Jump to content

Let's All Go to the Lobby

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 65.93.27.191 (talk) at 20:24, 29 December 2005. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Let's All Go to the Lobby (also called The Clock) is a 1957 musical animated short feature. In fact, it was an advertisement, showing singing and dancing hot dogs, popcorn boxes, candy bars, etc., which was used during intermissions to entice theater patrons to visit the snack bar. The refreshments sang their refrain, "Let's all go to the lobby to get ourselves a treat", while a clock marked time until the next feature started.

It was produced by the Filmack Corporation and used in thousands of theaters. In 2000 the United States Library of Congress deemed the short "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

A similar film directed drive-in theater patrons to the snack bar. Such shorts are still used for this purpose.

The film is parodied in The Simpsons episode "Burns's Heir" in which Mr. Burns sings and dances with the snacks.

Stub icon

This short film–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Let%27s_All_Go_to_the_Lobby&oldid=33159563"