Reel To Reel
Nov. 19th, 2006 02:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotHey.
Just to brainstorm, I started to list all the movies I ever saw in actual movie theaters. My list was less than forty titles in all. First one was Return of the Pink Panther, last was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy more than a year ago.
Just to clue you younger mediaphiles in on the Dark Ages...cable TV, while available earlier, didn't "take off" till the end of the Seventies, and Home Video came along at about the same time. So back then, if you missed a movie at the movie house, you had to wait till one of three broadcast networks showed it (usually a year or so)--assuming they ever would. Home video players and content were expensive. The more rabid movie fans might splurge for a 16mm film projector and buy past prints of movies, but people like that were rare folks. Yes, people went out to the theater more often then.
The video systems we take for granted now would have been a wet dream for me back in 1976. My household now has more movies on DVD than I saw in theater...although some of them are movies I saw in theater.
Is this evolution begetting a media industry no longer oriented toward pleasing CROWDS and now focussed on pleasing INDIVIDUALS? I guess I need to ask a pro film critic that one.
FP
Just to brainstorm, I started to list all the movies I ever saw in actual movie theaters. My list was less than forty titles in all. First one was Return of the Pink Panther, last was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy more than a year ago.
Just to clue you younger mediaphiles in on the Dark Ages...cable TV, while available earlier, didn't "take off" till the end of the Seventies, and Home Video came along at about the same time. So back then, if you missed a movie at the movie house, you had to wait till one of three broadcast networks showed it (usually a year or so)--assuming they ever would. Home video players and content were expensive. The more rabid movie fans might splurge for a 16mm film projector and buy past prints of movies, but people like that were rare folks. Yes, people went out to the theater more often then.
The video systems we take for granted now would have been a wet dream for me back in 1976. My household now has more movies on DVD than I saw in theater...although some of them are movies I saw in theater.
Is this evolution begetting a media industry no longer oriented toward pleasing CROWDS and now focussed on pleasing INDIVIDUALS? I guess I need to ask a pro film critic that one.
FP
