Mitch4 has some questions:
“1) Are the shoes in the last panel meant to be actually larger, or just drawn that way to call our attention to them? Are these her own shoes with left and right exchanged, or maybe even somebody else’s shoes?
“2) What does her seating behind that tall, bald man have to do with getting her shoes “mixed up” [regardless of which kind of mixing up it was]? Does it mean she stood up on her seat to see past him, but was courteous enough to take off her shoes so as to not dirty up the seat as much?”
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My first thought is that she took off her shoes during the movie to relax, but so did some of the other patrons, and she accidentally put someone else’s on when the movie was over. Being barefoot in a theater sounds gross to me, though.
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Those are clearly different shoes than she walked in with. I’m stumped, though.
I’m also annoyed at Universal Uclick for asserting a 2017 copyright on a (then-) 67-year-old work.
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Could it be that this predates the assumption that theater floors are gross?
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I have to agree with Xine Fury and Powers, but I doubt that anything could predate the assumption that theater floors are gross.
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And why is she wearing her old outfit in the movie and a new dress before and after?
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allanasaph: Maybe what we see in P1 and P3 is a coat?
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I’m amazed there was a time when a child could go unsupervised to a movie.
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We used to go alone or with just a buddy. I have fond memories of The Legend of Frenchie King when I was about 14.
(Bridget Bardot nude!)
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My mom often let the 4 of us go to the movies unsupervised. At our youngest, we would have been 13, 11, 9, and 8. We were dropped off and picked up, as it was too far to walk. But I could go alone if I biked there and had my own money for the ticket (which I very seldom did).
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It was a different time, you understand.
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I still remember being frightened by the movie Them by myself in 1954, at age 8 or thereabouts. (I saw it again a couple of years ago, and it was just schlock.)
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Frasier: Remember when you used to think the 1812 Overture was a great piece of classical music?
Niles: Was I ever that young?
— Frasier “Dinner at Eight,” 1993
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I, for one, still enjoy a well-performed 1812 Overture.
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The Crane brothers arch eyebrows in your general direction. No Wine Club for you.
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That was the era of the Neighborhood House, a local second-run theater as opposed to the big first-run houses downtown or in the nearest big city. This was where you had fresh double features every two or three days, with the rare blockbuster running Five Big Days. Up until television took root frequent moviegoing was still a thing, creating sufficient demand for truckloads of A pictures and a trainloads of B pictures to fill those monthly flyers your local Bijou passed out.
They were local businesses on Main Street, where the manager told your parents if you were rowdy at the Saturday Matinee and everybody knew if you sat by a girl.
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Perhaps it’s just a bad pun… Double FEETure
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bensondonald: I remember when one of the local theatres had a mega-show of all the Planet of the Apes movies. We all went with a buck or two for snacks, which of course we all spent on the first movie. Between movies was chaos: kids up in the balcony flinging flattened popcorn boxes at the kids below. No sign of any theatre management. But we survived!
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