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Svengoolie 3
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« on: August 02, 2018, 07:31:17 AM »

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.
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Trevor
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« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2018, 07:49:38 AM »

In my case, watching old movies is part of my daily routine.  Smile
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Pacman000
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« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2018, 08:39:47 AM »

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.

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« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2018, 08:41:28 AM »

Everyone is smoking. Wink

I was watching Good Luck And Good Night the other day and yes, the smokers were even smoking between smokes.  Wink
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A Great Heart to stand me by.
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« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2018, 09:17:01 AM »

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!"
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Svengoolie 3
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« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2018, 09:19:42 AM »

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


Soooo, you know you're watching an old movie when you're awake? Wink
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« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2018, 05:46:53 PM »

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.



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« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2018, 06:25:55 PM »

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.
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"Charlie,we're in HELL!"-"yeah,ain't it groovy?!"


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« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2018, 08:28:44 PM »

.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.
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« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2018, 09:21:11 PM »

.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!".


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"Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."

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Allhallowsday
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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped!


« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2018, 09:28:42 PM »

... you never see a wound. 

... death is always off screen. 

... there are no television sets. 

... sexy then is not sexy now. 

... less is more. 
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« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2018, 09:34:21 PM »

Advanced alien technology contains vacuum tubes, and can easily be understood, manipulated & sabotaged by by any layman.
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« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2018, 09:43:00 PM »

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

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« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2018, 09:50:37 PM »

. 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-!"
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"Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."

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Allhallowsday
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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped!


« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2018, 09:59:31 PM »

... 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. 



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