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435- The Megaplex!

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.827.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Back in the early 1990s, movie theaters weren't that great. The auditoriums were cramped and narrow, and the screen was dim. But in 1995, the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas changed everything.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is 99% infosible. I'm Roman Mars.

0:07.2

In a world known as the 1990s,

0:10.8

Chancellor Hanz was a skinny kid in Dallas, the new kid at school, and he loved going to the movies.

0:17.1

Yeah, Grew up in Dallas. Favorite past time was to go to the movies. That's literally all I ever did.

0:22.9

I mean, if I had a nothing to do Saturday, which was often I would see at least

0:27.7

three or four movies a day, for sure.

0:32.2

I think I was nine or 10 when I knew I wanted to work at a movie theater,

0:36.6

but I couldn't actually do it until I was like, I don't know, 14 or 15s when they start letting people have jobs.

0:44.2

Chancellor became a projectionist, which if you love movies is a dream job.

0:49.4

When new prints came in, Chancellor would watch them all the way through for hiccups and errors,

0:54.2

staying late alone in the auditorium. But what he really loved was to see movies with other people.

1:00.5

So he would go back to work on his days off and watch the same movies over again with a crowd.

1:06.5

The more packed, the better.

1:08.2

Man, Fridays and Saturday nights were my favorite.

1:12.0

Can you please tell me where your brother's hiding?

1:13.9

Why do you want him?

1:15.9

Because your only brother can prove I'm not a killer.

1:18.1

You don't know any of the people in that room, but you're all on a common ground of how hilarious a scene is

1:24.7

or how scary the scene is, how awesome it is to see Jackie Chan jump through a ladder.

1:28.9

You know what I mean?

1:29.6

Oh my god, I'm just going to the movies.

1:33.6

It's like everybody is on one accord. You don't know that person,

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