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I remember seeing this on TV when I was young. For the time the effects were great.

Fun fact, after I first watched it, my father said he saw this in the theaters when first released as a teenager. When I was told this, I did not realize it was in the depression. His family was hit hard by the depression, so for him he probably has to give up something else to see it.

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My dad was born in 1931 and I remember him saying that oftentimes people went to movies in the late '30s just because they had air conditioning and most people did not.

I had assumed movies were perhaps a nickel then — I was thinking of nickelodeons. But Wikipedia tells me the nickelodeon was an earlier phenomena from the decades before the Great Depression [1]. I suppose it's also possible movies were still a nickel in the 1930's but I don't know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_(movie_theater)

Looks like it was maybe $0.12 or so not adjusting for inflation if this chart is to be believed:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/over-100-years-of-averag...

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