No idea, probably because the movie theatres forgot about crying babies during movies

I Don't Know.

Because children were kidnapped by criminals

Maybe they figured customers were capable of using common sense. How silly of them.

PLEASE GOD PLEASE FIND A WAY TO BRING BACK FRONT ROW JOE!!!!!

Eraser: This dude is right!

I agree. Front Row Joe is awesome.

It'd make more sense for those who are texting on their phones to turn them off.

I know many adults who seed some God damn thetre etiquette as well

I think he’s better than Cool Cat

Thank you so much for sharing this neat bit of information with us. I'm from the Netherlands so Front Row Joe and even Cinemark itself are totally unknown to me. Yet here I am, discovering this awesome work for the first time. I appreciate the hard work you and your crew put into these and thank you for bringing me and others so much joy with FRJ. Had I experienced these real time in the cinema back then, I'm sure I'd have a blast seeing these over and over again with every cinema visit. It would be very interesting to see (if possible, maybe even 4K) scans of those 35mm prints. You have yourself a support here in case such crowdfunding takes place. I'm sure besides myself, many people would love to see FRJ come to life again through such project too. Also, I've been hunting high and low for FRJ merchandise or animated cells but no luck yet. One more thing, a question: Is there any information about the cast? The cast and the composers/writers are something I'd love love to dig into. Again, thanks for FRJ and the entertainment with it. Best regards, Michael Logmans

Interesting stories from your time working for Cinemark, those letters you got made me chuckle, mainly because I'd love sitting through these before seeing a movie. I hope you can get those prints scanned. Even though there are already print scans of some of these available on KZfaq, some of them have splices, and I'd like to see how yours hold up.

I always loved these trailers going to Cinemark as I grew up, and they're very nostalgic for me. I'm so glad they're on KZfaq now, as media concerning Front Row Joe seems very scarce on the internet. Thank you for the part you had in making them. I was really saddened when Cinemark retired Front Row Joe and co. And I hear you about long preshows today. It's utterly ridiculous. By the time the seemingly endless trailers, product commercials and whatever else has finally finished, often I've actually forgotten what movie I came to see.

hey, if you're ever wanting to sell any of your cels i would absolutely be interesting in purchasing some

I would back that Kickstarter!

Agreed.

Good idea.

But aren't theaters dying though?

@@alphagiga4878 I'd say that only really applies to independent theaters or ones in isolated areas. Most theaters I go to have plenty of customers.

And you thought Zuko has the best redemption arc

TOP 3

Male cartoon characters going pantless while female ones are fully-dressed is quite common from the earliest cartoons to today.

That's how furry characters were designed back then

fun fact :we called her back row ho....

@@charlietrain oi

The Retro Decade Revival Project can help that, along with creating new shorts the old fashioned way.

5:24

And he really doesn’t like it, somehow.

Well he was pretty badly influenced by that jerk, Clyde.

Clyde: It's the neurotoxins. Cake: Shut it, 🅱lyde!

I believe Joe said: “Along with me I’M Front Row Joe”. But it does sound like “and”.

There won't be anymore rigidly animated, lazily drawn cartoons. I'm planning to put together a Retro Decade Revival Project. Our goal is to bring real entertainment, true talent and old school back into the public mainstream, ranging from the 1980s to the Victorian Era.

@Commies Are Bad It's still a work-in-progress. But if you like, you can spread the word to everybody. Here's what you can do; 1. List down which needs to be brought back and which ones won't. 2. Raise funds for the project through Kickstarter. 3. Put an end to rigidly animated, lazily drawn cartoons forever. 4. Eradicate Autotune from the face of the Earth. 5. Restore old school technology to working mint condition, from home game consoles to VCRs. 6. Bring back the old companies, malls, stores, and theme parks you remember from your childhood. I hope you can do it, I'm counting on you and everyone else.

@Commies Are Bad I haven't done the project yet. I'll need all the help I can get. About RKO Radio Pictures, that's a good idea to bring it back, RKO was one of the most prolific film companies in the 1930s.

@@glennjamin We'll get better animation back, the Retro Decade Revival Project will put an end to animators using Flash, Toon Boom, and CalArts butt faces. Our goal is to bring real entertainment, true talents, pure originality and variety, old school, and more back into the public mainstream, starting with the 1980s. Children will love real hand drawn cel animation all over again.

@@glennjamin Not everybody agrees. The procedures of creating hand drawn cel animation is worth the risk.

I'm sure they weren't sure at first before he started to get recognized.

My local ones were green. When it was closing I really wanted to get one because of how iconic they were. Never did, though.

If they still do, that would be great.

My nearest one has IMAX ☺️

Diddo.

really? i saw him in an ad at a cinemark last year

Troy Andrew Yeah, perhaps I just haven't seen him in my parts, and I've been to at least a movie or two last year at a Cinemark-owned Rave Cinema.

Christopher Sobieniak well, it was not just b4 the movie started. It was out in the hallway

Perhaps I didn't notice that in mine then, though it seems like they all use the same materials, whether Cinemark or not (so used to calling them Cinemark than Rave given the exposure).

they do not use him anymore, I do not know the last movie I saw with the intro

I'm very proud of you saying that, I was thinking about the same thing myself. I'm planning to put together a Retro Decade Revival Project. Our goal is to bring real entertainment, true talent, old school, pure originality and diversity and more back into the public mainstream, ranging from the 1980s to the Victorian Era. That means there won't be anymore fart jokes and cheesy movies. If you want to join, be my guest. I'll need all the help I can get.

Don't be a... SALLY SOUNDTRACK

What's wrong with using movie characters in policy trailers?

Happy greetings from America I went to CINEMARK to go see Disney and Pixar's elemental in real d 3d today !

