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Someone uses a rotary phone.

Someone uses a pay phone.

Leslie Nielson is playing  a serious role.  :bouncegiggle:

A good guy is smoking.

Someone's flying pan am.

In my case, watching old movies is part of my daily routine.  :smile:

Everyone is smoking. :wink:

People research with microfilm/fliche.

Computers only display text.

Computers are nothing but a reel-to-reel tape drive & a wall of lights.

I was watching Good Luck And Good Night the other day and yes, the smokers were even smoking between smokes.  :wink:

Stores have clerks who help you find the right product.

There's a robot who looks like the tin man.

No one cusses, or they use euphemisms like "To the devil with you!"

Soooo, you know you're watching an old movie when you're awake? :wink:

Someone's carrying a ghetto blaster.  (Kids, ask your parents.)

A gas station has gas listed at anything under $3.00 a gallon.

Someone has a portable phone with an antenna sticking out of it.

Someone rips off a sheet of paper from a printer/fax.

Someone uses a fax.

Bad/rich guys use $100 bills with this type of portrait of Ben.

(https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.254594732.2706/mp,550x550,matte,ffffff,t.3u3.jpg)

Actually, I send/receive faxes almost every day.

On topic: You know a movie's old when there's a gas station attendant.

When news comes via teletype.

When the TV's not flat.

.Most all of the male cast members are wearing fedoras.
.A cop uses a 'call box.'
. Someone uses  a phone and an operator asks your number.
.When somebody gets shot, and there's no blood.

.It's in black and white.
.People speak in boxes with fancy type.
.The soundtrack is a rinky-dink piano.
.Folks are wearing flat straw hats. Rich folks wear Top hats and use cigarette holders.
. Dinosaurs were animated by Willis O'Brien or Ray Harryhausen.
. At the end of the movie, it says- "The END."
.If there's an intermission break in the middle of the movie.
.People are drinking soda pop out of glass bottles.
.Someone is ironing clothes.
. The husband wears a tie at home. He smokes a pipe and reads the newspaper. The wife wears a dress or apron.
. Kids say "Golly!" or "Gee whiz!".

... you never see a wound. 

... death is always off screen. 

... there are no television sets. 

... sexy then is not sexy now. 

... less is more. 

Advanced alien technology contains vacuum tubes, and can easily be understood, manipulated & sabotaged by by any layman.

...a tv show has an episode name displayed at the beginning.

. There isn't a rap song or 'funny out takes" playing during the end credits.
. A guy gets knocked out buy being punched in the chin.
. The moon is populated by blonde beauty queens.
. All laundry mats are run by Chinese folks who can barely speak English.
. All Asian people are either Evil Mad Men or Wise Detectives who speak in stilted English.
. On a train, there are sleeping cars.
. On a train- all the Porters are black and addresed as "Say boy-!"

... every other white family has a happy to serve black maid.  Or somebo'dee roun' da kakorner. 

... queer people are evil. 

... sin will always be punished. 

... if the camera pans away from a kiss and shows the moon, the kissing couple are having sex. 

... a cigar is proof of power. 

 .Dracula doesn't have fangs.
. All giant monsters were created by the Atom Bomb.
. Werewolves always wore pants and a shirt.
. There's a hunchback in the movie.
. There is a scene where the scientist/doctor says " Mad, am I? You call me mad?"".
. There just happens to be a gorilla in a cage, for no apparent reason.

A gorilla is considered a monster. 

Being exposed to radioactivity causes things to grow hundreds of times their normal size. 

Zombies are created by voodoo. 

. All blood in horror movies is the color of bright Dutch Boy paint.
. It features the Lone Ranger, Charlie Chan, or Dick Tracy.
. Folks cross there eyes when they're hit over the head.
. All people from Kentucky or Tennesee were straw hats and long beards and smoke corn cob pipes.
. All black people are scared of ghosts and skeletons.
. Somebody's hair stands up when they're scared.

That's a major reason I won't watch GONE WITH THE WIND.
There are lotsa other reasons, but that's big on my list.

The man does all the driving, even if it's her car.

I'm not a fan of that movie.  But I say unto thee: bullsh!t. 
I love Mammy, and Prissy, and Big Sam.  I wish they were part of my family.  It's a fantasy concept.  I imagine enslaved people might not care to serve.  I wouldn't.  The movie is definitely racist.  I'm white and I never cared much for that movie or the book which I actually read.  All 1000+ pages.  Scarlett had a child with each of her three husbands in the book.  Total romantic hogwash. 

I never watched it all the way through. All I know is- the black actors and actresess in the film did a good job. ALL the actors did a good job. I just can't stand the movie.

I always noticed that lotsa times- in movies pre 1950, they always get in the car on the passenger side and scoot. The driver don't get on the drivers side- he gets in the car from the passenger side.
Look close. It's true.

