@Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 days agoTIL the term 'blockbuster' came from a time when blocks of ice in front of a fan were used to cool movie audiences. A large audience required more cooling thus "busting" the block of ice.www.cbc.camessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL the term 'blockbuster' came from a time when blocks of ice in front of a fan were used to cool movie audiences. A large audience required more cooling thus "busting" the block of ice.www.cbc.ca@Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 days agomessage-square2fedilink
minus-square@Diddlydee@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish1•3 days agoThat’s an Elizabethan thing. The posh folk could have a private box to sit apart from the riff-raff, and tickets for the box were sold from the box office.
How about box office?
That’s an Elizabethan thing. The posh folk could have a private box to sit apart from the riff-raff, and tickets for the box were sold from the box office.