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November 9, 2009
er you are, whether it’s an IED [Improvised
Explosive Device — roadside bomb] or a
VBIED [Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive
Device — a car bomb], not knowing if
it’s friend or foe. …
What do you hope this film to do?
To spark conversations and start dialogue.
I think right now there’s a divide. There are
people who know a soldier, who are living
it, and I think there are a lot of people in this
country that don’t. We’re a country at war. I
think it’s important to understand what that
means, as best we can.
Barry Steelman, movie expert
Barry Steelman has been a fixture on the
Concord movie scene for years. He owned
and operated the movie theater Cinema 93
and later owned Cinema 93 Video, which
closed in 2009 (and before Concord, he ran
now-closed theaters in Manchester). Now,
he’s the facilities manager at Red River Theatres,
the independent theater he helped to
bring into existence in Concord. He regularly
organizes film events at the theater, such
as the recent series of Movies about Movies,
that bring together film experts and movielovers.
Amy Diaz spoke with Steelman for the
Nov. 9, 2006, issue of the Hippo.
Were you always interested in the
movies?
Yeah. I can probably remember going to
the movies in 1949, so I was six.
As it became a lifelong passion, what did
you want to do in movies?
As a young person, the dream was to either
be in the movies … [or be] a filmmaker.
In the fall of 1955, Steelman’s grandfather
had a stroke. Steelman’s mother took Barry
with her to visit him, in Worcester, Mass. She
decided to stay longer, keeping Steelman out
of school from October through Christmas
when he was 12. Because of polio scares,
Steelman wasn’t allowed to visit his grandfather
in the hospital during the day.
And guess what I did? I went to the [movie
theaters] in downtown Worcester. … I saw
for the first time Rebel Without a Cause. And
being 12 years old and in the throes of being
disenfranchised a little bit. … When I saw
this movie with James Dean, I said wow, I
can relate to this. …
Steelman worked at Cinema 93, a one-
screen theater, from the late 1960s until it
closed decades later.
How did the economics of the cinema
work over the years? Especially with one
screen.
There were numerous attempts of design
on how to break that up into two screens.
Because it would have made an incredible
amount of difference in my economic welfare.
One screen, you’re sunk, if it doesn’t do
any business. And you’re sunk if it does.
How so?
You had a customer base that … would see
the movie sometimes on day one or day two.
And if you played it for six weeks, they would
get angry because there was no change in the
program. … I played Dances with Wolves
for six months and it was the biggest thing
that I played there. … It was incredibly busy
to begin with. At the end of January, Oscar
nominations came out and it got a shot in the
arm. … A month or six weeks after that, it
won best picture, best director … back the
business went again for another month or
so. Towards the last couple of months of the
engagement I was sneaking [other] things in,
showing matinees … I didn’t want to give it
up because on weekends it would come to
life again.
Walter Peterson,
former nH governor
Walter Peterson was governor of New
Hampshire from 1969 through 1973. He
was and is part of a traditional style of New
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