Why do people hate old movies?

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  1. Bilby

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    For those who don't know the film or novel , kids of a farmer discover a murderer on the run sleeping in a barn and mistake him for being Jesus Christ. Misapprehensions by kids is a normal part of growing up. Also, I understand how a young girl can be enchanted by a man in his twenties. What I did not understand is kids usually intuitively know when someone is bad. These kids did not.
     
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    You Only Live Twice (1967)

     
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    Goldfinger (1964)

     
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    From Russia With Love (1963)

     
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    On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

     
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    None of the 'James BBond' films are 'old' - they are contemporary.

    An oldie (but goodie) and seasonally relevant film is this:

     
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    I was born in a little railroad town in eastern Oklahoma close to the Arkansas state line. Do you know that so many Okies left the state during the dust bowl/depression years that it took until the 1960s before the population of Oklahoma got back to what it was in 1930.
     
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    I was 19 when that opened and I remember it well.
    Our theatre held a publicity stunt, driving a float all around the area with a model of the space wheel on the trailer.
    They forgot all about me and I was left on my own to show the film to 3,500 people over 2 performances. I was just the schoolboy helping out at the time. :)
    No wonder they called me the nutty professor, not to mention a few other names. :) :(:(:(
     
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    One of my favourites -1938 The Lady Vanishes
     
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    That is from the version I restored to it's original academy (1.37 : 1) aspect ratio in the late 1970s.
     
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    Great story @wilsjane I saw it when it came to the big screen in Florida. I was 15 years old, so we are not far apart in age Will!

    That was an amazing thing to run the projectors for that film, in a theater! WoW!

    In 1972 we were on holiday in Anguilla. My dad was the newspaper editor for the Virgin Islands Daily News back then, so we would travel through the islands and explore when we had time. On Anguilla there were a lot of British Army troops there settling things down after the 'revolution' from the newly formed country of St.Kitts/Nevis/Anguilla as the UK was dumping all its former colonies. The Anguillans did not care for the fascist dictator the Brits propped up as head of state, and had a revolution to become a British Colony again, and not be independent. Haa!( An excellent read about the story of Anguilla is Waugh's "Under an English Sun.")

    Long story short I was abducted by some drunken soldiers (my father got them too drunk...) and not only had to drive them in their Land Rover to a nearby churchyard, where I had to setup a projector and generator to show a Walt Disney film on the sidewall of the church that evening. It was the first film shown on Anguilla... "Fantasia" and the amazing reactions from the audience was priceless... literally hundreds crowding around trying to hear the soundtrack and see some of the image.
     
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    There are some big political differences, I wonder if that is part of it
     
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    Best Period is 60s.
     
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  33. wilsjane

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    Did you keep the reels in the right order. :):):) 2001 was about 8 reels, so as you can imagine it was always my worst nightmare. :(:(:(

    Would you have enjoyed the fun of running 35 and 70mm film, as you can see it is a lot more complex than most people could ever imagine.
    Until 1987, I was still using open carbon lamps and had to trim them every few minutes to maintain 3,200 degrees Kelvin colour temperature. The light went blue if they drifted.

     
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  35. Bilby

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    The early 1980s was golden era of cinema. Beside All That Jazz there was Apocolypse Now, The Blues Brothers, Heaven' s Gate, Breaker Morant, and Alien. Many more.
     
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  39. wilsjane

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    One of my memories of 1965.

    I still remember laughing at 3:06 on this trailer.

     
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