“Let’s All Go To The Lobby” is an animated short from the 1950’s that was played before movies and during drive-in intermissions.
This advertisement is beyond catchy. It’s hard to get it out of your head. Plus, who doesn’t want to see singing popcorn, candy, and a drink? I KNOW I DO!
I see this occasionally at the theater when they are showing an older movie.
In 1957 Chicago-based Filmack Studios released the trailer animated by the producer of Popeye, Dave Fleischer, as part of a series of similar Technicolor shorts to promote the newly installed concession stands in theaters across the country.
Filmack has continued selling copies in the decades since its production. The company estimates that 80% of independent theaters have screened the film at various points.
In 2000, “Let’s All Go to the Lobby” was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
So everyone… Let’s Go Out To The Lobby!!!!
Let’s All Go To The Lobby
Let’s all go to the lobby
Let’s all go to the lobby
Let’s all go to the lobby
And get ourselves a treat
Delicious things to eat
The popcorn can’t be beat
The sparkling drinks are just dandy
The chocolate bars and nut candy
So let’s all go to the lobby
And get ourselves a treat
Let’s all go to the lobby
And get ourselves a treat
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Darn – now it’ll be in my head all day, and so unhealthy!
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But but but… the food sings!
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This post brings back some wonderful memories.
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I wanted something different and I remembered seeing this last year when I went to see Superfly.
I remember it as a kid in the 70s.
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I was JUST talking about this! My buddy and I were talking about Drive-In movies and I started singing this. Great post!
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This is such a good one. I don’t mind having it stuck in my head. 🙂
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I know…I was laughing so hard when I wrote it because I couldn’t get it out of my head…but that was fine.
Oh…congrats on your Chiefs!
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Haha! It makes me anxious for our drive-in to open for the season. It’s only a month away now.
About the Chiefs, thanks! Last year I posted about them before the AFC championship game and then they lost. This year I got superstitious and didn’t post anything.
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That is cool that you are only a month away now.
I don’t blame ya! I’m like that with the Dodgers.
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all that’s missing is a dancing hot dog! Probably more entertaining than a quarter of the movies that ran afterwards!
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Dave… THAT is the comment of the short year so far!
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Lol I used to love this cartoon. They played it before movies at the two-screen discount cinema in the suburbs of the city I grew up in in the 80s and 90s. I still catch myself singing it now and then out of the blue.
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Yep I came to age in the 80s…I just liked older stuff. I do remember this a few times at the cinema also.
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I loved this film. I also love that you are irreverent enough to post this blog.
I LOVE IT.
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My middle name is irreverent! No I always thought this was so much fun! I love this.
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