Film memories

[anotheoldgit]

It's all a little slow on the 'News' section today, so I thought I might pop-in, if you don't mind?

I have just been reading the post on film endings and it got me reminiscing.

How many can remember the latest film being delivered to your local cinema? These came in numerous large flattish and round aluminium cans, each one containing one reel of a multi reel film.

Now we can pop to the local supermarket and purchase, perhaps this very same film for a few pounds, for this we can own the film as our own for evermore.

Then once home we can sit in the comfort of our home, slip it into the DVD player, and watch all those memories come flooding back to life.

But then not quite the same as queuing in the rain, with your girlfriend on your arm, waiting to enter that luxurious Film Palace, but then that is another story.

[anotheoldgit]

Chapter 3

You can wait as long as you like, but my reminiscences are going no further than that kiss, and that is generally just as far as it did get.

[society]

Nice thread, Oldgit!

[tiggerblue10]

You go to the cinema now and you pay around £10 for a bucket of popcorn and a drink. You can buy a meal for two from M&S for that. And if you want a tub of Haagen Daaz (sp) you have to take out a mortgage! Lol

[anotheoldgit]

Well thank you society.

[DTCwordfan]

well one conclusion of this thread, AOG, is that if ever they need a talent pool for a British remake of Cinema Paradiso, they only need to look here.

[askyourgran]

The last film I saw at a cinema was Shirley Valentine I went with 4 girlfriends to see it, now I wouldn't be able to afford it, The cinema is some miles away now. whereas we used to have three cinemas within walking distance when we were younger. When we were kids we would go to the local 'bug hutch' which was quite clean and well run compared to some others. I remember the silver ball going over the words of 'By the light of the silvery Moon'.

[tastymorsel]

The first film I remember going to see was South Pacific.It was shown on a round screen and in 3D.A notice flashed up every now and again"put glasses on now"It was a sensation in its time but oh so boring now.I hate going to the filcks.

[anotheoldgit]

/// 'By the light of the silvery Moon'.///

Ah, those Doris Day movies

I think that if some entrepreneur was to buy up an ex bingo hall and turn it back to it's pre-bingo use, and then show only 'Film Classics', he would make a fortune.

A visit would be like taking a step back into the past.

Also perhaps on public parks, during the summer months, some councils would care to turn an area into a drive-in cinema?

No, now stop there, I am getting rather carried away not quite the same in a Mondeo as a 57 Chevy drop-head.

[Zeuhl]

I love Drive Ins but the british climate doesn't help.

The technology is better now - no need for all those speakers to clamp on your window - the modern drive-ins just broadcast the soundtrack on a designated fm frequency.

I think there are a few trad cinemas run as nostalgia trips. Not sure where though.
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