TIL 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.

@Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 5 days ago

TIL 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.

@ruk_n_rul · 5 days ago

How about box office?

@Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 5 days ago

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.