It's CURTAINS for all of us!

[DickMcMahon 0]

What's happened to the art of "presentation" at the
movies?

Does anyone know of a theatre that still begins and
ends the main feature by opening & closing a curtain?

If it's because of automation, can't a curtain pull also
be automated?

[shropshire 0]

And now they've got rid of the organist at ours too... damn those talkies..... and Technicolour

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[wildcard451 0]

Yeah dude, we should def use curtains at movies because holy shit we might see.......A BLANK SCREEN.

A curtain is just a great way to blank screen a live performance.

Therefore curtain = not needed at movies.

And once again i have come to the rescue of another stupid post today.

[NWFlyer 2]

Yes, the Cinerama in Seattle still does it.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[skydiver30960 0]

sorry dude if there was a curtain then they couldn't bombard all the early-arrivers with those damn slide-show ads for crappy soft drinks and whatnot.

Of course that's before the thirty minutes of real commercials once the theater gets dark.

And those are before the forty five minutes of previews.

Remember when it used to be about actually seeing a movie? )sigh(....

[SpeedRacer 1]

There's a theater in Frederick, Maryland that still sometimes shows old silent films. And they have this guy that plays this old Wurlitzer organ that was installed in that theatre back in the 1920s. It even has sound effects (bells, train whistles, etc.) I go to see it every chance I get.

One of the great things about some old silent films is that conventions were still being worked out. Some of those films are pretty cool and experimental. And some films (I'm thinking, The Thief of Baghdad) had pretty cool special effects considering the primitive technology of that time.

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[Zep 0]

When they stopped the PATHE NEWS and cartoons before the main feature, thats when I stopped going

Gone fishing

[shropshire 0]

Did you know... they no longer play the National Anthem at the start of a film? (people wouldn't stand anymore, anyway)

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Squeak 17]

all the cinema that i have been to here still use curtains

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[DickMcMahon 0]

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And once again i have come to the rescue of another stupid post today.

"Stupid post"? I bet you don't like the twisted orange
slice on the side of your steak when it's served. Your
parachute probably doesn't have any color in it.
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[wildcard451 0]

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And once again i have come to the rescue of another stupid post today.

"Stupid post"? I bet you don't like the twisted orange
slice on the side of your steak when it's served. Your
parachute probably doesn't have any color in it.

Damn, ya got me.