Century (Syufy) Theaters clapping policy trailer

[bhorde2k]

OMG..I've been thinking about this for sometime recently and I just HAD to see if I can find it. Thank you, panaflex.

[7mandoblu]

Sniff, sniff, reminds me of when I was a little kid going to the movies and seeing this as the lights went down.

[twerk421]

My 1st trip to the theatres was ET @ UA Sunrise Mall when I was 3. But Cinedome was always my and my family's favorite. I saw Top Gun, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Batman, Speed, Alien 3, and dozens of other films there bought dozens of toys from that same vendor for years. My 1st "date" in 5th grade was a double date and we saw "My Blue Heaven" there.

My 1st act as a good samaritan was helping a woman in a wheelchair up the incline of one mezzanine.

[eyeh8nbc]

@twerk421 I've never been to the UA Sunrise, but I'm always amazed it's still open. They were idiots for tearing down the Cinedome and replacing it with that cracker-box theater with all common-width screens. They didn't even care about hiring experienced people- I applied for a job there after it opened (had 10 years theater experience) and was only offered a minimum-wage slave job, my experience counted for nothing! They've been changing over to digital now anyways, and I'll have a better job.

[Reborn8303]

My favorite Century theater was the Cinema Dome, In the city of Orange Ca

[pho4ray]

you know this always pumped me up for the movie before it started. the music for some reason always made it exciting and made it more anticipating....how i miss the 80s. a time of happiness in life when there was way less violence and life was just about having fun. now we are all dying just to make a buck and the end is near...80s FOREVER!!!!! thanks for posting..

[DaltonSR20DET]

oh damn! thanks for the nostalgic memories. My days were at the Century Plaza 10 in South SF but got closed down and moved over to Tanforan Mall.

[tripjet999]

Smoking should have been permitted....NOWHERE!

BAN SMOKING EVERYWHERE, NOW!

[dannyboylee]

CLAP CLAP CLAP! CLAPCLAPCLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP!

[blueknob5538]

Which Century theater did you work? I worked at C-24 and C23 for 8 yrs.

[Reborn8303]

@blueknob5538 which city ?

[InBradyITrust]

OMG YES!!!! I've told so many people about this -or asked them if they remembered this opening- Totally excited to see it again. Since this advertisement I have yet to see the audience get involved in the movie mood together. The clapping was classic because people actually took part in it together like a family watching a movie :P I still have like 100 old movie ticket stubs from the 80's...I know, nerd right? :P

[danieltulloh]

I loved that song. Been looking for it for years! Thanks.

[jreafsnyder]

Man, memories are rushing back from many a summers day watching movies with my friends at the Cinedome in Orange. That, by far, was the best movie theatre in the world. I saw 70mm prints of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, 2010, T2, and so on. I wish they didn't tear the domes down.

[Reborn8303]

@jreafsnyder Yep me to that theater was Awesome !

[MikeAM78]

Do know when the transition was from this one to the flying ticket trailer? That's the one I remember the most, but I do recall this one from when I was really little, in the early-/mid-80s.

I also recall the audience clapping not really beginning until about the mid-90s or so, at least the Mountain View Century Theaters I most frequented, and then the flying ticket trailer got new "unclappable" music maybe in 1998 or so.

[InBradyITrust]

@MikeAM78

Are you kidding? We clapped to this all the way through the 80's!

[MikeAM78]

@InBradyITrust Well, like I said, at the Century theater I went to the most often, I don't remember the clapping starting until sometime in the '90s, when the updated version with the flying ticket started being used.

[AnnainCA]

What a blast from the past! I think this trailer was still in wide rotation at various Peninsula theaters in the early-mid 90s.

[OppenEdit]

I was born in the mid 86 and this trailer went away by the mid 90's and everyone I asked about it thought I was insane. Thank you so much I thought I'd take this memory to my grave.

[powerpuffgir1]

Century 22, 23 and 24 on Winchester Blvd. in the 60s, 70s and 80s. This clapping trailer I recall mostly from the 80s...the entire audience would clap-clap-clap to it. Fun memories. I don't live in San Jose anymore, but I think Century 25 by Westgate closed down (?). I miss those days!

[8124817S]

Tanforan Century Plaza 8 in So. San Francisco way back. . . So many early 80's movies!

[powerpuffgir1]

How special for you

[TubeDude2000]

I miss hearing the clapping, I think we looked forward to that more than the movie sometimes. My friends and I worked for Syufy in San Jose during the late 80s. Good times!

[katkombat]

hey they have a century cenimark theatres in iowa cool and was syufy owned by cenimark that long ago too please tell

[prfsnlwannabe]

Nope, you have it wrong about Syufy. Cinemark Theaters bought Syufy/Century Theaters a few years ago.

