Then you're too damn slow.....I am 16fps
I've never heard of this before, and it was usually the other way around-- a film would play BIG theaters first and then move to smaller theaters in its run.I remember reading somewhere that occasionally, once films moved to bigger theaters, that they would project short funny placecards before the film...
Ahhh...yes. Those. the words "glass slides" seems simple enough to me...but for some reason eluded me.silentfilm wrote:Most theaters would show glass slides before the show. These were ancestors of those 2x2 slides that your parents would show after a big vacation in the 1960s.
Glass slides would show coming attractions or advertisements. During the silent era, some glass slides would show the lyrics to a song that the piano player or organist whould play along with the music. The Fleisher brothers used that as inspiration for their "bouncing ball" cartoons that encouraged audiences to "sing along" with the music.
