Movie theaters could be drop-in / cheap
By Hicbd
Wed Oct 20 2021 7:30 am
"Every interview with Orson Welles is worth reading, but I love his description in this one of how people went to see movies in the thirties: 'You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night. Like you’d go in to have a drink at a bar. Every movie theater was partially empty. We never asked what time the movie began. We used to go after we went to the theater. (Interviewer: You didn’t feel you had to see a movie from the start?) No. We’d leave when we’d realize, 'This is where we came in.' Everybody said that. I loved movies for that reason. They didn’t cost that much, so if you didn’t like one, it was, 'Let’s do something else. Go to another movie.'"
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