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These are wonderful. They're so full of character. But I must imagine a "screening" on a TV would be a terrible experience to watch. I guess if you had never been to a full movie theater, you'd never know what you were missing out on.

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It’s a much more communal experience. Less screen, sure, but a lot more audience participation

I grew up with VHS tapes on CRT screens. It was totally fine, I watched more movies back then than I do today.

In Czechoslovakia ~ 1988, video players were rather expensive and complicated to acquire, so we as kids watched movies from cassettes together as well, at the homes of the few who were rich enough to afford them.

One of those parents was a truck driver who was able to cross the Iron Curtain and always smuggled something interesting back.

Yea, also often the movies were cams from people that recorded in the theater so you can see the audience walking around etc.

Quality hardly matters when the real treasure was getting the movie in the first place.

My best movie experiences were probably watching hard to acquire bootlegs in the pre-digital age. The barriers were just so much higher, half the excitement was just getting a crappy copy.

I had Star Wars in VHS, with the most ridiculously awful Spanish subtitles you can imagine. I wish I still had it, or had some pictures at least :_)

In my language we call it "insitné umenie" (or naive art), it usually means self-taught. https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Insitne+umenie&FORM=HDR...

Some other artists in this genre: Henri Rousseau (France), Niko Pirosmani (Gruzia), Edward Hicks (USA)

More paintings by Pirsomani AKA Pirsomanashvili

https://www.wikiart.org/en/niko-pirosmani/all-works#!#filter...

Tons of life in these.

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