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The Great Depression In Hampton Roads: Sydney Gates
Special | 1m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
Grand movie palaces and Scarface kept audiences coming during the Depression.
Step inside the grand movie palaces of the Great Depression, where towering screens and glittering box seats offered escape from hard times. From the Roxy Theatre to repeat showings of Scarface, this episode explores how Hollywood thrived when audiences needed it most.
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WHRO Time Machine Video is a local public television program presented by WHRO Public Media
WHRO Time Machine Video
The Great Depression In Hampton Roads: Sydney Gates
Special | 1m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
Step inside the grand movie palaces of the Great Depression, where towering screens and glittering box seats offered escape from hard times. From the Roxy Theatre to repeat showings of Scarface, this episode explores how Hollywood thrived when audiences needed it most.
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- In, walked right in.
It was a theater.
It had lots, it had box seats, and it was a, that's the way they built them.
And they, and they were palaces.
The theaters were built a lot different.
They were, you could say that the theater was 300 feet wide by several hundred feet long, and it was a different type of entertainment too.
Of course, I think show business was better in those days.
People were outta work and they always found a way to do something.
They went to the movies, could be on the street.
They went to the movies.
I never thought there was a depression in, in the movie business.
I played at the Roxy Theater, Paul Muni, as original picture called Scarface It.
In fact, every time the rent was due, I'd put that picture in.
I played it 60 times in one year.
Any time I had to pay the bills, I'd just put Scarface on.
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