Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Coming up short
Today's film was actually a compendium of gay shorts.
I am not sure where such work is distributed or shown. Certainly film festivals.
But short movies do not exist anymore in theaters unless somehow, somewhere one of those rerun places manage to do it.
Here we go. Nostalgia. When I was a kid, movies were 90 minutes long. There were always shorts.
Before television, there was the newsreel. Changed every week. Also news magazines on film. Time Marches On. Cartoons of course. Travelogues. Yes, they were called that. Comedies. Some comedians made their reputations with them. Edgar Kennedy, Abbot and Costello (although they were able to overlap with television), many silent stars who could not carry a feature.
Now, the only thing shorter than the main feature, in fact the only other thing, are ads or trailers. Or ads.
This is certainly one reason that I quit going to movies. Many more. But with DVD there are no shorts. Until recently. And here they are in a number of compilations which I won't list. They are easily obtained through Amazon or some other web outlet. There are no DVDs except special interest ones. Today's are gay. There are others with music videos and so on.
