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posted by: mblog (reply) post date: 05.21.04 (11:28 am) When I was growing up, that was pretty normal. No, we didn't start DVDs in the middle. But we showed up at the movie theater (that's what we call cinemas) any time we wanted. The theater would typically show a cartoon, a short feature, two full length movies, and whatever coming attractions there were. There was no slide show between movies, and no point where the lights came on for 30 minutes for people to sit down. There was a curtain that closed over the screen at the end of the show, but it opened up almost immediately. It was a relic from stage days. Back then, there were ushers with flashlights who helped people find seats in the dark theater. They also made sure other patrons were being quiet. Typically, one would arrive in the middle of a movie, and watch it, the next one , etc. until one got through the beginning of the one that was playing when one first came in. Nobody thought it was strange at all, and it always worked out ok. We had expressions such as "this is where I came in" that are still in use today. Eventually, theaters split into multiplexes and showed a single show in each. They published the show time, and audiences who came in late learned the hard way that if they want to see the beginning, they would have to sit through 30 minutes of nothing. They learned to come at the start of the show instead. So the movie probably worked out just fine for you starting in the middle. For generations past, that was a perfectly normal way to see a movie. posted by: ReBorn (reply) post date: 05.21.04 (4:33 pm) lol... I can see how frustrating this can be! its like getting a book from the library with some degree of excitment and suddenly notice on the first page someone wrote "Butler did it" lolll posted by: Andaloo (reply) post date: 05.22.04 (12:02 am) Reply to: ReBorn Not sure I should even admit this, but I didn't know there were such things as double sided DVD's. |
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