3 Scenes From Well-Known Films

Here’s three scenes from well-known films, which (mostly) seem to be less remembered in the face of more famous scenes from the same movies.  These all seem to either amaze or terrify kids.

-Not your usual car chase (like more famous one at the end of the movie), this is the Blues Brothers tearing through Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois in 1980. The mall had only been open for a decade before closing a year before this movie shot there. And for that reason, the film crew never bothered to clean up. The building went through 30+ years of decay before finally being torn down.


-Here’s another unusual chase (again, not as famous as the end of the movie): the skateboard scene from “Back to the Future.” What a dream!


-The first moments of sound-on-film dialogue, this is “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!” by Al Jolson. This just comes off as bizarre to kids today, but I always try to soften it by pointing out that Al Jolson was a major influence on the style of David Lee Roth (who also comes off as bizarre today).

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