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Make movies real again

Remember in 1739 when everybody ran out of the theatre when the train came
 
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It never really happened, so 1739 is as good as any year.

Anyway here's the idea. You watch people watching a large plasma tv.

In the TV there are people from the 1970s watching a large tv from the side.

In the 1970's TV they see the movie with the train and the people running away. They laugh. Then they watch the train stop. It goes back. A magician walks out and talks. That wasn't expected he says.

His words are written on the screen with piano music heard in the background. The crowd in the silent cinima begin coming back. The camera in the old movie theater moves a bit to reveal on the left of the screen, part of the piano and its player from the back exposing only her arm and hair.

There's a loud bang, and the piano lady says, oh i'm sorry, i don't know how that happened. A window on the side of the train came off its hinges, and fell out through the movie screen and hitting the piano. its heavy and cracked. The piano player lady gets up and is alarmed. Somebody in the train asks her if she needs help. But there is a thin screen that they cannot pass where the movie screen is.

The magician gets out from the door on the right side draws a square and jumps out through it into the theatre.

I'm sorry, he says. his face is covered with a big sign that says I'm sorry! The piano player jumps up a second time after she sat down again before. How did you... she starts saying But suddenly she's knocked over by a big sign that is being pulled up with names of stars from the past. She gets up, runs to the piano seat and plays the final tuned. THE END.

The guys watching 1970s TV say That was dumb.

The piano music resumes and it says That was dumb.

The magician who seems to be a bit more colorful but not quite walks over to the TV screen and draws a square. Hey, one of the 70's guy yells, The old movie has a sign that says Hey!! Another 70s guy is getting close to the TV starring at it and saying: What the heck is.... just then he gets a slap in the face. Sorry the magician says. I didn't mean to...

There are large captions at the bottom of the 70's TV that say: Sorry I didn't mean to...

A 70's girl with a cowboy hat asks: What on earth is going on? The magician tries to step through the screen but instead is walking on a glass floor above us looking down. Seemingly looking in the wrong place.

The guy that got the slap is saying: But you DID get you hand out here. I felt it. Just as he says it there's a 2nd slap.

The magician says Oh I get it, and jumps out landing on the guy that was hit twice. This is NOT working like I expected says he. I gotta get back and fix this.

Could you help me? He calls to the piano lady.

Where are you? You disapeared she says walking over towards the 70s TV screen and crashes out. The magician says Whats that and looks at you in horror. They are all looking at you with a horified look. They each pause to grab something. A piece of broken glass from the screen. a chair and a bat and they all yell and rush at us.

pashute, Jan 27 2026

frame-breaking https://www.academi...Discourse_of_Satire
Not quite as literal as this, but ... [pertinax, Jan 27 2026]

more frame-breaking https://europeanjou...hr/article/view/275
It's a whole field, it turns out. [pertinax, Jan 27 2026]





       It must have been quite a pizza you had before bed.
Voice, Jan 27 2026
  

       So ... frame-breaking humour.
pertinax, Jan 27 2026
  

       I guessed this was [pashute] about 1/4 the way through
pocmloc, Jan 27 2026
  

       (Psst... I think you mean 1896...)
neutrinos_shadow, Jan 29 2026
  
         


 

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