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The current practice of presenting feature films as installments in a single story cycle recalls the old one- and two-reel serials that used to precede the main attraction in the pretelevision era of moviegoing.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2010

Movie attendance during the 1974-75 recession boomed to the highest level since pretelevision days, as people apparently flocked to films to forget their worries about inflation and unemployment.

From Time Magazine Archive

But gone, most of all, is the innocent wonderment of the pretelevision era�the squeals of delicious terror, the yelps of helpless laughter�that used to rock the Big Top before Howdy-Doody came on the scene.

From Time Magazine Archive