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The Chairman
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Blockbuster Contextualization by The Chairman

August 21st, 2007 7:14 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose a movie that was filmed before you were born, and place a note in the video box at your local video rental store. This note should evoke (not simply describe) daily life at the time the movie was made.

For example, research how much soap, a radio, a car, and a house cost when Star Wars (1977) was filmed. Or write a letter from your 1940's self to a friend, recommending Citizen Kane (1941).

"Dear. Fred,

It’s me Mike. I’m writing you to recommend this new movie “the Time Machine” it was a great movie. I took bertha down to the picture show to see it. only took us about ten dollars for two movie tickets and popcorn. But this move was a whole lot of fun in theatres to bad its not there any more but it should be coming out on the new video tape system, it should be great. If you get the chance pick up this film you defiantly should make sure that you bring someone with you because there is a bunch to talk about. Here is a short synopsis:
From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Watch out for some of the jumpy scenes though, I could barely keep my seat. Don’t you wish that we could go into the future? Just think about it. The year two-thousand, there must be so many fantastic things like flying cars and machines that can make something out of nothing, and maybe machines that can take people back in time? What if there are people that are from the future with us today, wouldn’t that be something. Well Fred have fun with whatever you do and say hello to your brother George for me. Write back soon.

Your Friend-
Mike McCaullister 6/12/1960



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posted by Sean Mahan on August 23rd, 2007 12:30 AM

Pics? If you really put that in a blockbuster or somesuch, I'd vote for it.

Even without pics. . .
posted by Loki on August 24th, 2007 1:07 AM

. . . I'd vote for it with some more detail about placement.

This was printed out on paper? Put into a cassette box? For the 1960 version of Time Machine? At a video store?

For the love of Cthulhu, if you went to the trouble to do the thing, tell us about it!

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posted by .thatskarobot on August 28th, 2007 12:01 PM

Sam, for the love of everything amazing, post pics man!

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posted by The Chairman on October 4th, 2007 1:58 PM

sorry i dont have a camera i was waiting for somebody with a camera to be there with me but nobody ever wanted to do it.