These movies can give you major nostalgia.
No matter their subjects, films are snapshots of the place and time they are made, and of people in them, captured forever.
When we look back at old movies, we’re getting a window into what life was like in an earlier era, even if the film is totally fictional. A 1950s sci-fi film about the future, for example, does not capture the actual future, but it the future would look like — and it could also include actual technology of the age passed off as futuristic gadgetry.)
Fiction movies can also capture flashes of popular culture, fashion trends, and actual consumer products — many of which no longer exist. It’s that last category that forms the subject of this latest ScreenCrush list. It contains 20 different defunct products, stores, and services. Once upon a time they were all extremely common. Today, all of them are essentially extinct. That lends an extra twinge ofto the movies below.
(Then again, you could bring the past back to life by heading to eBay and buying a still-sealed bottle of Jolt Cola from the 1980s to open and drink.
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