On Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 4:44:06 PM UTC-5, Stephen Furley wrote:
I live in London, England. During the 1930s news theatres were opened in two of the main line railway stations here. A couple of days ago I discovered that Leeds station also had one. Did any American stations ever have such things?
One of the London ones lasted a surprisingly long time, finally closing in about 1980 after spending several years showing cartoons after the newsreels finished.
Grand Central Terminal had one. Good for people waiting for a
train. The theatre was designed with a big clock and wide aisles
to facilitate frequent egress.
Before television, there were a lot more movie theatres,
some of them small and specialized. I think there were
others that specialized in newsreels.
In those days, people went out to the movies a few nights
a week. The convenient neighborhood movie house was cheaper
and simpler than the downtown palaces, and often showed
older features or "B" movies and shorts. Once TV came along
the studios abandoned those types of films as demand dried
up. The talent that made those kinds of filmed often
ended up doing television, some notable TV actors were
once B movie stars.
The Movieplex cable channel (free on mine) has lots of old
Westerns. Lots and lots of them. All with basically
the same plot and format.
(I thought horses were expensive, but those old westerns
used lots of horses.)
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