Īfter the quick failures of these early attempts at home viewing, most feature films were essentially inaccessible to the public after their original theatrical runs. Some very popular films were given occasional theatrical re-releases in urban revival houses and the screening rooms of a few archives and museums. Beginning in the 1950s, most could be expected to be broadcast on television, eventually.
During this era, television programs normally could only be viewed at the time of broadcast. Viewers were accustomed to the fact that there was no easy way to record television shows at home and watch them whenever desired. In 1924, Kodak invented 16-mm film, which became popular for home use, and then later developed 8-mm film. In the case of the 16-mm format, most of these were available with an optical soundtrack.Īfter that point, the public could purchase a film projector for one of those film formats and rent or buy home-use prints of some cartoons, short comedies, and brief "highlights" reels edited from feature films. Some entire feature films in 16-mm could be rented or bought. The 8-mm films almost never ran longer than 10 minutes only a few were available with a magnetic soundtrack late in the life of the format.
The Super 8 film format, introduced in 1965, was marketed for making home movies, but it also boosted the popularity of show-at-home films. Eventually, longer, edited-down versions of feature films were issued, which increasingly came in color and with a magnetic soundtrack, but in comparison to modern technologies, film projection was still quite expensive and difficult to use.
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