United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Americus, 32.07239, -84.23269Martin Theatre (Americus, Ga.)1959Program for the movies shown during the week of July 7th at the Martin Theatre and Sunset Drive-In. The movies include: Battle Hymn (1957); The Women of Pitcairn Island (1956); The Iron Petticoat (1956); Timetable (1956); Desk Set (1957); The Lonely Man (1957); Gun Brothers (1956); Jail Busters (1955); Blazing the Overland Trail (1956); Bernardine (1957); and Gun Glory (1957). Animated features and shorts included: Walt Disney's Cinderella (1950); Tex Avery's Garden Gopher (1950) and Chump Champ (1950); Friz Freleng's Merrie Melodies short Back Alley Uproar; Chuck Jones' One Froggy Evening (1955), Robert McKimson's Too Hop to Handle(1956), Walter Lantz's Arts and Flowers (1956), and Izzy Sparber's Heir Restorer and Line of Screamage (1949). 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.enghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Americus (Ga.)--HistoryMartin Theatre (Americus, Ga.)Sunset Drive-In (Americus (Ga.)Theaters--Georgia--AmericusMotion picture film--HistoryAnimated films--HistoryTheater programs--Georgia--AmericusBattle Hymn (Motion picture : 1957)The Women of Pitcairn Island (Motion picture : 1956)Garden Gopher (Animated film : 1950)Heir Restorer and Line of Screamage (Animated film : 1949)Arts and Flowers (Animated film : 1956)The Iron Petticoat (Motion picture : 1956)Timetable (Motion picture : 1956)Back Alley Uproar (Animated film : 1948)Desk Set (Motion picture : 1957)Punchy de Leon (Animated film : 1950)The Lonely Man (Motion picture : 1957)Chump Champ (Animated film : 1950)Cinderella (Animated film : 1950)Antiedote (Motion picture)One Froggy Evening (Animated film : 1955)Gun Brothers (Motion picture : 1956)Jail Busters (Motion picture : 1955)Blazing the Overland Trail (Motion picture : 1956)Too Hop to Handle (Animated film : 1956)Bernardine (Motion picture : 1957)Gun Glory (Motion picture : 1957)Martin Theatre & Sunset Drive-In program—week of July 7Text