My Movie History Part 2

My mother has extremely fond memories of movies that she saw with her grandmother in theaters.  I would hear of the sets of plates they gave out and the sing a longs. They spent a quarter and saw 2 movies a serial a cartoon and a news real.  I was  not so lucky to be around when the movies were such grand events, but I do have a fond movie memory when I was little and had the chicken pox. It was hot and I itched like hell, my mom made popcorn, not jiffy pop real stove top popcorn, and we stayed up all night  and watched TV. I got  great film education that night.  

Arsenic and Old Lace

Operation Petticoat, one of the movies she saw with her grandmother

and the Twilight Zone episode The Invaders starring Agnes Moorehead. 

Contest for Marie's ZGB&G

It's no secret, there is a bar in "Marie's Zero Gravity Bar and Grill", and this intergalactic bar need a proper drink menu. C-Squared Pictures is going to have a contest. You come up with a winning drink for the bar, and we will be use in the series, named it for you or whatever name you wish and included in the "Marie's Zero Gravity Bar and Grill" drinks guide.

There will be a very special prize to go along with the winning entry.

Being Friday get together with friend or pleasant strangers and have a blast, the process should be as much fun as the result. We are planning on inviting friends over to "Experiment" with colors, consistencies and flavors. You should do the same.

Contest rules and requirements will be forth coming once the team of C-Squared Pictures Lawyers has had chance to write them.

My Movie History Part 1

I’ve always loved TV and movies from the time I was little.  I was in trader Joe’s the other day and their cashiers seem to be required to make idle chitchat while packing up your groceries. I’ve come to enjoy the exchange but was recently thrown for a loop when I was asked what my favorite movie was.  My mind went to Star Wars. It is the movie I’ve watched more then any other, well over 200 times. When the movie first came out my family was on a summer trip to Ohio and on our trip we would usually go see a movie mixed in with the historic sight seeing and amusement parks.. That particular night I had a fever and had to miss Star Wars. A nine year old missing the premiere of Star Wars at that time was a tragedy, I would have been a social outcast once school started. Luckily in the hotel room on television was Lawrence of Arabia.  

My second bit of luck was that my father worked for RCA and we had one of the first VCRs. He also, and I don’t know how, got a copy of Star Wars from Australian TV and my brother and I wore that tape out.  When the film came back to the theaters we spent all summer seeing it three to four times a day. The tape was no longer watchable.