Fotomat

This is back in the days when they would do film and processing.

So everybody who took pictures went to a camera shop to get their, or the Fotomat.

Remember the Fotomat?

Oh, yeah, that little, uh, little building.

Those are all coffee shops now.

No, I had a girlfriend that one time s- said she worked at the-

Fotomat?

It was in Longs Drugs-

Oh

And I, uh, I told Lear, "Let's get out of here.

Let's see if we can get to, get into Las Vegas and get to a Fotomat." And that's, those were little kiosks that were out in parking lots of gro- you know, of shopping centers, where you didn't even have to get out of your car to po- process your film.

You drive up to it, they'd hand you an envelope, you'd throw your film in there, you tick, tick the, uh, claim check off, you write your name, whatever, seal it up and give it back to them.

Come back the next day and it's processed.

But, uh, we got there.

We have a quick bite.

We're heading back to Vegas and John s- you know, John said, "Well, we won't get, we won't get there in time to go to a Fotomat.

But I have a, I have a new friend just moved up here from, uh, Albuquerque.

Disney at that time really was all about the theatrical business, uh, movies in theaters, and now they had this packaged goods item, which was videotapes.

You know, 'cause it was kind of coming off the era of, I mean, depending on, you know, your age, this may make sense, Blockbuster or Fotomat.

People were renting videos, and this was the first chance to actually own a movie, to create a library, and that business was in its infancy.

And so I think, you know, I give credit to Ann Daly, who was the president of the division at that time, to know that they needed to do more than just sort of photocopy the theatrical marketing plan.