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And nobody would get your references (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My dad was a film historian. My entire childhood was filled with movies none of my contemporaries had seen.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My dad wasn't a historian, but he loved old movies and made a point to introduce us to the classics. I've seen so many black and white films that I hardly get to talk about with anyone.

Watching older media is what got me into Star Trek though. TOS specifically, and then TNG much later.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Me too. I grew up on Fred Astaire, Buster Keaton and Eddie Cantor.

I used to have a party trick back in the pre-IMDB days where I'd bring out Leonard Maltin's movie guide, have someone flip to a random page, start reading titles, and I'd stop them before they could get to the end by describing the plot of whichever one I'd seen.

My earliest memory is my parents projecting 2001: A Space Odyssey on our living room wall using a 16mm projector with a Cinemascope lens for a bunch of grad students.

He also had a reel-to-reel recorder that came specifically with one type of Sony Trinitron TV that predated VHS. Of course, once VHS came out, he taped everything. We had all the movie channels.

But my brother was the Star Trek person. My dad was pretty so-so about it.