- Collection:
- Rylander Theatre Special Collections
- Title:
- ROXY Week Comm. February 29
- Creator:
- Roxy Theatre (Americus, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1948
- Subject:
- Americus (Ga.)--History
Roxy Theatre (Americus, Ga.)
Theaters--Georgia--Americus
Motion picture film--History
Animated films--History
Theater programs--Georgia--Americus
The Yearling (Motion picture : 1948)
One Hundred Men and a Girl (Motion picture : 1937)
Hard Rock Harrigan (Motion picture : 1935)
East Side of Heaven (Motion picture : 1939)
Cheyenne Takes Over (Motion picture : 1947) - People:
- Peck, Gregory, 1916-2003
Wyman, Jane, 1917-2007
Durbin, Deanna
Menjou, Adolphe, 1890-1963
Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977
LaRue, Lash
St. John, Al, 1893-1963 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Americus, 32.07239, -84.23269
- Medium:
- theater posters
motion picture theater programs - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Poster of movie listings for the Roxy Theatre (now Rylander Theatre) in February and March 1948. The Roxy was primarily a movie house in Americus, Georgia in the 1940s. The movies listed include The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman; 100 Men and a Girl, starring Deanna Durbin and Adolphe Menjou; Hard Rock Harrigan; East Side of Heaven, starring Bing Crosby; and Cheyenne Takes Over starring Al "Lash" LaRue and Al "Fuzzy" St. John. The program shows that cartoons or segments from serial films were shown along with the main features. Beginning during the Great Depression, it became common for neighborhood theaters to screen a variety of programs that would consist of trailers, newsreels, cartoons, or short films, along with low-budget second features ("B movies") and then the high-budget main features ( "A" movies). This kind of programming was due in part to "block booking," where major Hollywood studios required theaters to buy lower-quality B-movies along with the more desirable A-movies. "Block booking" was deemed illegal in 1948 (in the Supreme Court case United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.), though the practice of providing multiple features in movie theatres continued well until the late 1960s. Many repertory theaters continue to show two films back-to-back.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ryl_rtsc_rtsc15
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ryl_rtsc_rtsc15#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ryl_rtsc_rtsc15/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Rylander Theatre (Americus, Ga.)
- Rights:
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