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Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff.

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here sitting in for Dave, and this is short

stuff about in-flight movies, all the great stuff that you can watch when you fly with your

favorite airline. Yeah, and this is something that you can watch when you fly with your favorite airline.

Yeah, and this is something that if you've been flying for a number of years, has changed quite a bit.

Yeah.

I do remember the old days where I didn't fly a lot growing up at all, like I think I flew one time before I went to college.

And then not even a lot after that, because I was always broke.

But I did go on a couple of flights back in the day where they had the one movie being shown for the entire plane.

And there were these big, huge, like, Volkswagen Beetle-sized monitors that dropped down from the ceiling like every 10 rows right in the

middle and maybe 30% of the flight could get a good angle on that screen. Yeah. And if you were

lucky, you were close to that one big screen version that was like broadcast or shown on like

the wall. Oh yeah, yeah. In the middle rows. Yeah yeah that was how we used to watch movies everyone

watched the same movie at the same time you plugged in your headphones that were like hydraulics

if i remember correct yeah yeah air travel episode like just through a tube yeah and you watch that same

movie and because there's all sorts of different people with all sorts of different tastes, the movie you saw was radically different from the movie that, um, that you would find on,

like your, at your, um, video store. Yes. For sure. One movie, whole plane. Um, we will tell you the

very first in flight movie, believe it or not, was in

1929. It was a newsreel in a couple of cartoons on a transcontinental air transport flight.

Right. But real deal movie service started in the early 60s. This comes from variety and CNN and

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