Some of them are very generic and are pretty much just a promotion for their respective movies

UmmYeahOk I KNOW THE MALL YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MUSIC CITY MALL LEWISVILLE

@@SearsCool yep. That’s the one. Vista Ridge in Lewisville. 👍

What if we can reopen that old theater?

@@reneastle8447 the mall has once again changed hands since my comment was made. The theater is still boarded up. The only way we could get it to open is if we offered to pay for the space, even if just for a week. It would seem as though every single movie theater in that town has since closed, some even being bulldozed. This included the drive in that struggled to open, closing right BEFORE COVID when we would need them the most. This leaves the town with only the new(ish) Cinemark in that same mall. I can’t imagine them allowing a second to open within the same property, due to competition issues. It’s a good way to lose BOTH tenants. I had thought about renting it though, for like a Girl Scout sleep over event. 9 years before that mall opened, a smaller one story mall opened several miles up the road. Once a year they’ll have a “Mall Madness” event there, where the girls stay the night, and many vendors stay open till midnight including their own movie theater. The problem is that they want you out of there by 6, meaning you’re waking up at 4am. That’s pretty lame IMO. But Vista Ridge has crappy hours anyway. 11-7 daily, except for Sunday, then 12-6. …for a mall!!! So they wouldn’t need to kick everyone out so early to clean. The problem is, if this theater is truly a time capsule, you can’t exactly allow children to spend an extensive amount of time in an area that hasn’t been cleaned or maintained in over two decades. Think about all the dust, and decay. Even if you wanted to open it as some sort of throwback museum, you’d have to clean it and make it safe, and those theater seats are 30+ years old. They aren’t going to withstand the weight and width of modern humans. What this would be good for is to have an urban explorer film everything for us, maybe even the new mall owners could. But the theater doesn’t even show up as a vacant space on the maps anymore, like it’s not intended to ever be used again by anyone.

@@UmmYeahOk Don't worry, cleaning up and restoring will be the No. 1 priority before reopening.

How about r and NC 17 movies

@@kascnef I heard that they would just have the front row joe surround sound logo and no policy trailer

could just be a nephew he's babysitting but okay

please go

As a Brazilian, that is great to hear!

Have you seen the cgi in The Santa Clause? Try that

Why was Front Row Joe booted at that time? Was it a rebranding of some sorts? Very unfortunate to see what happened in terms of production The legal stuff, the later phase of FRJ with CGI/new animation. Also, who has the rights to the characters and/or the film footage nowadays? I'm just so interested! I've recently learned about FRJ and I'm so hooked. Amazing to see. Thanks in advance~

*you've got a date with Cinemark

Regal has the Rollercoaster, AMC has the circles.

Regal: Rollercoaster AMC: Red Circles Cinemark: Front Row Joe

Corey Lineberry it used to be the ticket guy Clip

AMC is quickly becoming the Disney of movie theatres.

At least it's better than AMC's Filmstrip dude.

But even the AMC's Filmstrip dude is better than a Minion screaming "Illumination, ILLUMINATION" or Bomb's phone making fart noises.

The Hall of Advertising Glad I haven't seen those at Cinemark yet (which is the only chain in my town these days). I do recall the early days of the film strip dude though in the 90's, but honestly, had I had a Cinemark to go to instead, I would've loved these ones!

This is theater's trailers in a nutshell: Cinemark (or at least at the time): Front Row Joe/Soft Piano Regal: ROLLER COASTER!!!!! AMC: FilmStrip Dude Marcus-Krikorian: Lets put in random clips of different movies in with cheezy music and Cheap looking CG. IMO Cinemark wins this one.

Westley West I wouldn't argue there.

Coaster Jackson that’s a cat

I can guarantee you they were. Just as the sun shines and rain is wet. These trailers spoke to some people, heh.

These only played before movies for all ages, not horror films or anything above a PG rating.

@@MaryS2022 I know, but still

@@MaryS2022Taken from The Rugrats Movie (1998)

Holy shit the 80s aesthetic

I don't mind it at all (having lived it)!

@@ChristopherSobieniak I love it, everything 80s aesthetic is perfect.

Jonny Gulmatico me

Dominic Tesch he has some nice cars

Back then that would've been about $20.

Yeah he kinda looks like him

I miss the 80s. A lot.

Me too. And I wasn’t even born at the time.

If they still do today, that would be awesome.

He is

@@Ene-Chan Where? I went to Cinemark on Sunday and I didn't see him

@@SearsCoolits kinda a silent revival he cameos on marketing stuff and there is a costume (but for some reason theres only 1 version of the costume and every cinemark shares it)

Ethan Anania IKR?

06:21 is the one I remember, for the same reason. We didn't have Cinemark up here in Dallas, or at least not that I ever heard of. My first encounter with Cinemark was when I moved down into the Lower Rio Grande Valley and used to go to the one in McAllen, Texas.

I think so because there's Pixar ball and in toy story there Pixar ball as a Easter egg

To me more like Tom and Jerry.

Yeah, I can see that.

They've only really done these... But they're really well-animated.

SMG4 sucks😒

SMG4 is annoying irritating overrated content😒

AMC apparently (though someone from China owns them now). www.ft.com/content/9d353ae8-4820-11e6-8d68-72e9211e86ab

Not for long, he'll make a permanent comeback thanks to the Retro Decade Revival Project. Our goal is to bring old school, real entertainment and true talent back into the public mainstream, ranging from the 1980s to the Victorian Era.

@@reneastle8447 yay

If you're interested in the project, I'll give you a couple of hints. First, we will start the project at the top of a country. Second, each month will represent a golden decade. Last but not least, everybody's going to have fun traveling back in time and bringing real entertainment, old school, true talent, pure originality and diversity and more back into the public mainstream.

I miss a 90s. A lot.