A Golden Age for Film Lovers

When I was growing up in the 1950s, my family’s only choice for movies was the local movie theater. It offered a B-movie from Monday to Wednesday and an A-movie from Thursday to Sunday. If there was a double feature, a B-movie would be added to each offering. Once a movie’s run at the theater was finished, it was gone, not to be seen again at our request, and only to be seen if a low-budget theater or a television station picked it up.

Even with the demise of DVDs (“The DVD’s Demise Leaves Many Films Gone With the Wind” by Ted Rall, op-ed, April 28), the availability and convenience of movie-viewing has taken a quantum leap from the days of my youth. Mr. Rall sees the glass as half-empty. I see it as half-full.