When I was a child, obsessing over movies wasn’t really a thing like it is for kids today.
There were no home VCRs.
If you were seeing a movie it was either in a theater or on broadcast TV.
The thing we experience today where a kid will watch a movie over and over for weeks just couldn’t happen.
The one thing that did happen back then is movies would be repetitively broadcast on TV. So you’d be able to watch the same movie multiple times on TV. However, you’d have to wait until sometime decided to show it on their station.
One movie I remember seeing a lot on TV when I was young was Born Free. I’d watch that whenever I came across it.
My mom hated the “boob tube”, and restricted our viewing heavily. But, on the other hand, she had excellent taste when it came to family films. Gods Must Be Crazy was another one she picked that we all loved. (Not that the two are at all similar!)
When I was a child, obsessing over movies wasn’t really a thing like it is for kids today.
There were no home VCRs.
If you were seeing a movie it was either in a theater or on broadcast TV.
The thing we experience today where a kid will watch a movie over and over for weeks just couldn’t happen.
The one thing that did happen back then is movies would be repetitively broadcast on TV. So you’d be able to watch the same movie multiple times on TV. However, you’d have to wait until sometime decided to show it on their station.
One movie I remember seeing a lot on TV when I was young was Born Free. I’d watch that whenever I came across it.
Love that movie!
My mom hated the “boob tube”, and restricted our viewing heavily. But, on the other hand, she had excellent taste when it came to family films. Gods Must Be Crazy was another one she picked that we all loved. (Not that the two are at all similar!)