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Vintage movie posters at Atlanta International Airport

04/13/10
Movie fans: If you’re traveling to or through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) between April 23rd and May 23rd, make your way to the airport’s Atrium Gallery, where a collection of original, hand-painted, vintage movie posters featuring Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich and other stars will be on display. “Atlanta’s famed Loew’s Grand Theater →

Tidbits for travelers: lost luggage, found privacy, & contests

11/05/09
A little bit of this ‘n that today. (No one is walking off with this bag!) The story out of Phoenix about a couple who managed to steal more than 1,000 pieces of luggage from the baggage claim carousels at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is alarming, for sure. But we shouldn’t be surprised.  While →

Let’s all go to the movies

03/03/09
It would be great if we could watch movies – cartoons, short subjects, mini-docs, etc. – at the airport.  For free (of course).  Given how long we all spend at airports these days, there’s often time to watch full-length features as well. Instead, we often watch films in-flight.  And as I wrote here a while →

Future Academy Award-winners on Delta?

02/23/09
Have a little Oscar fever? Then check out the possible Academy Award-winners of the future on an airplane – or on-line – courtesy of Delta’s Fly-In Movies. Five short film finalists were selected by programmers of the upcoming 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and will be shown, for free, from March 1 through April 12 on →

More ways to see movies at the airport

08/15/08
Not only has redbox (see below) begun serving airports, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that Atlanta-based Flexplay Entertainment has teamed up with Hudson News Co. to offer “time-limited” DVD rentals at airports throughout North America. Beginning in September, Hudson news stands and Hudson Booksellers at many airports will begin selling DVDs that, once removed from →

Airport movie rentals go red

08/15/08
For a while now, the folks at InMotion Entertainment have been renting DVDs and portable DVD players at about 30 airports around the country. Travelers can pick up a player and a movie in one city and drop everything off at their destination. If there’s no InMotion outlet where they’re going, everything can be dropped →

Films, fashion and flying

05/16/08
The Cannes Film Festival runs through May 25th and Air France, the festival’s official air carrier, has posted intriguing new film-related material on a special site. Poke around and you’ll find excerpts from films “starring” Air France as well as a gallery of photos showing actors and actresses such as Audrey Hepburn, Buster Keaton and →
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