What was movies like before home video? Like all these movies existed but you only had theaters? How did that all work?

idk man, im old but im not that fuckin old

they broadcasted movies on tv since the 50s
t. boomer

Define unseen. You're gonna need to elaborate your post for me.

i grew up in the country and like most things vhs was late to arrive to us. also my parents were strangely cheap, never rented a movie when someone finally started to rent bootlegs, i was like 10 years old. it was a strange times: if i saw something interesting or peculilar on tv ... i had to soak it in now and then because i would never see it again and the chances of knowing someone who saw it too and had more information than me were slim. now it seems most of the culture of humanity is avalable online if you bother to search for it; 15 years ago i would have thought it would have a bigger impact on youth of today but nope they are pigshit uncurious about culture and intellectual matters , the highest and best our world has to offer... i am puzzled but getting over it.

Idk man I watch trailers on youtube today that look better than when I see it at a theater. Been to 2 different ones around here lately they both look bad.

Even earlier than that. First trans-atlantic broadcast was in 20's. 30's developed it further, 25-26 saw the first wireless video transmission patent.

Like you only had so much broadcast space and shit right. So a lot of stuff pre VHS and rental just isn't gonna be shown

Yes most movies were impossible to rewatch before 1975 when Betamax became a thing unless you got lucky and a tv station or local theatre was playing an old movie.

>ywn experience Kino at The Roxy Theatre as God intended

Attached: Roxy_1927_1.jpg (447x554, 179K)

Also how did broadcasting movies that were on an actual film reel work in the early days?

i could see the pixels at one that was meant to be imax

what a sham

>Also how did broadcasting movies that were on an actual film reel work in the early days?
A network affiliate that owned the film reel would broadcast it to other network affiliates, who would receive the broadcast and re-broadcast it to their local audiences. Same as how they do it today.

When I was 11-12 and first exploring the internet I thought that it was going to make the world a better place, make people smarter, like it would be a modern day library of alexandria that couldn't be destroyed. A place where every story and every fact could be viewed by anyone.

Now I'm 26 and I see my 7 year old nephew walking around with his cellphone watching "reaction" videos on youtune where 75% of the video is "make sure to hit that like and subscribe button" and 0% of it had any intellectual value.

Now I just hope it all burns to the ground and we get plunged back into a dark age.

Yeah, but the vast majority of movies in those times were short as fuck, shorts. There were really very few proper movies and documentaries and they all got showings. They had enough space to show theater plays, and that's mostly what they showed, recordings of theater plays.
Movies as you know them really developed when bandwidth was already developed to fit far more than was available.

I wanna say it looks blurry. Like I saw Alita and the trailers looked much cleaner. It's almost like a 3D film without the glasses on sometimes. I don't remember movies being this bad in theaters. Been a few years and recently I've been going more.

It took like 6-9 months for any movie to come out on VHS in my country and by the time you got the VHS, you forgot what it looked like on the big screen. Most people didn't care much about quality. Most people could not afford expensive setups.

Yeah but what hardware would they use to broadcast an analog format like a film reel?

Sometimes they showed them on TV

this was true in america, too. vhs release would take the better part of a year so the theaters could get their cut. They didn't have to worry about bootleggers as much back then because it was hard to sneak in a a clunky ass recorder that weighed 30 lbs

Reminder that airplanes played movies on projectors in the 70's on LONG Flights!!

>What was movies like before home video? Like all these movies existed but you only had theaters? How did that all work?

old man here, last movie I rented on Beta Max was Return of the Living Dead - picture looked great, better than cable and VHS.

We had access to cable in 1981, first house on the street to get the wire from cable connected to our house via the telephone poles.

There were a lot more independent theatres, and not just "art houses". Local colleges and musuems had projector set ups and would show whatever they wanted when they got their hands on a reel.

Drive ins were still a thing and would show triple to quadruple features, it wasn't uncommon for them to start out with cartoons for the kids, then end with The Hills Have Eyes or something gross as the last feature.

If you had more money, you owned your own projector and there were groups you could get with in your region to rent reels for a limited time, you couldn't just get what you wanted whenever you wanted. I remember there was a year wait for Gremlins, this was when VCRs were still $400 - which is equivalent to nearly $1000 today.

Like everything back then, it was more social. If you wanted to see a movie you had to get together with your friends and someone had to hit that box office when tickets went on sale. Some had first come first served, some you could buy ahead of time by hours or days, usually for a $2 fee.

Movie theatre culture was completely different, working at one wasn't a wage slave job and projector operators were top dog under the owner/manager. It's still strange that no one sits up there anymore, visiting one for the first time was like visiting a cockpit in an airplane - mindblowing.

Well, that's it faggot, next time put more effort into your post and thread.

Attached: Royal_The_Black_Hole_Old_B_O_B____V_I_N_CENT__Movie_Poster.jpg (1225x1677, 2.96M)

Thanks

Attached: 1536530348337.gif (429x592, 2.4M)

That's very impressive miniature work. Sauce?