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iPhone or Airplane? The Worst Way to Watch a Movie

January 7th, 2008 by Scott Marks

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This 1964 ad for TWA boasts that for an extra two-bucks, they’ll throw in a full-length movie. There’s nothing more conducive to cinematic fulfillment than screaming, uncontrollable infants and flying waitresses jockeying their meal carts between you and the screen. This could be worse than Chicago’s old Lincoln Village Theatres 7 & 9!

At least this was in the pre-home video era. They would actually set up 16mm projectors on board and run a print for your in-flight entertainment! (Remember Jerry Lewis’ hilarious spoof of in-flight entertainment in The Family Jewels?) God knows how many prints were trashed because the umbday stewardess couldn’t correct the loop after the film hit a bad splice. More bobbing and fluttering than later period Katherine Hepburn.

As for holding your portal to cinema in your palm…I’ll let David Lynch speak for me.

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