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Before HBO and VCRs?
Posted on 10/16/17 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 10/16/17 at 2:25 pm
If you missed a movie in the theater how did you get a chance to see it? Were older hit movies re-shown years later regularly in the theater or did you just miss it? I assume some made it to broadcast TV but I cant imagine many.
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Posted on 10/16/17 at 2:29 pm to ThuperThumpin
There used to be dollar theaters that showed slightly older movies. Outside of that, I guess you had to wait for TV.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 2:29 pm to ThuperThumpin
TV. Movie of the week.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:19 pm to ThuperThumpin
I remember early on they announced they were going to show Star Wars...and if you had a VCR, that tape was gold. Friends would beg to borrow it.
The TV version though was so long...it took about 3 hours...with a million commercials and interviews with the cast.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 3:33 pm to ThuperThumpin
In the 60's, you had NBC's Saturday night movie in prime time. ABC filled that gap with their Sunday night movies in the 70's and 80's (ABC made a killing on the James Bond franchise). The ABC "Movies of the Week" were made for TV movies, not theatrical releases.
Keep in mind, 2/3rds of local TV stations didn't have late night programming or morning programming provided by the networks. So local affiliates would show a film after their late news, or in the mornings after their children's programming. They also had a lot of time to fill on weekend afternoons.
WTBS and other "super stations" were a big deal in the 70's because they played a lot of classic and B movies, and didn't have to fill around network shows.
It was a huge deal when a big theatrical release would finally make it to TV. There were films that we never saw in the uncut format until HBO and VCRs.
Keep in mind, 2/3rds of local TV stations didn't have late night programming or morning programming provided by the networks. So local affiliates would show a film after their late news, or in the mornings after their children's programming. They also had a lot of time to fill on weekend afternoons.
WTBS and other "super stations" were a big deal in the 70's because they played a lot of classic and B movies, and didn't have to fill around network shows.
It was a huge deal when a big theatrical release would finally make it to TV. There were films that we never saw in the uncut format until HBO and VCRs.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 4:00 pm to ThuperThumpin
You actually had to -- a foreign concept for today's generation...
do without
do without
Posted on 10/16/17 at 5:01 pm to ThuperThumpin
Pay per view usually had it a few months before it came out on VHS
Posted on 10/16/17 at 8:02 pm to ThuperThumpin
I remember before we got a VCR, we had some type of small projector - 8mm? We would go to the library and rent reel to reel movies. I remember my favorites were Born Free and The Deep, staring Nick Nolte.
Posted on 10/16/17 at 8:04 pm to ThuperThumpin
I dont know if anyone has mentioned this factor but there were less movies. Each year we add to that total. Exponentially.
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