Century I believe did open 1 or 2 theaters in Iowa, right before the Cinemark merger happened.

[benitoite408]

I remember how everyone would sing and air drum along. We got so out of control-- we used to play this in band class to annoy the teacher.

[Hippodemus]

Panaflex, can't thank you enough. Experiencing this again brought tears to my eyes. Bygone days!

[InsaneDavid]

THANK YOU!  So many memories of summers at Century 21, 22, and 23 in San Jose.

[Newtamaki]

do you have the new current century theater search light opening?

[panaflex]

Unfortunately no.

[ricflairjrs4]

I spent many afternoons as a kid at the Red Rock theatre in Vegas humming along to this tune. Very Cool!!!

[adrianmh76]

best thing I've found on youtube. PEROID!

[Ooods]

Oh, my goodness!!!! That was so fun! Yea, I remember those days! (San Jose, CA)

[Newtamaki]

same here

[richiegecko79]

Oh my gosh...the memories. This trailer used to play in the Syufy theatres here in Las Vegas, NV back in the 80's.

Thank you for posting this.

[AdamJ617]

I grew up in Massachusetts. I think this music was used at USA Cinemas back in the mid-late 80's.

[goaliepam]

How fantastic!  Spent many summer nights standing in line to see the blockbuster of the week outside the Orange Cinerama Dome. The clapping was the best part. Thanks for posting this. Brought back some great memories.

[kevko24]

having worked at century 22 in san jose the summer of '93 i remember the film fondly. even though i went to the movies weekly, i only saw two people ever do the clapping ... i missed out

[tigerwhite007]

More cinemas should feature this

[panaflex]

film weave. It was slightly warped from being in storage. The camera was on a tripod.

[cartoonyboy]

I want to start collecting policy trailers!

[brndace]

It looks GREAT!

Do you have the Century trailer with the flying ticket?

[panaflex]

unfortunately no. I found this unused print in an abandoned film lab years ago. I just projected it in my living room and videotaped it off the screen. I have some other theater policy  trailers that I'll post eventually.

[benitoite408]

Thanks for getting it to youtube!

[baller3994]

@panaflex do you happen to remember where that film lab was by any chance?

[Manafichu]

@brndace It was uploaded by Preshow69 and is in the related videos if you want to see it!

[PeemerEric]

OMG so many memories. Singing along to this was always one of the best parts of movies at the Century 10.

[lunarfuzz]

I feel a deep NEED to respond to this, and thanks you so much for posting this! I worked for Syufy in Sacto & South SF, and this music was the soundtrack to a great time in life - bom bom BOOOOMMMM - da da da DA DA DA!!!

[kristofer916]

I remember seeing this up into the mid 90's. It was a little different, the Suffy was replaced with "Century" and some of the wording was dofferent but the music and anamation was the same. I miss the policy trailer spliced onto the film, it's all video now

[haiderodes]

Memories!

[smosh1212]

I have been looking for this for 10 years. There was a local punk band, The Gizzards, that captured the awesomeness of this song in their own version. No recordings of them that I know of. Actually, I hated the clapping, which ruined the groovin jam and solid beat that starts at :40. Thanks for the post!

[theREALshragon]

man, they should bring it back!! so ol skool and so cool! the clap was awesome!

[disneyfan85]

But they'd have to cut out the "smoking is permitted only the lobby" part, though, and replace it with "Please no smoking at any time in the building."

[eyeh8nbc]

I worked very briefly at a Century theater in 1992 and they were still using this trailer- even then it was ancient- but they had hand-spliced out the "Smoking Permitted" part, so there was always a loud splice at that point. I guess they didn't think that was a big deal, since the rest of their presentation was just as crappy, or worse.

Wonder if the dome theater shown here was cut in half? ;)

[CMLion]

I remember when the clapping first started: at a 'dry run' of a film. It was all such a big joke. The company thought it was "neat." In fact, when they were working on the 'flying ticket' policy trailer, they wanted to keep the music. It took a number of us to convince them they were being mocked.

[andybeals]

And I remember when it died, with the "new" trailer. Bastards. It was <b>fun</b>!

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Yes, the stupid music was being mocked, but the audience enjoyed it. The "new" trailer had the same rhythm so us old-timers could still clap, but so very few did.

[disneyfan85]

I remember that because I lived in San Jose during when they had these.

[danno49]

clap-clap-clap - CLAP-CLAP-CLAP! - Thanks for the memories! Just terrific!

[eyeh8cbs]

This triggers many bad movie-going memories!