BoomerByte - The Soundtrack of a Generation
BoomerBytes is an audial pastiche of sounds from the Baby Boomer Era (1940s-1960s). Content consists of public domain government films, PSAs, political campaign materials, and various clips that recall innocent times with a menacing Cold War backdrop. Relive fears of Communist paranoia, teenage social etiquette films, how to survive nuclear warfare as well as historic moments that marked the decades of children growing up in the wake of World War II. Note from Joe Hill; I am NOT "Joe Hill, author and son of writer Stephen King." Joe Hill is my real name and I am not related in any way to the famous labor organizer, Joe Hill.
BoomerByte - The Soundtrack of A Generation - Showman of Horror
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Horror film director William Castle didn't want his audiences to just watch his films. He wanted them to interact with them. He seemed to understand that horror film fans of the boomer type loved to be manipulated in that dark theater on a Saturday afternoon. He often joined audiences (on screen) by appearing at the beginning or ending of his films and serving up some sort of gimmick such as the Mr Sardonicus Mercy Cards handed out by the theater management before the film. His use of "Percepto" during The Tingler, where certain seats in the theater were equipped with vibrating devices so that viewers could feel their own fear was the kind of showmanship that just couldn't last - and so we honor and remember it here in "Showman Of Horror."
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