Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1961)

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A Few Questions Pardon me for asking, but — Remember the outdoor theatres they used to have right in the middle of the big cities, often on the roof of the regular playhouse? Remember when an usher with a flashlight showed you down the aisle of your neighborhood movie? Remember two-reel comedies? What ever happened to bank night and the free dishes? Remember when Fabian was most famous as the name of a theatre circuit and Avalon was the title of a song? When was the last time you heard someone out front giving a spiel about the picture playing inside the theatre? Who is working on 3-D without glasses? What happened to the plans for consolidating film distribution into single exchange buildings around the country? Has anybody heard of a hotel being torn down to make way for a motion picture theatre? 0 How's the telephone company doing with its plans for sightand-sound telephones, and what will telephone television do to the subscription TV companies when it finally arrives? What are theatres doing in the theatre TV field these days between heavyweight prizefights? How come there is no provision for a motion picture facility at the Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts in New York? Is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer still playing around with the idea of going into the home movie business? Has anybody stopped to figure out how much MGM has made from leasing "The Wizard of Oz" to the CBS Television Network? Those annual Christmastime broadcasts seem to be big time every year? Has anybody heard how U.S. pictures are doing in that much heralded cultural exchange with Russia? Has that fashion designer satisfactorily explained selling the same dress to Elizabeth Taylor and Gina Lollobrigida? Whatever happened to the old fashioned movie starlets? What's going to happen to Saturday night movie business when NBC starts that big series of recent 20th Century-Fox Films on coast-to-coast television this fall? If the Phonevision people are having trouble getting product for their Hartford feevee experiment, where is Telemeter going to get the product for the Little Rock venture? How many years is it now that the Paramount annual meeting has heard that mass production of the company's cheap Lawrence color television set was right around the corner? 0 When was the last time you saw "Gone with the Wind?" How many colleges give courses in motion pictures and what happens to all the students? Has anybody lately tried to get the Ajrny to release what many people consider John Huston's finest film — his wartime documentary about the treatment of armed forces mental cases? If "Francis of Assisi" makes it big, will the movies' new theme song be "When the Saints Come Marching In"? Whatever happened to the various devices for projecting color movies from black and white prints? Is there still a James Dean fan club? Do movie fan books have a future? What will be the next food fad to hit the drive-in refreshment counters? Whatever happened to that idea of the drive-in theatre with individual car screens? Is anybody designing an entertainment theatre for Walt Disney's 360-degree projection system? Will there ever be another film comedy team like Laurel and Hardy, or Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, and when? How about some word from the field about what individual theatre people are doing to make use of their facilities in midweek time or matinees when picture business is slow? Wouldn't it be a good idea for COMPO to do for the movies what the Television Information Offices does for TV, as a sort of office of facts and figures which can provide good institutional publicity for the medium? How about beating the drums a little more for the Golden Age Clubs? Now that they are talking about lowering retirement ages for social security, how about the age limits for the Golden Age Clubs at the movies? Now that science fiction has taken us to the bowels of the earth, under the sea and, of course, way out into outer space, what's left? Was there ever a more contrast)' double bill than "Psycho" and "Where the Boys Are"? 0 Is Eric Johnston thinking of retiring from the Motion Picture Association when he reaches 65 at the end of the year? Is it true that they are calling "Cleopatra" a suspense picture because nobody knows how it will end — after it gets started again? How about a movie on the life of Louella Parsons? Will William Holden ever make another movie in Hollywood ? Will Telemeter ever release the figures on its Etobicoke pay television experiment? Have the newspapers which censor movie ads checked the copy in their advice to the lovelorn columns lately? Why do so many theatre managers neglect to have the curtain drawn between features, and run one film right into the other? Why does the tallest guy in the group always have to be the one who decides to sit in front of my little boy when a party of people moves into the row ahead of us? Why do women always rush into the theatre before giving their escorts time to put the change from the ticket purchase back in their pockets? Are they building any more theatres with balconies? Why do they use white subtitles on some foreign language pictures in scenes where the background is light? Why don't theatres give family discounts for midweek nights the way airlines do for midweek flights? Page 8 Film BULLETIN August 7. 1961