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Karl: Getting back to your question about the movie theaters… We have a friend who does the accounting for the independent theaters around here. One guy owned six theaters. He owned two theaters in Bloomfield, the Lost Picture Show… He owned the one in Montclair on the main street, on Bloomfield Avenue, and the two on Bloomfield Avenue in Bloomfield. The movie theater that made the most money was the Lost Picture Show in Union. It was showing old movies, black and white, foreign films. In answer to your question, if you came up with a theater like that I would say yes, you will make money with that - but not from the kids.
Steve: (to Conrad) I guess you more than all of us have seen the change in theaters.
Conrad: Oh, yeah. Especially in the late 50s. People weren't going any more. Like Karl said, color; that's what brought them back in the 60s. Even if it was bad, they would play [a color film]. If it was black and white, forget it. Like Plan 9, they didn't want to play Plan 9 because it was black and white.
Jennifer: (to Karl) Before my [audiotape] runs out, has anyone in the Newark Council seen Ironbound Vampire yet? Do you not want them to see it?
Karl: No, I would love them to see it. To me, it's nothing derogatory against the city. It's probably a very positive thing because it doesn't show anybody getting shot up or their car stolen. It actually has a story behind it - nothing in the negative.