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How spoiled are we to have them all in our collection to watch when we please. Easy to forget there was a time when they were only available via the Cinema or the lottery of T.V scheduling!!
Sigh. I remember clearly getting so excited about a Bond film being on tv.
Yep, I am now officially ancient.
So true...of course, films were much more special back then because of your limited access to them.
Popular films would play in theatres for almost a year (!) and then there was a long wait until you saw them on TV. It seems so ridiculous now but I well remember the trauma of not seeing a film in the theatre and then my chance to see it on TV was lost because the family was going somewhere. Sometimes you had to wait a couple of years to see a film that you wanted to see when I was a kid.
VCRs were such an incredible invention to me and people my age. But even in the beginning it was difficult to see a specific film, many rental shops didn't stock "older" films and the most popular ones were reserved sometimes for weeks at a time - because of the expense of buying films on videotape ($80 for the shop to buy, rented for $2) they would only have 3 copies of the most popular films! Now I can download off of iTunes instantly...
Really? Ha, speak for yourself, I am ageless and cannot be killed :P
We "ancient" original fans know this all too well. Feel free to join our original fans thread for great, in depth discussions from those who lived and remember those days like they were the other day!
"For a few $ more" cinema 1965 but not shown in Hong Kong cinemas until 1970 !