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The afternoon movie was a popular practice of local television stations in North America from the 1950s through the 1970s. It consisted of the daily weekday showing of old films usually between 12:30 and 2:00 P.M; if the film ran two hours or more, it was split into two parts.
Matinee, an American period film by Joe Dante; Matinee, an Indian film by Aneesh Upasana "The Dark of the Matinée", also known as "Matinée", a song by Franz Ferdinand; Matinée (disco), South American alcohol-free discothèque for teenagers; Matinee, a machinima production software tool
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from October 31, 1955, [1] to June 27, 1958. [2] Its name is often seen as Matinee Theatre . The series, which ran daily from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. [ 2 ] Eastern Time, was usually broadcast live and most of the time in color.
Matinee is a 1993 American comedy film directed by Joe Dante, written by Jerico Stone [3] and Charles S. Haas, and starring John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Kellie Martin, and Lisa Jakub with supporting roles done by Robert Picardo and Jesse White (in his final theatrical film role).
Tony Myerberg left MGM, and set up a similar franchise at Paramount Pictures, Paramount Family Matinee, that also repackaged reissues of family films owned by the studio like Hello Down There (1968), Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), Black Beauty (1971), and Charlotte's Web (1973), with acquisitions from other producers, including ...
The etymology of the term "movie theater" involves the term "movie", which is a "shortened form of moving picture in the cinematographic sense" that was first used in 1896 [7] and "theater", which originated in the "...late 14c., [meaning an] open air place in ancient times for viewing spectacles and plays". The term "theater" comes from the ...
Some movie theaters such as the Living Room Theaters or Alamo Drafthouse offer full restaurant service at one's seat, though this is not as widespread. McMenamins is a chain of restaurant/brewpub establishments in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington, many of which have full movie theaters. By the mid 1940s in some smaller theaters popcorn ...
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.