Fred's Fun Fact About Movie Trailers

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The fread show is on friend's fun Fact Fred Fund.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
But if you didn't, you're gonna be very interesting today
when you go to the movies, I mentioned you went
to an actual movie here? Oh I just went yep, okay,
I guess Air was the last movie I went to.
Oh yeah, a little date night. Yeah, we had a
date night. It was great. Went to some weird place
before and it was yeah, at dinner it was weird.
I think about that place a lot more. I'm not
going to say the place because I don't want to

(00:35):
do that, but it was very strange. It was like
we walked in, they were like, what are you doing here?
What you need something from us? Like, yeah, actually we're
here for food, and yeah we're here for subsidence please.
But movie trailers the show before the movies. Yes, they
used to show after the feature film, which is why

(00:56):
they're called trailers. Jason, Oh would probably leave. They used
to trail the main attraction. The first trailer premiered in
nineteen twelve. It was for a Broadway show, The Pleasure Seekers,
not a movie. Gradually, trailer started spreading in popularity. They
were produced by theaters themselves. In nineteen sixteen, the movie
studios took the reins, and so you're right. I would

(01:18):
not wait until the end of the movie and then
all the credits to watch a trailer. I would not
do that. But now when you go in, you're forced
to watch, you know, however many minutes of trailers.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
And a lot of the times now with superhero movies,
you're forced to watch all the credits because there's you know,
little easter eggs at the end. Oh yes, sorry scenes
at the end to s.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, I don't know what they are because my asn't gone,
sus things start rolling, I'm like, nope.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Because there's pre post credit mid credits scene.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Soon hits, I'm like, I gotta go Nope, not stand.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
More.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
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