grable/Alice Faye things (other than Faye co-starring opposite Temple in one) and none of the great Technicolor films. Universal only showed the monster films and Abbott and Costello, but no Deanna Durbin, no Irene Dunne "Show Boat" or Donald O'Connor pre-MGM films, etc. It was really a lot more limited things from various other studios until TCM started on cable. One had to go to revival houses or maybe your college film society would show it, like mine had some rarities I was chomping at the bit to see. |
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