Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Before home video, movies would roll out slowly, arriving in small towns months after their release date. Since theaters usually had one screen, it would only play for a few days. If a film was a hit, it’d be re-released a few years later. A movie had to be pretty old before it hit TV, and if you missed it, you just missed it.
But if you were fortunate enough to have your own projector, you could buy an illegal copy of your favorite film. It was neither simple nor cheap because there wasn’t any easy way to reproduce bazillions of copies of 35mm or 16mm film, yet there were people who managed to get their hands on films and made quite a profit. Movie theater operator Woody Wise tells how he got started as a movie pirate.“When…
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