On 3 Jan 2007 03:53:28 -0800, "robfarr53@yahoo.com" <robfarr53@yahoo.com> wrote: | What I find interesting from looking at old movie theater ads is how | quickly even the best movies came and went. You had just 2-3 days to | catch your favorites and then they might be gone for years. People tended to go to movies more often back then. With admission prices of 25¢ for adults and 9¢ for ...

What I find interesting from looking at old movie theater ads is how quickly even the best movies came and went. You had ...> I'm surprised there's no Three Stooges shorts at all mentioned. This theater ran Stooges shorts on plenty of dates; just not on the same bill as Laurel & Hardy films. If you go through their site archives year-by-year, you'll see "3 Stooges short" listed in a ...

locoboymakesgood wrote: I'm surprised there's no Three Stooges shorts at all mentioned. This theater ran Stooges shorts on plenty of dates; just not on the same bill as Laurel & Hardy films. If you go through their site archives year-by-year, you'll see "3 Stooges short" listed in a few spots.

... "shorts" that were shown in addition to feature films. I didn't point out which ... a sign up in front of his theater of either Chaplin, Mickey Mouse or Laurel &... in, moreso than whatever the main feature was. As for Laurel & Hardy's bottom-bill status on many of their features, I hope no one got the wrong ..., in my opinion; moreso an observation on movie theater marketing and perceptions.

... times to say it's definitely the case. That's it! Curiosity got the better of me, so I checked them all. Most of the L&H films were actually "shorts" that were shown in addition to feature films. The one and a half departures from this both actually favor films with L&H: Hollywood Party is tied with its running mate at 70 minutes, but is listed first (June 16, 1934); The Flying Deuces is...

...| screenings. Some interesting pairings here. For features, if the | Laurel & Hardy film is mentioned...it was the top half | of a double bill. If it's mentioned second, ... and shown as matinees. This particular theater | was very fond of the boys -...and without Dean) and others in the classic comedy | pantheon, but I don't ... as much screen time at this | theater as Laurel & Hardy did. And how ...

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...'s a fun link - the Stanford theater in Palo Alto, California is now ... they showed year-by-year. For classic comedy fans, there are some interesting ... shown with an early Olsen & Johnson feature) and folks like Clark & McCullough, the...Ollie, of course (both shorts and features, into their 1940s output)! Interesting to ...as well (for example, the animated feature "Hoppity Goes to Town" playing a...

I'm surprised there's no Three Stooges shorts at all mentioned.

CORRECTION!!! I WROTE: Interesting to note the boys had slipped into bottom half billing during the later Roach years - I had thought that only started happening with the Roach films. I MEANT TO WRITE: Interesting to note the boys had slipped into bottom half billing during the later Roach years - I had thought that only started happening with the '40s films.