- Collection:
- Rylander Theatre Special Collections
- Title:
- Martin Theatre & Sunset Drive-In program—Sunday & Monday, October 25 & 26"
- Creator:
- Martin Theatre (Americus, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1959
- Subject:
- Americus (Ga.)--History
Martin Theatre (Americus, Ga.)
Sunset Drive-In (Americus (Ga.)
Theaters--Georgia--Americus
Motion picture film--History
Theater programs--Georgia--Americus
The Diary of Anne Frank (Motion picture : 1959)
Fit to be Tied (Animated film : 1952)
The Fiend Who Walked the West (Motion picture : 1958)
Vertigo (Motion picture : 1958)
Paying the Piper (Animated film : 1949) - People:
- Perkins, Millie, 1938-
Stevens, George, 1904-1975
Schildkraut, Joseph, 1895-1964
Winters, Shelley
Beymer, Richard, 1939-
O'Brian, Hugh
Evans, Robert, 1930-2019
Stewart, Jimmy, 1912-1997
Novak, Kim
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980
Tom (Fictitious character : Hanna and Barbera)
Jerry (Fictitious character : Hanna and Barbera)
McKimson, Robert, 1910-1977
Porky Pig (Fictitious character) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Americus, 32.07239, -84.23269
- Medium:
- motion picture theater programs
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Program for the movies shown on Sunday and Monday, October 25th–26th at the Martin Theatre and Sunset Drive-In. The movies include: The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), shown with the Tom and Jerry animated short Fit to be Tied (1952); The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958) and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), shown with the Bob McKimson Looney Toons short Paying the Piper (1949) featuring Porky Pig. 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.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ryl_rtsc_rtsc21
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ryl_rtsc_rtsc21#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ryl_rtsc_rtsc21/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Rylander Theatre (Americus, Ga.)
- Rights:
-
