This piece of text comes from a newspaper from Thursday, April 30th 1953. Exactly 79 years ago from the day of writing this. Same day of the week too! The text is about an interview between Mrs. Lucille Townsend and Mr Morelock (The owner of the Drive-In movie theater). The text is interesting because it goes into detail about a situation where people are unhappy with the quality of movies that are being shown at the drive-in. In the interview it is stated that people should not be blaming Mr. Morelock due to the fact that he shows the movies and does not create them himself. He also says that there is room for more drive-in theaters than just his in cottage grove if anyone really wanted to build one.
Another thing I found that was interesting within the text was that it was stated that first-run movies were not permitted to be shown at the drive-in because they must first be viewed at the "Arcade" which was another theater owned by Mr. Morelock.
By far my favorite quote in the text when in reference to a quote by a movie producer was this:
"'We are forced to make poor pictures because the average
moviegoer has a 12-year-old -mind.' Actually it is 12-year-old minds that are making movies for us."
I thought this was funny because it shows that people during the 1950's thought that many of the films being produced were not good.
Morelock also talks about how producers should include an "A" for adult movies and a "CH" for quote "little people".
Lastly the final sentence in the text from Morelock is "The showers we've had are a part of spring and we ain't fight-in it"
