Sue, I totally agree! I started my son at around 1 1/2 by putting on The Day the Earth Stood Still to try to get him to take a nap. After about 6mos. he starting watching Gort and thinking...WOW!...this is pretty cool! He had to watch the movie 3 to 4 times a day for weeks....still watches the movie when ever it's on TV. Loves the b&w Universal monsters, Wolfman being his favorite...any b&w dinosaur movies verses the newer color/special effects. Also, the same with older b&w TV shows, including the Addams family verses the newer ones...OOPS!
One other thing about starting them when they are young. Before my son was born, I asked a dealer at Cinevent, if and finally how he could have is collection of posters and not having his children bothering it. I thought I would have to keep a room locked or put it in storage...whatever. He said no, store it the same way as if they weren't around and make them a part of it, when ever a new piece arrives or bring on out to show. The kids will then show respect and interest. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Heim To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:35 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Will Film stars of the 30s be forgotten? You have to start them young. Children, when they are young, are often still "wanting to please", so when they see your enthusiam, they will follow. Both my daughters were reared on black and white films. It wasn't until my oldest daughter was about 7, that she asked me why the movies we watched were black and white when everything else on t.v. was color. So, she got the history lesson. My 12 year old and I just watched Casablanca the other evening as TCM has the Oscar movies this month. We've watched it before and she loved it. Her favorite film is Roman Holiday and she has the international one sheet of that hanging above her desk thanks to Kirby. One of her favorite movies is Picnic and we watch that regularly, sometimes in the middle of the night when we can't sleep. She sees all the current films that a 12 year old would see with her friends, loves Little Miss Sunshine (so did I), but she loves the old movies and there are many times she just picks out something and I hear her watching it on her own. To Kill a Mockingbird or It's a Wonderful Life. My oldest daughter loved all of Shirley Temples's early films. Again, just as it was for me growing up in the 50's and 60's, watching those old black and whites on Saturday or Sunday matinees on t.v. was a great history lesson for me and I never even realized it at the time. Just like anything, if you want your kids to have an interest, like a love of reading, it has to come from you and the earlier you start it, and the more exposure you offer, the better. They are little sponges, really!! Sue www.hollywoodposterframes.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:53:01 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOPO] Will Film stars of the 30s be forgotten? To: [email protected] One big part of the problem... You can't get kids to watch black and white movies. They'll never know the joys of THE THIN MAN, THE MALTESE FALCON, or whatever else you can think of... I absolutely know several actors who have never even seen IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE because it's in black and white. They've just never bothered to watch it. These are actors for God's sake. How can you expect anyone to know who some of these people are if they've never seen them... At that point you have to forget them ever watching a silent movie unless they are in a film class... So it adds up to the fact that they'll never know about these stars. That's just really sad. Glenn T. ----- Original Message ----- From: Douglas Ball To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Will Film stars of the 30s be forgotten? On the flip side, my mother-in-law did not know who Bruce Springsteen was until she watched him during the Super Bowl half time. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Hershenson To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Will Film stars of the 30s be forgotten? Twenty years ago, there was a joke circulating. A baby boomer observed two teenagers in a record store looking at some "Beatles" record albums. One turned to the other and said, "I didn't know Paul McCartney was in a band before "Wings"! When you tell that joke to a teenager now, they say, "What are record albums?" How come, with all the endless "improvements" in the world, people seem generally less happy, more stressed, and have to work harder to "keep up" than ever before? Bruce On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: Some universities have film clubs which help preserve the classics and pass the films on to the next generations. Unfortunately I had two occasions when major stars were not heard of. I went to Frank Sinatra Jr's concert at Jones Hall in Houston last year. I stayed after the show to meet him, get his autograph on my CD and have a picture taken with him. After printing the picture at CVS, I showed it to the cashier and told her he was the son of Frank Sinatra. Her response was, "Who is Frank Sinatra? On the otherhand, most remember Judy Garland and Debbie Reynolds. 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