Snack Bar Clock - intermission trailer

[yes350yes]

I grew up going to the drive in enjoying all these such as the clock and all the food ads and the heavy speakers which hang on your window or door and usually the sound was very scratchy thru these but who cared.

[cloud3074]

This clip was shown in the 60s at the Lafayette Rd. Drive-in Indianapolis In.

My Brother and I grew up watching this little guy eat!

[SteveCarras]

Nice use of "Lady of Spain".

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

man i need to make a response video

[MerleOberon]

All those treats would cost about $75 now..

[yes350yes]

This is a good one the one I remember seeing more than any other. most drive ins would always show the first one over again, but if you have a drivein now adays they dont.

[awaseniu]

I think this particular one was mentioned in the Broadway Show Grease. In the song ALONE AT A DRIVE IN MOVIE Danny sings "and when the intermission elf moves the clock's hands, while he's eating everything sold at the stand." Unfortunately, the song was changed in the movie.

[GateStudios]

Don't ever play "Lady of Spain" again!

[crazybobdj]

The Hungry Dwarft was play @ the Circus drive-in theatre on the White Horse Pike, near Hammanton, NJ, in the early sixties. The screen is still there. ..lots of trees!

I'm looking for a clock that had a claymation chef rolling out like a ball. They played that one @ the Atlantic drive-in (south Jersey) around 1969-70, when I started working there

[GreggleVision]

The show will start in 5 minutes.

The show will start in 4 minutes.

The show will start in 3 minutes.

The show will start in 2 minutes.

The show will start in 1 minutes.

The show will start in 10 minutes.

[mhirtes12]

An hour later, we get an intermission short of him on the john, straining for ten minutes to grunt out all that garbage he ate.

[streetcarjay]

That would be funny!!

[streetcarjay]

After 10 minutes, wouldn't you get sick of seeing a stupid elf stuffing his face??

[ClaraStrange]

I was in love with him when I was little... how sick

[mjd001]

Lemme Guess - 1951?

[mhirtes12]

More like 1931 by the looks of it.

[firexsound]

im surprised that instead of two chocolate bars they didnt make him eat pop corn

[firexsound]

sure show a little guy just eating candy infront of everyone, i think they want you all to go to the lobby

[bumsmith]

Maybe thats why the drive in got so trashed. The little guy throws his trash on the ground so we can too !

[psychoweird]

All that food put away, he doesn't gain

a pound and that's because the little

fella has one zizzybaloobah of a

METABOLISM!!

[mhirtes12]

Our local drive-in was torn down to make way for a "server farm" run by Google. Progress? Pheh!

[vitaphreak]

All that eating, and that little guy DOESN'T get any fatter?!

[xcellant]

The only time me and the wife came up for air :}

[riceboy1701e]

@xcellant WOOHOO!!!!!! Good times!

[ILUVLUCY4EVR]

Oh man, this sure brought back great childhood memories!  Thanks so much for posting :-)

[DriveinProjectionist]

What we need for our drive-in which is still operating in Australia. We would love to love to obtain a 35mm copy of these old intermission promos, if only for the patrons entertainment value.

[nebulax]

If you go to the site these videos came from - drive-infilm(dot)com, they have a large variety of 35mm clips available.

[yes350yes]

Yes I remember the countdown clock too and Im glad you posted this one for I remember the final "and now on with the show" which the other ads dont have. thanks for posting .

[blastingrod]

I miss the old drive-ins very much but, you see, they

had to go the way of the dinosaur to make room for the

cool new technologies like DVD disks, Ipods and...

YouTube...where the internet goes to get better!!

[fromthesidelines]

This was originally a 10 minute "countdown", and was first seen in theaters during the early '50s. Note how many times our on-screen elf wolfs down the same snacks in the complete version. He also makes like Jackie Gleason {"And away we go!"} at the one-minute mark before grabbing the ice cream cone. This was originally shown in black & white, 'torgman'. Great production music!

[BBIproductions]

This is just painful to watch. I'm serious.

[bearcub410]

love lady of spain . great thanks

[torgman]

So, the elf wolfs down Raisinettes, two candy bars, a soda and an ice cream in a space of five minutes? I'd hate to be his digestive tract!

BTW, was this always on green film?

[torgman]

WAIT! That elf didn't dispose of that wrapper in the proper receptacle!

[odeliagardens]

reminds me of 1930s Warner Bros cartoons.

[japril1]

The thing I liked second best about the old driven-in

[mhirtes12]

I don't know what's more disturbing. The animation of an elf munching, or the animator who had to draw this.

[BondoFox]

I think he enjoyed the end of that 4-minute-to-go candy bar a *little* too much! 8)

THANKS for sharing this!