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[Maurice]

[Bud Brewster]

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Ah-HA! Good point. Thanks. Is this better?


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~ This is an improved version with the marquee text corrected by orzel-w.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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[Maurice]

I sense what you really really want is this font, Bud.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/pelavin/marquee/faceted/
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[Bud Brewster]

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My goodness, Maurice, those fonts are far to fancy for the poor little East Point Theater!

I realize that big theaters like the one at Lenox Square in Atlanta (where I grew up) had raised letters similar to the font shown at the site you provided. But if I had used a font like that one from Paint.net (the app I used to modify the old photo), the letters would not have looked like real plastic letters on a marquee.





Besides, that would have been the wrong kind of letters for the little East Point Theater anyway. This was a small 600 seat theater in a Mayberry-sized Georgia town. It probably used a fairly small (and simple) version of the marquee letters, because the marquee itself was small.

However, as you can see from the jpegs below, even large theaters (like the RKO Hill Street Theater in Los Angeles and the Paramount Theater in Atlanta) just used letters that appear to be flat — which is exactly what I used.







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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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[orzel-w]

Maybe something more like this, then?


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WayneO
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[Bud Brewster]

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Hey, by gum that DOES look better! I'll make the change in the original and replace it in the post above and in the Beyond the Time Barrier thread.

Nice going, Wayne!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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[Gord Green]

I went to "THE LOST WORLD " once , but couldn't find it again.

I guess I "lost" it!

[Maurice]

[Bud Brewster]

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Good Lord, Maurice, I'm glad you didn't post pictures of the gorgeous Balboa Theater before we discussed the poor old East Point Theater and my efforts to restore it to a better condition using a photo of it long after it had closed down.

This old photo of the Balboa Theater from 1968 makes it look like a small step up from the East Point Theater —





— but these more recent color photos of the Balboa clearly show that even though it was a small theater (800 seats, just 1/3 larger than the East Point Theater's 600 seats), it's spectacular appearance is equal to many much larger "movie palaces"!


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But I hated the fact that the jungle of telephone wires were so distracting. They marred the two magnificent shots of the Balboa I found, like the one above and the second one below. So I went to work removing the wires from both photos, and here's the results.


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And even the interior of the Balboa Theater puts the old East Point Theater to shame. I don't have a picture of the interior, but it was very plain and unimpressive — as opposed to the beauty of the Balboa.





Maurice, I'm so pleased that you and Paul are working to restore the Balboa to its glory days. If you could provided us with photos of the restoration work, we'd love to see them.

Perhaps I'll start a thread on this subject in Off Topic Discussions and invite other members to share their memories of theaters like the East Point, the LaRose (which Rick has told us about), and the Balboa.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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[Bud Brewster]

GETTING TO KNOW OUR FAVORITE MONSTERS!
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Just how did the makers of this movie (and others like it) get those alligators and crocodiles to fight so viciously.





Well, apparently it's easy . . . especially during mating season!
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_________________ Gator fight on golf course


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Robert (Butch) Day]

Jill St.John was a very popular girl. While making the movie she had these pictures taken:







I'd definitely fight over this during "mating season"!!!
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[Bud Brewster]

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The YouTube video called "Alligators fight over female" was removed, so I replaced it with the one above.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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[Pow]

TLW Trivia } Irwin Allen's 1959 hit The Big Circus made it possible for him to get TLW produced.

Allen tried very hard to secure Gilbert Roland for the role that Fernando Lamas would ultimately play in the film.

Allen wanted James Mason for the part of professor Challenger.

Allen felt that it was disrespectful for any of the crew to address the cast by their first names.
Claude Rains was fine being called by his first name. Calling him 'Mr.Rains' made him feel like an old man according to Claude.

The ASPCA made a formal complaint against 20th Century Fox regarding the fight between the lizards.

David Hedison felt that the movie was terrible. It was why he turned down numerous times the offer from Irwin to be cast in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea movie, and later the television series.

[Bud Brewster]

[Bud Brewster]

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I can't believe I haven't put the trailer for this movie on the thread. What WAS I thinking?

Omission corrected!
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______________ The Lost World (1960) Trailer


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)