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It’s watching movies like this which keeps us longing
for access to the classics. Many are so much better than
the garbage turned out today.

BTW, your mom has very good taste in movies.

Thanks for your reply.


29 posted on 08/27/2023 8:23:00 PM PDT by V K Lee (THE MORE YOU INDICT, THE MORE YOU EXCITE! MAGA)
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To: V K Lee

My Dad was a projectionist. He had two 16mm projectors and a huge movie screen that took up a whole wall of the living room. Sound was pumped through two Altec Lansing Voice of the Theater Speakers which were the size of DISHWASHERS. We had “Movie Club” every Friday night. All the neighbors would contribute to the cost of the 16mm print, Mom would make popcorn, and we would watch the Classics, long before the invention of VHS or Cable TV. Here are a few of our favorites:

Laurel and Hardy
All the Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald Flicks
Rebecca
The Russians are Coming
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
2001 A Space Odyssy
Balalaika
Phantom of the Opera (Nelson Eddy version)
Casablanca
The African Queen
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr. Zhivago
How The West Was Won
Gone With The Wind
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
To Have and Have Not

(There were a lot more.)

((((He was unable to obtain any Disney movies, because they were under strict control. But maybe that was for the best)))


31 posted on 08/28/2023 5:01:05 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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