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Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace

  • 2019
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
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Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace (2019)
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The evolution of the movie business over the past century, from penny arcades and nickelodeons, to the grand movie palaces built by the studios, and what happened over the years as they were... Read allThe evolution of the movie business over the past century, from penny arcades and nickelodeons, to the grand movie palaces built by the studios, and what happened over the years as they were challenged by television and cell-phone cinema.The evolution of the movie business over the past century, from penny arcades and nickelodeons, to the grand movie palaces built by the studios, and what happened over the years as they were challenged by television and cell-phone cinema.

  • Director
    • April Wright
  • Writer
    • April Wright
  • Stars
    • Richard L. Fosbrink
    • Bob Boin
    • Jerald Gray
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    308
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    • Director
      • April Wright
    • Writer
      • April Wright
    • Stars
      • Richard L. Fosbrink
      • Bob Boin
      • Jerald Gray
    • 10User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins

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    Richard L. Fosbrink
    Richard L. Fosbrink
    • Self
    Bob Boin
    • Self -- Theater Restoration Volunteer
    Jerald Gray
    • Self -- Avalon New Regal Theater Chicago
    Matt Lambros
    • Self
    Leonard Maltin
    Leonard Maltin
    • Self
    Ross Melnick
    • Self
    Craig Morrison
    • Self
    Escott O. Norton
    • Self
    Rosemary Novellino-Mearns
    • Self
    David Strohmaier
    • Self
    Barbara Twist
    • Self
    Charles Chaplin
    Charles Chaplin
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Jack Cushing
    Jack Cushing
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Douglas Fairbanks
    Douglas Fairbanks
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Clark Gable
    Clark Gable
    • Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Cary Grant
    Cary Grant
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    D.W. Griffith
    D.W. Griffith
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Joseph Henabery
    Joseph Henabery
    • Abraham Lincoln in The Birth of a Nation
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • April Wright
    • Writer
      • April Wright
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    • Trivia
      The narrative takes an unexplained leap from the depression years of the early 1930s to the post-WWII era of the consent decree and the arrival of television thus completely omitting and ignoring the games and giveaways which helped theatres survive from the mid-1930s to the early-1940s, and the huge increase in patronage during the WWII years, when downtown theatres ran 18 hours a day, and movie attendance peaked at an all time record of close to 100 million tickets per week.
    • Goofs
      While David Strohmaier and assorted guests are discussing Cinerama and the various wide screen processes which brought customers back to the theatres in the 1950s, we are shown a shot of a revival of Frankenstein and Dracula at the DeMille Theatre from a much earlier era and a shot of the Roosevelt showing Too Hot to Handle, as part of the widely publicized 1938 $250,000 Movie Quiz Contest of two decades earlier; while Strohmaier is telling us how Cinerama opened in 1952, we are shown a shot of the San Francisco Orpheum in 1962, offering How the West Was Won, not the first, but the last of the 3-projector Cinerama films which was released ten years later in 1962.
    • Quotes

      Leonard Maltin: I salute anybody and everybody who has a hand in saving these great theaters - and finding a way to keep them alive. It's not enough to save them. You have to keep them going somehow. You have to find a way to breath life into them. But, it's worth the effort. It's really worth the effort. Because, once you tear it down, you can't rebuild it. Once it's gone, it's gone.

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    7/10

    Enjoyable but not definitive

    Certain decades are explored regarding the evolution of the movie palace in general, but there are several decades completely omitted. Most notably, the '30s and '40s when they thrived. I think this documentary would have been elevated if it not only focused on the genesis and decline of the movie palace but also on its heyday.

    Other than that, I found it an interesting watch; and of course, seeing the amazing architecture in both original and decaying forms is a real testament to the magnificence of the movie palace as a whole, as an experience and not just a place. Although I enjoyed the interviews, it would have been nice to have heard from more than just a handful; but that's nitpicking.

    I was left feeling terribly sad not just because of the unfortunate decline of the movie palace, but because it's a depressing reminder that we are more and more becoming a society of autonomous and anonymous individuals rather than a collective of our own race. Recommended for those who love movies and the nostalgia surrounding them.
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    • Feb 16, 2022
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    • Release date
      • October 10, 2019 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Australia
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Going Attractions
    • Filming locations
      • Radio City Music Hall - 1260 6th Avenue, Rockefeller Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(one of the movie palaces shown)
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $6,763
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $803
      • Oct 27, 2019
    • Gross worldwide
      • $6,763
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      1 hour 24 minutes
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