[[Noises and background talking throughout the tape]] Marella Mayberry McDavid: -- later before we could do that, or had those. Pearl Bowser: Right, those were--
Pearl Bowser: --Do you remember any of the movies that they were showing in the church? Were they-- you said your brother went?
Marella Mayberry McDavid: I didn't go to too many movies back then. I remember going to the movies in the 30s,
Marella Mayberry McDavid: but that was down in the little town.
Pearl Bowser: Mm huh. Louise Spence: Mm huh. Can you tell us what that was like?
Marella Mayberry McDavid: I was lookin' on this movie here and I don't remember Blacks too much being in the movies; playin our parts.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: I called it "market parts." You know, like playin' like a dog or somethin' like that. [[loud background noise]]
Marella Mayberry McDavid: I don't remember really being cast in those movies.
Louise Spence: So-- Marella Mayberry McDavid: It might have been, but I don't remember seeing them.
Louise Spence: Uh huh. Marella Mayberry McDavid: All I remember seeing was white playing in them. Louise Spence: Yeah.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: I never remember a scene. No blacks either,
Marella Mayberry McDavid: till. Well, when [[inaudible]] first came out, we didn't have too many blacks.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: I'm from New York. Can y'all remember when TV first came out? Louise Spence: Yeah, sure. [[Cross talk]] Marella Mayberry McDavid: You do?
Louise Spence: 1950 Marella Mayberry McDavid: 1960s? Louise Spence: 50! 1950. We didn't know that early.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: 1950? Louise Spence: We couldn't afford to buy a television set. Louise Spence: Well, sometimes they had them in bars then. Not too many families had them.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: Yeah. I think we had a TV in 1950. And in 1958 four; three or four of 'em.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: I remember we had a TV. I was staying with my niece.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: They were younger. They had a TV.
Louise Spence: You kept saying before that you went into the small town? Was that Canton, to see the movies?
Marella Mayberry McDavid: Yeah. Louise Spence: Would you tell us a little more about that theatre?
Marella Mayberry McDavid: Uh, it was a theatre owned, I guess, naturally all of um
Marella Mayberry McDavid: were owned by white folks at that time. There wasn't no black owning no TV, I heard.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: I heard somebody say a while ago that someone said that TV's-- that a lot of TV's was owned by black, and that was kinda news to me.
Marella Mayberry McDavid: But I think they was sayin' 'bout Blacks now; here.