GREEN BRIAR PICTURE SHOWS - A site dedicated to the great days of movie exhibition
If you’re interested in the antics of vintage Hollywood from the silent era right through into the 60s & 70s, and love reading about when film stars were really stars unlike the majority of today’s lacklustre bunch, and are turned on by amazing rare photographs of practically every actor and actress to grace the silver screen during the golden age of cinema, boy are you going to spend hours of your life on the Greenbriar Picture Show website!

Ostensibly devoted to the days when cinemas exhibited movies with a great sense of flair and fun, it makes you wish some new marketing wunderkind at one of the major Hollywood studios would re-invent the idea and get the showmanship back into movie exhibition where it belongs. I mean, a few cardboard cut-outs and vinyl banners positioned and hung haphazardly by theatre staff who could care less is no way to capture the public’s imagination and drive them into the cinema every week. In 1932 when the Boris Karloff horror flick The Mummy was released, or should that be, went for a little walk, if you passed the cinema where it was showing you would have to have been blind, deaf, and dumb not have realised that an exciting terror fest was taking place inside the darkened theatre. If a time machine was a possible invention then film fans would pass on going back to see real dinosaurs and plumb for sitting in with the first audience to see the 1925 silent version of The Lost World – what an experience, and much safer too!