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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 06:53 PM
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When did the "previews" at the movies become "trailers"?
And why? What do you call them? I call them "previews". Know what I mean?
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 06:55 PM
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1. When they invented the teaser, I think
then needed a way to talk about them, and so needed different words.
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 06:56 PM
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2. for decades now, dude
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RiffRandell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 07:18 PM
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7. LOL!
I was gonna be like, where have you been? and I never go to the movies---like 2 times a year.
Watxh lots on pay per view and cab.
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 08:43 PM
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12. I've been under a rock (TV-less from 1988 to 2004). Great years, those!
And I have fewer decades left than I have, so far, squandered. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 06:56 PM
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3. in the industry they were always known as trailers
because they trailed after the first feature film in a double bill.

http://www.movietrailertrash.com/views/history.html

"The first trailer was shown in 1912 at Rye Beach, New York, which was an amusement zone like Coney Island," Paramount trailer division head Lou Harris told the Los Angeles Times in 1966.2 "One of the concessions hung up a white sheet and showed the serial The Adventures of Kathlyn. At the end of the reel Kathlyn was thrown in the lion's den. After this 'trailed' a piece of film asking Does she escape the lion's pit? See next week's thrilling chapter!"
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 08:32 PM
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10. Double bill? Pay twice? Or a Two-fer?
We called those DOUBLE-FEATURES. As in: "Let's pack the kids in the back of the '55 Chevy, pick up a six-pack, and catch the double-feature horror show at the Auburn-Opelika Drive-In!

And the greatest thing about many drive-in movies (other than the potential for pure, raw, sex)? The managers lived in the base of the big screen. How cool was that, I ask?
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 06:57 PM
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4. I call them...
..."depressing foretastes of just how pitifully bad most movies are these days." If they can't even cobble-together enough interesting footage to make a 60 second pitch without putting half the audience to sleep, the rest of the movie must be dire indeed.
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Mike03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 07:04 PM
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5. Hmmmmmm. Interesting question.
I am trying to think if I ever called them "previews." I have this feeling that I even called them Trailers before I went to film school, which would have been in the early 80s, but what I can't remember is where I learned to call them "Trailers" instead of previews. Maybe from reading "Variety", which my dad would bring me home once a week. I also remember ordering "trailers" on Super 8mm celluloid (in the days before video) for movies like Jaws and Alien. It was a big deal back then to order "Trailers" for movies like that. That would have been like around 1980 or so.
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 07:10 PM
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6. I've always known them as trailers even thought they are now shown....
Edited on Tue Oct-03-06 07:11 PM by BrotherBuzz
before the the film, but when in the hell did they start stringing tons them together to run longer then the feature? You know what I mean, Vern?
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 08:48 PM
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14. I know what you mean Buzz.
BTW: I am very happy when you, too, honor the late, great Jim Varney. JV is my heavy-duty, ubiquitous smiley emoticon. And since got it from a non-copyright source, any one else is free to use it. Know what I mean?
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 09:36 PM
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20. It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission - Grace Hopper


I've been using your photobucket image of Varney for a long time, thanks for the permission. :thumbsup:
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 09:59 PM
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21. Permission and forgiveness given, my son.
Just say a "Hail Grace, Full of Mary" or two .. in Grace Hopper's honor.

Mac
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 07:28 PM
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8. "The following PREVIEW has been rated for all audiences...."
"Trailer" just makes people feel like they're in the industry. :D
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 08:54 PM
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17. Which we are, thankfully in my case, not.
Campy.
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 07:30 PM
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9. remember when cartoons were always shown before the movie?
that was long ago. at least I'm not so old as to remember the news reels that were shown in theaters. In the 40's they were mostly jingoistic propaganda films.
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 08:40 PM
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11. I remember the war news-reels of the early 1950s.
French Indo-China, Korea, Dien Bien Phu, Viet Nam. I could never differentiate, at that age, between Korea and Germany. And I remember the cartoons of mice in tanks, charging to the accompaniment of great classical music, with no dialog (tell me the 40s-50s cartoonist weren't into some heavy weed!). Those same old movie-house cartoons were among the first to show up on Saturday morning kiddie TV in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 08:45 PM
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13. I still call 'em previews.
And nothin'll make me change!

:cry:



:P
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 08:52 PM
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16. I love it when someone hangs with me.
Trailers are for trucks and tornadoes. Previews are for .. well, hmmm .. OK, for us-uns.
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pelza12 Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 08:50 PM
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15. When God left.
When He comes back we'll have previews again. WHOOHOO!!! :puffpiece: :beer:
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MassLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 08:55 PM
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18. Yes, I know what you mean
I still call them previews, too (and I'm disappointed when they don't show them!).
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 09:01 PM
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19. I didn't hear them called trailers until Star Wars:Episode I
When a college aquaintance was talking about the Star Wars "trailer". Despite having a variety of experiences which most children don't have, I was relatively sheltered in other ways.
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