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Guess what? The 19th of January is National Popcorn Day in the USA, so if you’re reading this article on that date, share it with your friends to show your appreciation for our favourite cinema snack. It took a while to make it into the cinema, but now it’s there, popcorn is something we couldn’t imagine watching a movie without. It’s a simple, practical snack that audiences enjoy and that cinema owners can make a large profit from. So, that’s why people eat popcorn at the cinema. For the audience, too, it was ideal for eating while watching a movie – you can eat it with your hands and it won’t distract you from watching.

Also, the tempting smell of cooking popcorn is a more effective advert than any drawn sign. Popcorn is cheap to produce on a large scale and no special skills are needed to make it. Eventually, the cinema owners themselves spotted this as a money-making opportunity and started selling popcorn themselves.įrom the point of view of the cinema owner, it was perfect. Street vendors spotted this chance and started selling their popcorn outside cinemas.

It was the advent of movies with sound in 1927 that started making cinema accessible to the masses and they wanted to bring their snacks into the theatre with them. Silent movies relied on screens of text to deliver important developments and background to the story, which meant that only literate people could enjoy it. This was in part supported by the need to read. In the early days, cinema was an art form for well-educated, wealthy people.

With luxurious seats and carpets like a traditional theatre, eating was not allowed in early movie theatres. In the early days of cinema, movie theatres tried their best to recreate the luxury of a traditional theatre. Start nowĮven when cinema started to become more and more common in the early 1900s, popcorn still hadn’t found its way into movie theatres.

Watching movie with popcorn