Yep, film camera. It was a gift in '02, just before digital really caught on. Though, as my dad points out, there's a lot less chance of it ever having backwards compatibility problems.
Sounds like the stuff I was reading about in the American theater in the antebellum era, although as far as I could tell there was no particular audience participation apart from the fact that the audience didn't feel obliged to hold its opinion to itself, and I didn't get the feeling that the overdramatic tropes were played any way but straight.
Yeah, it's like I can find the origins, but not melodrama in its current form.
We were instructed before each play to cheer the hero, sigh romantically for the heroine, boo the villain, and hiss the villainess whenever each walked onstage. They'd even pause for us to do our thing. The tropes were lampshaded mercilessly and played for laughs.
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Is that a Puddleglum icon? Do you take real pictures?
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Yes, that is a Puddleglum icon. He's one of my favorite Narnians.
What do you mean by "real"?
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Not that that helps at all, but you know.
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We were instructed before each play to cheer the hero, sigh romantically for the heroine, boo the villain, and hiss the villainess whenever each walked onstage. They'd even pause for us to do our thing. The tropes were lampshaded mercilessly and played for laughs.
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