What was going to the cinema like before the age of digital shit?

Projectors not working, people smoking, reels snapping, seats not being cleaned for days, extremely bad audio playback etc.
The only better thing is that no one could be on his phone.

If you go to a film festival, sometimes they will show analog features, so you too can experience what it is like when a projectionist gives zero fucks.

>the mechanical projector flashed each frame three times
Nope.
t. projectionist

Everything is better when you set and enforce standards of conduct.

I have never seen that in any theater. Maybe it was a porn thing?

Picture was more organic-looking and magical, and the crowds were more considerate (no phones and nigger-jawing bullshit). But the sound was nowhere near as good as it is in the past 15 years.

It was probably his eyes. Btw the circle at the top right was every 15/20 minutes, the movies were cut into 6 or 7 reels.

Cigarette burns were way in the fucking past. in the '90s and early '00s they just put all the reels onto one huge patter so that reels didn't have to be changed on the fly like in the old days.

*platter

true kino experience

It has always been the same. The only way your experience varies depends on the demographic of that movie. Watching a movie with a bunch of black people around was as bad in the 90's as it is today.

But Vader was a black man

Yes I know but the whole movie was made of 6/7 (and sometimes more) reels taped together. Though in Cannes they used the old fashion until early 2000s, the projectionist worked with 2 projectors and had to start each one in synchronicity at the end of each reel.

>youtu.be/LaWnLvGWdzY

I am surprised this kino does not get more discussions here. It has lots of Yea Forums themes.

I remember loving trailers and Vodafone adverts

>loving trailers and Vodafone adverts
What a fucking retard.

When did it become normal for advertisements to run before the movie? I don't mean trailers, I mean coke ads that run even before those.

No niggers

This has been the norm forever.

youtube.com/watch?v=Mw91RJ_m_7g

that was from the fucking 50s

Extremely problematic due to the lac of POC and female strong protagonists and inherently white medium of film. But thankfully progressive producers and wonderful digital projectors have fixed that.

It was a wonderful time before this world was flooded with zoomers and millenials and soi bois

>"That honkey lyin" and everyone laughed
Based

>That honky lyin
Based

Unironically this.

That at least is advertising food at the theater. I meant advertising more generally. Car ads, TV show ads, credit card ads, things you'd normally see on television commercial breaks.

Reel projectors had a steampunk-like quality, the subtle shakiness of film vs static-still digital gave it that epic scope feel with zero digital arrifacting. The only annoying thing is if you sat close to the back you can actually hear those big-ass reels spinning above you.

People enjoyed going to movies more because leaked torrents or streams killed the fun, also spoilers weren't even a thing because no Internets. Movies were cheaper, so kids could watch them all the time, concession stand food was always a bit pricy though.

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About the same. Seats weren't as comfortable and the sound was lower quality, but still good.

It took longer to leave, because movies were a major thing to do before the internet, video games, everyone having cable tv, even everyone having a VCR to rent movies. I worked at a movie theater during high school ten years ago, and asked two of the guys who had been there for more than 20 years why the parking lot was so fucking massive with special theater-only exits onto the highway. One guy said that when he started in 1987, people would be lined up for 15-20 minutes trying to get out of the parking lot on a Friday or Saturday night after a summer blockbuster or a big teen movie, so a lot of kids would just hang out and drink beer or get into fights in the parking lot.

digital projectors were one of the best things to happen to the modern cinema. movies used to have an ugly flicker to them with random tiny black dots blinking on screen that took you out of the movie.
movies also had a weird moving blur to them and the colors were dim and washed out.

during my first digital movie viewing I couldn't stop noticing how vibrant blue looked whenever a blue object was on screen.

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>go to the cinema alone
>film pianist starts riffing on me for being alone at the movies
>audience howls with laughter
>pianst bullies me till the features starts
>I've already eaten all my popcorn and I'm too embarrassed to sit so I leave

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I operated a projection of Nosferatu in a church with the organ as piano. Best showing ever.

youtube.com/watch?v=WWvt3E5a-AA

JEWS TOOK MUH FUCKING GRAIN

No internet, no one click dealie back then. No instant gratification.

Finding something new in video games like secret levels or features and passing it around by word of mouth through friends.

Waiting for that one special show you looked forward to all week.

I look fondly on those memories but with a heavy coat of nostalgia. Digital Age is still better, actual truthful information if you're willing to sift through the clickbait.

Going to the cinemas these days is shit. Rude and loud people, always on their phones, feet on seats, just no respect for anyone around them. Better to just watch at home in comfort and without distractions.

>go to local Kinothèque
>realise today is top hat day
>butler is kind enough to lend me his toupee
>get my usual serving of lobster with absinthe
>movie's already started, better tip the stable boy and find a seat
>when I arrive to my table I realise there's a fucking train at the end of the room
>no one seems to mind though
>suddenly the train starts coming right at me at full speed
>knew I should've worn a top hat
>decide to run away screaming and call it a day
It was a different time

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2 in the US, one in the UK.

youtu.be/3WQrLuaMBMw
This seemed to vanish from UK cinemas with the arrival of DCP.

based Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat poster

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The films has better plots, the prices were reasonable, women were attractive and friendly, men were gentlemen, crime was rare, we had a community, the same people worked the same jobs and we got to know them.

The streets were cleaner, mothers would encourage kids to play outside, things happend on TV and everyone would talk about it face to face, none of this garbage social media.

You kids dont know whats been stolen from you

Probably 2002-4?

this

Any of you guys remember the snake pits? Every 3rd seat was a makeshift trapdoor and you would fall right through into a pit filled with poisonous snakes.

Lost half my childhood friends to the pits

Correct. I miss it.

Yeh but we appreciated the colours more back den