kids & drive-in movies
otis at the "one night stand" drive-in movie event (friday, june 9th, 2006), hosted by irrelephant productions at the old santa barbara drive-in, goleta, california.
i realized, hanging with djmark & lirpa & the kids in their minivan, that one of the things that largely killed the drive-in theaters here in the states was home video. i mean, having kids around is going to make watching some films pretty difficult regardless of where you end up watching it. parents obviously like playing projectionist, with home video, in lieu of having to hope that the chilluns fall asleep at a reasonable hour.
as amazing as paisley & otis are, they just weren't cooperating with the "asleep in the back by bedtime" part of the equation, which made watching american graffiti again next to impossible (that & a bunch of other technical problems, like the irrelephant doods showing the movies with a video projector, which was unfortunate given the neglected condition of the screen & the image washout caused by a steady stream of car lights leaving the feature before it was over).
i personally have some amazing childhood memories of watching drive-in movies i wasn't supposed to be awake for, though. my earliest cinematic memory may in fact be watching the spectacle of rock hudson & an all-star cast (ernest borgnine!) in the submarine thriller, ice station zebra: they were trapped under polar ice, man!!!! brrrrrr!!!! (if it was a first-run screening, that would have made me all of 2 years old! ahaha!) forever warped by that experience! ; P
i also remember pestering my folks with questions during a screening of mike nichols' catch-22. during one particularly gruesome battle scene, in fact, i recall asking something like, "is that [on-screen blood] really catsup, mama?"
damn: i should rent that movie soon!
i realized, hanging with djmark & lirpa & the kids in their minivan, that one of the things that largely killed the drive-in theaters here in the states was home video. i mean, having kids around is going to make watching some films pretty difficult regardless of where you end up watching it. parents obviously like playing projectionist, with home video, in lieu of having to hope that the chilluns fall asleep at a reasonable hour.
as amazing as paisley & otis are, they just weren't cooperating with the "asleep in the back by bedtime" part of the equation, which made watching american graffiti again next to impossible (that & a bunch of other technical problems, like the irrelephant doods showing the movies with a video projector, which was unfortunate given the neglected condition of the screen & the image washout caused by a steady stream of car lights leaving the feature before it was over).
i personally have some amazing childhood memories of watching drive-in movies i wasn't supposed to be awake for, though. my earliest cinematic memory may in fact be watching the spectacle of rock hudson & an all-star cast (ernest borgnine!) in the submarine thriller, ice station zebra: they were trapped under polar ice, man!!!! brrrrrr!!!! (if it was a first-run screening, that would have made me all of 2 years old! ahaha!) forever warped by that experience! ; P
i also remember pestering my folks with questions during a screening of mike nichols' catch-22. during one particularly gruesome battle scene, in fact, i recall asking something like, "is that [on-screen blood] really catsup, mama?"
damn: i should rent that movie soon!
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Back in the day Denver had a great drive-in out in the boonies called the 88. They would show horror and slasher movies all summer. To me those are the best kind of drive-in movies. It may still be there, I don't know. It was down the road a piece from the topless donut shop, which also may or may not be there.
One of my favorite memories is of going to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre on a double-date at the drive-in. One of the guys went to the snack bar and when he came back he waited until a really scary part and then jumped on the hood of the car. I screamed and screamed.
thanks for sharing those stories! how fun!
btw... horror movies, fer sher! b-movies were made for drive-in consumption! i vaguely recall there being a porno drive-in theater back when i was in high school mebbe, between sacramento & san francisco! can you imagine what all went on there?!?
yeah. they didn't want johnny lawman messin' with 'em (although i'm sure vice squads were crawling all over that place)!
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