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Topic: How did trailers (the film kind) get their name?
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Mark Ogden
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 943
From: Little Falls, N.J.
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-20-2006 09:27 AM
It dates back from the thirties and forties. Typically, theatres would always show double features, an “A” and a “B” movie, instead of the single picture as today (with the “B” film, generally considered the lesser of the two pictures, shown first). The coming attractions were generally tacked onto the end of (they trailed) the first film. The first movie was itself usually preceded by a newsreel, cartoon or a dish-night style drawing or promotion, or, in New York and other large cities, a vaudeville act or two. This went out of vogue starting in the mid-to-late fifties/early sixties, as did the cartoon before the show.
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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays
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Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 04-20-2006 01:25 PM
The program ran in my area just as Monte describes, with the exception that we had triple features and just repeated the intermission (usually a 2nd clock trailer) after the 2nd feature.
Yes, always cartoons in the drive-ins when I started working them. Chakeres usually played Universal shorts, so that was Woody Woodpecker, Chilly Willy, Beary Family, et.al. Cartoon prints at that time were notorious for being in terrible shape. However, in the summer of '76, we got a run of Fox shorts -- which were the Terrytoons -- and they were absolutely beautiful Technicolor prints! For several weeks, we got these gorgeous new prints of Terrytoon's 1940s series: Gandy Goose, Little Roquefort, Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle. True to form, they weren't very entertaining, but they sure looked good!
Then, to finish out the season, we got standard crappy prints of Terry's later product: Deputy Dawg, Hector Heathcote, Silly Sidney...
Those were the days, though. I sure miss 'em.
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