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New Space Stuff On Disney+
If you’re a Disney+ subscriber the Disneyland TV show episodes “Man in Space” and “Mars and Beyond“ are FINALLY available! They announced these as April releases but for some unexplained reason they didn’t drop until today. Both are great fun - Willy Ley and Werner Von Braun are featured on-screen explaining things and the animated launch and space sequences are nicely done. Some of the other segments, well, they’re sort of typical mid-century Disney - corny and a bit over-simplified - but I guess you have to consider the times. Now why the first and third episodes are there but the second - “Man and the Moon” - isn’t is odd, not sure why it wouldn’t be available as well.
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D+ is ok if you’re a Disney/Star Wars/Marvel fan or have children who are Disney fans - like my twin granddaughters - or just really dig the nostalgia of watching some of the oddball Disney live action movies from 50s/60s (Go Medfield College - beat Midvale!). We did the multiple years for cheap intro offer but I don’t know if I’d pay much more than that for it. Though if they keep adding original SW content as good as The Mandalorian I’ll probably keep it - Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni should be THE ONLY people in charge of Star Wars EVER! I probably saw the original Star Wars movie over a dozen times when it came out, next to the best episodes of Clone Wars and all of The Mandalorian, Star Wars, 1977 is (IMO) the best thing George Lucas has ever done. |
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One of the MOST memorable viewings was at the long since torn down Skyview Drive-In with a carload of girls who didn’t get invited to prom Which, in early June 1977, was called just “Star Wars” - no episode number or subtitle. |
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I was 11 when Star Wars came out, and was fortunate to be visiting my Uncle in Chicago. He said “Everyone is talking about it, why don’t we go see it”. We went to a downtown theater and saw it on a massive screen I think only seen in IMAX theaters now, before theaters like that were subdivided into many smaller screens. It was incredible, and I saw it two more times over that summer. No one now can understand the impact it had on audiences going in cold. I can’t remember a more raucous crowd, cheering and hollering when Death Star exploded as if we were all on Yavin. |
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My wife and I moved to San Francisco area in May 1977 after taking a job with Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto. We started seeing commercials for this new movie called Star Wars. Looked like it might be fun.
When it opened, the crowds were so massive we did not get in. We finally got in to see it on the 3rd day. (After the hordes camping out to get in finally calmed a bit, and the fact we left the house very early that day.) Like most, we were blown away by the experience.
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+1 to the Drive-In for a movie experience. Back in the day ours was the Westgate Drive-In or the Do Drive-In and I actually found pictures online of these. Too bad everyone can’t experience a movie that way at least once! https://i.pinimg.com/originals/05/e...a74a716c856.jpg http://photos.cinematreasures.org/p....jpg?1400820827
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Same here. My older sister worked at 20th century Fox in Boston and started bringing me promotional pamphlets and posters that were being sent out to Industry people and press for something called 'Star Wars' that looked unlike anything I'd ever seen. My brother and I went to the Boston premier showing, ended up sitting about 10 rows back from the screen dead center. When the first ship came into view from the top of the screen, the crowd collectively said "Whoa". When the Star destroyer came over the crowd stood up and cheered - absolute chaos. Never had an experience like that at a movie before or since. That Christmas, Lucas sent employees R2D2 Cookie Jars, which ended up on my bookcase.
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For those who didn’t record their first Star Wars movie memories in this prior thread, feel free to add them, especially if the theatre where you saw it is still open.
Thread link: https://www.oldrocketforum.com/show...atre#post177074 Earl
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