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Interview With Ruth Watsley
I interviewed my grandma, Ruth Watley. She is 68 years old. The first movie she remembers seeing was “Invitation to Life” in June of 1952. Her first experience with the movies was tragic for her because of the film that she saw. She did not fully understand the movie and many of the problems the main character faced haunted her for some time. She did not go to the movies again until 1964 when she started attending the movies every weekend. The price of movies was 75 cents for one person and $1.00 for a car load. “We would hide in the trunk and fit as many people as possible in, so that we could get in for the price of one person rather than a carload… 25 cents was a lot of money back then,” she said.
The first color film she saw was “The
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