She has never seen anything like it. From then on it's an hour and a half of towering pyramids, swooping airplanes, roaring waterfalls and death-defying skiers. There's a lot more visual competition today than when Fairburn experienced her first movies at the Warnors. Television is so pervasive that many homes have four or more sets. Our larger multiplex theaters have 20 screens or more.
Video stores offer thousands of movie selections.
Many more choices. Yet in a sense, what we crave most is not the entertainment itself, but the experience. It would have been the excitement of the century. Times change, but not our desire to be wowed. Even today's blockbuster movies are events, not just cinematic exercises.