Looney tunes - Bugs munching on a carrot, “What’s Up Doc!” “I tink I taw a puddy tat.” “I did, I did!”
Mr. Magoo driving a car and the way Elmer Fudd would talk. Does that bring your favourite movie theatre back? The Movietone News and the thrill as the curtain parted. That little window from the back where the projector shone as the lights, slowly, majestically dimmed, and the magic started. For a couple of hours, whatever daily tribulations occurred, instantly were gone thanks to the fantasy of that amazing silver screen.
With Betty Hutton or Jimmy Stewart as the troubled clown in the movie The Greatest Show on Earth and the emotions of life’s circus. Of course, never forget Charlie Chaplin’s famous theme song in Limelight. All that great entertainment served us with such an incredible purpose. Thinking back to those days, it might just lift a curtain or two. For us seniors, those old movie theatre days were real, ‘once upon a time’.
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