Small things intrigue me

Things like this, for example:

The thing I particularly mean here is the “FULL SYNC DIALOGUE (not dubbed)”. Obviously this was considered important enough (at least in February 1970, when IMDB tells me this thing was released) that the ad mentions it IN CAPITAL LETTERS, but did the people who would’ve been going to see this thing back in the day actually care about that? Here’s another picture of similar vintage:

“Sound is comin”? Sweet! 104 Turk St was so excited by its evident upgrade that it didn’t even feel the need to spell its own signage properly… But what difference did this actually make to audiences? Did the people who normally went to these films give a shit about details like that? Personally I have a slightly weird relationship with porn, in that porn movies interest me mostly as films if you know what I mean, I’m interested in how they fit in with the broader exploitation genre especially during the 60s and 70s, how the nudie films from the start of the 60s turned into the softcore film during that decade and finally into hardcore by 1970, that sort of thing. I’m intrigued to discover the two theatres in the ad opened on the same day and closed the following year. How these films were distributed and shown back then, that’s what interests me. Porn as porn generally does nothing much for me. That’s just me, though, the weird and probably some sort of asexual film history geek…

ANYWAY, never mind that. For the people who did have use for this sort of thing way back when, did little things like sync-sound make a difference to them? Who apart from an admitted idiot like me would’ve been there for that? I’ve seen a handful of examples of 60s sexploiters, some of which were shot silent and otherwise dubbed with music and narration, and as long as the requisite tits were shown I can’t imagine anyone being that fussed about the technical details… I suppose colour might’ve been an attraction over black and white, but even so, I feel somehow like people who frequented dumps like this would’ve been less excited by that sort of thing than your average filmgoer who went to average films at average cinemas would’ve… as long as they got off to whatever was on screen, I presume that was the important thing. I don’t know, maybe I’m exposing (as it were) something of myself here more than anything.