Movie dramaturgy experienced a golden age in the1980s . The popcorn was cheap , theblockbusterswere entertaining , and there were no smartphones to distract from the experience . Whether or not you were around for the decennary , you could trip back in time with the video above from the YouTube channelVampire Robot .
The retro footage shows a meddlesome pic theater in Los Angeles , California , on the weekend of March 27 , 1987 . It open up with a clerk ring citizenry up and handing them their just the ticket before the camera usher customer buyingsnacksand drinks . Later in the video , the hoi polloi crowd into the theatre to select their ( unassigned ) hindquarters . Movies play at the movie house that weekend includedPlatoon , Hoosiers , andCrocodile Dundee .
Modern viewers will notice several differences between the video and today ’s moviegoing experience . One is that people used cash to buy nearly everything , which is no longer the case . accord toCapital One , 47.8 percent of Americans do n’t use cash at all in an average calendar week , and 81 percent of U.S. consumers opt to compensate with poster . The COVID-19 Pandemic is partially to blame for the faulting , as Americans largelyabandoned cashfor contactless payment .
Now movie theater customers typically buy tickets online and insure in with their phones . That would have been unthinkable in 1987 — the only way to get a ticket back then was by suffer in line on the night of a showing . It was’t until 2006 thatFandagofirst kick in people the option to purchase film tickets on their mobile devices .
One of the most glaring changes is Zea mays everta receptacle sizes . The large popcorn ordered in the telecasting is importantly littler than the massive buckets modernistic moviegoers are familiar with . Popcorn service sizes are n’t the only things that have increased . The snack ’s cost has gone up over a1000 percentsince 1929 , even when adjusted for pomposity .
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