so at what point do we bring intermissions to films like we do for plays https://t.co/NMja4O4Xv0

— kenzie (looking for work era) (@pk_kenzie) October 29, 2022

Bring back intermissions for films, that is. They were common into the 1970s. The drive-in theater I went to in the very early 1980s had them. I saw The Black Hole there in 1980 sometime and it definitely had one. By the way, The Black Hole is the first film of any kind I recall seeing.

Intermissions are still common for films in many other countries, too. The difference is that in the US we’re willing to make the entire experience worse so someone can get slightly richer, thus killing the film intermission.