August 14, 2009
The Return Of Scipio on "Airport Land;" "For a snapshot of the way we were, see any movie from the 50s that has a scene in an airport. You will be startled. We the People were different then. Thinner too."Posted by Vanderleun at August 14, 2009 8:57 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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"We the People were different then. Thinner too."
1. Younger.
2. Smoked.
Posted by: Fat Man at August 14, 2009 10:44 AM
Yes we were thinner. Newsreels show that. But the movies tell us little.
You might as well look at stage productions today and say the actors are like the audience.
Before 1960 movies seldom included actual public scenes. Nearly everything was done using extras on a constructed set.
The extras were a self selected group to begin with. Then the casting director usually filtered out the heavy, tall, short, very young or old or ugly. The idea was that those were distractions.
Yes, I was there...
Posted by: K at August 14, 2009 1:05 PM