- Collection:
- Rylander Theatre Special Collections
- Title:
- Martin Theatre & Sunset Drive-In program—Sunday thru Wednesday September 13-14-15-16
- 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
A Hole in the Head (Motion picture : 1959)
Two Mouseketeers (Animated film : 1952)
Escape from Red Rock (Motion picture : 1957)
Torpedo Run (Motion picture : 1958)
Magoo's Young Manhood (Animated film : 1958) - People:
- Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998
Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973
Parker, Eleanor, 1922-2013
Jones, Carolyn, 1930-1983
Ritter, Thelma
Wynn, Keenan, 1916-1986
Capra, Frank, 1897-1991
Donlevy, Brian
Ford, Glenn, 1916-2006
Borgnine, Ernest, 1917-2012
Mr. Magoo (Fictitious character)
Tom (Fictitious character : Hanna and Barbera)
Jerry (Fictitious character : Hanna and Barbera)
Backus, Jim
Butler, Daws
Foray, June - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Americus, 32.07239, -84.23269
- Medium:
- motion picture theater programs
- Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Program for the movies shown on Sunday and Wednesday, September 13–16th at the Martin Theatre and Sunset Drive-In. The movies include: A Hole in the Head (1959), shown along with the animated Tom and Jerry short Two Mouseketeers (1952); and the two features Escape from Red Rock (1957) and Torpedo Run (1958), shown with the animated short Magoo's Young Manhood (1958), a Mr. Magoo cartoon. 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_rtsc22
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ryl_rtsc_rtsc22#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ryl_rtsc_rtsc22/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Rylander Theatre (Americus, Ga.)
- Rights:
-
