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TRIVIA PLUS: The following comes under the general heading of Extremely Trivial Information, but I offer it in hopes that somebody out there, like me, appreciates social footnotes as much as historical headlines, Last week, Captain George got in a load of Life magazines (a complete run from 1936 to 1952) along with a number of art and photography publications from the 1930s and 40s. Now, here's where we really start getting obscure:
In the August, 1937, issue of Popular Photography (with swimming star Eleanor Holm on the cover) there's a short item about taking your handydandy camera off to the local neighborhood theatre and snapping pictures of the images projected on the screen, In fact, the item reported, theatres in New York, Detroit and "dozens of other cities" were even conducting Candid Camera Nites when “amateurs can bring their cameras along and shoot away at the silver screen to their heart's content. Theatre managers are hoping these candid nights may be the successor to bank nights, which the courts have outlawed in many states, and have already begun to give worthwhile prizes for the best photographs, They are usually held on Monday nights, when movie attendance is ordinarily rather light..."
Hmmm...interesting, I thought, and filed the information away in my grabbag mind. A few days later, Captain George hands me the December, 1938, issue of Life containing an article on director Edmund Goulding's remake of The Dawn Patrol, the WWI adventure with Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone and David Niven. it is profusely illustrated with photos from the movie, including what looks like a frame enlargement of the title credit. Great stills, I thought, until I discovered that, according to the text, the photos by Life photographer Peter Stackpole were shot directly from the screen at a Hollywood preview.
So, whatever happened to the practice of snapping pictures of your favorite stars at the neighborhood theatre? Whatever happened to the neighborhood theatre?
Incidentally, the more I look through the Lifes that Captain George has-he's selling them for $1-$5 a copy-the greater is my admiration for the people who produced that magazine week after week, especially in the 1940s. The magazines are a wealth of close-up historical and social information. The closest thing we have to it today is People magazine and it is only a faint echo. a
STOP THE PRESS!! LATE YELLOW JOURNAL FLASHES!! Marty Herzog reports: (1) Marvel and National are working together to put out a SUPERMAN-SPIDERMAN teamup magazine selling for $2. It will be the large-size format and be 100 pages plus, Written by Jerry Conway. Art by Ross Andru. Out late summer or fall, (2) JACK KIRBY RETURNED TO MARVEL AS OF APRIL ist. If Stan Lee keeps the promise he made at Cosmicon the Silver Surfer might be back in his own magazine.