.Pancakes will stick to the ceiling.
.If a saw is run across your head, it will bend the teeth.
.If a shovel is smacked unto the top of your head, it will retain the shape of your head .
.Somebody with a toothache will have an icepack tied onto they're head. And try to get it pulled out buy a string and a doorknob.

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

wah-ronguh...  :bouncegiggle:

. If a piano is being hoisted or pushed up a steep set of stairs- it will fall.
. If there is a clam in your soup- it will spit at you.
. If you are in the army- and 'ABOUT FACE'! With a gun- you will smack the person behind you with your gun barrel.
. If you accidently get covered in flour- people will think your a ghost.

Any man no matter how ugly will become incredibly attractive to other men if wearing a dress.

* Men refer to women as "Dames."

* Someone says, "Say, fellas, that's a swell idea!"

* When a man says he's "making love" to a woman, it means he's saying flattering things to her.

* Someone says, "Say, what's the idea?"

* People could have a "gay time" without going to a bath house.

* A man (often the hero) slaps a woman across the face and shakes her by the shoulders.

* Women wear big hats and silk stockings with seams up the back.

* People always call their boss "Mister Smith" or whatever instead of using his first name.

* The boss I mentioned above is always a man.

* Pilots say, "Roger, wilco, over and out." (Which makes no sense, because "over" means you're turning the conversation over to the person you are talking to so they can respond and "out" means you are ending the conversation).

* Women just get sick, go to bed for a few weeks and then die. There's no explanation of what they died of.

* The whole family eats dinner together. They use matching silverware and china and the kids drink big glasses of milk.

* Night clubs have bands whose members wear tuxedos when they play and there are cigarette girls walking around in skimpy outfits.

* If there is a trustworthy guy in the movie, his friends say, "He's a good Joe."

* Bullies always wear scally caps

* Prison is called "The Big House."

* Police are called "Coppers."

* Prison guards are called "Screws."

* Pistols are called "heaters."

* When people go out to nightclubs, there is always a montage of neon signs, people dancing, bartenders pouring drinks, and roulette wheels.

* Even though most people are driving cars and trucks, the ice man has a wagon pulled by a horse.

* Whenever someone gets murdered, a newspaper spins around on the screen and then stops so that the audience can read the headline.

* If the movie is set in a rural area, there's usually a sequence that takes place at the local fair.

* If soldiers go into a bar, a fight eventually breaks out and the M.P.s show up.

* If soldiers go into a bar, the Andrews Sisters usually show up and start singing.

* Every apartment or hotel room in the bad part of the city has a bed with an old, thin mattress and a radiator that doesn't work.

* Married couples sleep in twin beds.

* Men never go to the bathroom. But women sometimes go to the powder room.

* In westerns, there is only one person who can make good coffee. It's usually a grizzled old guy with a beard.

* Kids never have a lot of toys and games around the house. Usually the boys have a baseball glove and maybe a toy gun and girls have a doll.

You were right, GWTW was fantasy. I've said the same thing.

I'm a big fan of Bill Maher, and glad his shows starts up again tonight but i disagree with him at times. He criticized modern movies for all being to much fantasy, superheros and space people. (I am so sick of superhero movies I agreed that there are too many superhero movies by an order of magnitude.)

But he cited movies like the godfather and GWTW as examples of more realistic movies from the past. Uh, sorry, bill, gotta say what you said,  bullsh-t.

Were the happy, contended slaves and friendly, genial massa's of Tara any less of a fantasy than beautiful blue alien catpeople and superpowered mutants with lasers shooting out of their eyes? No, GWTW was as much a fantasy as any superhero or scifi movie ever made. The same holds for the soft spoken, sophisticated mafiosi  in the godfather.

As a side note, Hattie O'Hare, who played mammy in GWTW was not allowed to be buried in a hollywood cemetery with white actors as segregation at the time extended to death and beyond.

(BTW, you actually managed to read GWTW? Ok, I'm impressed. I'd rather read "Battlefield earth" than read that. Did you know there was a satire of GWTW written by a black woman called "The wind done gone",  that was a more realistic look at GWTW from a slave's POV? There was a legal battle over it, if you read GWTW you might be interested.)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Done_Gone

Good topic, and I think you guys did well here.  :thumbup:

I read GWTW in high school; students had to choose a book about the Civil War (Social Studies class) from a list provided by the teacher.  He was impressed with my choice, but only I expect because of sheer page count. 

I do not go to movies much, I prefer old movies.  Hence, I don't want to look at another superhero movie either. 

GODFATHER thugs are NOT soft spoken or sophisticates.  Don't agree.  That movie works for me. 

It's in black-and-white.

There's a credit for color cinematography.

Sleazy jaz score.

CinemaScope gets it's own card in the opening credits.

No closing credits, or they're only a cast list.

Indians are bad guys. 

Somebody "has to get to a phone!" in a town or city and still can't find one. 

People that get shot just hold their chests and fall down. 

Vampires actually follow all the rules of being a vampire without every being immune to one of the weaknesses and then telling somebody that "they watch too many movies."