It would be fun if theaters showed a classic Warner Bros or Fleischer cartoon before a movie. The audience would enjoy it and how much could it cost?
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Cartoons at movie theaters
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they get more revenue showing commercials and previews I guess. Lots of kids movies still do it though. Pixar always shows an original short first.
Warner Bros. like Merry Melodies or Looney Toones? A good number of those are fairly raciest for modern viewpoints and they'd probable get complaints about them. I used to watch those when I was younger and more innocent about things. I recently started watching them again and was surprised at some of the character drawings and stereotypes. But some of the old throwback WW2 cartoons would be nice to see again.
A lot of the compilations have a disclaimer, "they were wrong then and they are wrong now."
Revenues from ads are very profitable for the theaters. I ran one for a committee I sit on and it cost us $2000 for 1 week. Plus I had to design the ad or it would have been more. Now imagine the 20 ads per week they run. Profitable!
30-40 years ago, I remember going to a theater and seeing cartoons before the movie. Not sure when they moved away from that as I have never been a frequent visitor to theaters (haven't been since 1997).
About the same time the lady stopped coming to the front to sell ice-creams just before the main picture with her torch. How times have changed....
I was a projectionist back in the day. It was around 1980 or so when the distributors stopped including the cartoons and informative shorts ("This is St Louis!")