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To: smoothsailing

Exploitation film promoters used to stage costumed nurses in movie theater lobbies for “customers” who could not bear to watch what was on the movie screen (whether it be gory horror films or segregated male/female audiences watching Birth of a Baby movies).

A few promoters like Kroger Babb used to pipe noxious fumes into the theater and turn off the A/C so that patrons would be visibly affected.

Obama’s mass fainting spells are the stuff out of Jim Jones’s cult.


22 posted on 08/02/2012 1:32:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Eric Holder's NAACP rally against the voter ID laws required the press to bring govt issue photo ID.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Another master of this sort of thing was film producer and director William Castle...

Macabre (1958): A certificate for a $1,000 life insurance policy from Lloyd's of London was given to each customer in case they should die of fright during the film. Showings also had nurses stationed in the lobbies and hearses parked outside the theater.

Hearses parked outside!!! LOL!

Obama is a two-bit carny shill compared to the masters like Babb and Castle.

25 posted on 08/02/2012 10:47:41 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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