Did you do this?

I had a holiday job as an usherette in 1965. Wore an awful dark red uniform with gold braid and epaulettes. The job involved showing people to seats after the lights had gone down. Films were on a loop as people have said so arrivals during the film were the norm.
During intervals, the dark red was swapped for a voluminous pink nylon overall and I had to stand at the front with my ice cream tray of tubs and choc ices with a spotlight on me! Show biz!
Remember seeing Mary Poppins and Help! More than 20 times.?

If I went to the pictures on my birthday, I could never understand why I was never called up to the stage and given a lollipop like the other children. It was only later on that I realised that someone actually had to tell them!

Me and my friend did this a few weeks ago!! We booked to see Bohemian Rhapsody at a local cinema and got the time wrong. After a bit of a giggle and looking at each other in bewilderment we realised what we’d done so just sat and watched it and came out at the end, had a cup of coffee and went back in and saw the beginning. We still haven’t lived it down with our husbands!! ??

AwwKatyK have this one?

Great fun the kids Saturday matinées. Afterwards we would go to the chop shop for chips and batter bits.

If my memory serves me well usually the Lone Ranger and Tonto appeared alongside the cartoons.

I get so frustrated on the odd occasion I go to the cinema now and you sit through half an hour of adverts or 'What' s Coming Soon' before the ruddy film starts.

Don’t forget sneaking into another screen to watch something else after ?

I try to time it so that I miss all the prefilm rubbish for which you need earplugs!
We used to have an A and a B film and the Pathe News. good value indeex!

indeed!

annep1 I took my 20yo SN ds to the cinema yesterday and was telling him about one screen, queues, the 2 films and newsreel!! Plus the interval ice cream!!

Compared to our trip yesterday with luxury reclining seats and our smuggled in Haribo (for him) and an apple for me!!

So different now Riggie. I bring a bottle of water.
I'd forgotten the queues.
We had heavy curtains across the screen that used to open. Sometimes there was a little information film about how something was manufactured. I loved it.

Thank you PECS

I worked in a cinema while I was still at school ,there were gas mantles to light before we opened and unless you ha dthe right knack they would POP .My GC think I'm ancient when I say I remember gas lighting but it was the mid sixties.I worked mainly in the shop and even did the accounts for it at 14.No employer would get away with that nowadays ,mind you no calculator , it was good arithmetic practice for school.The film changed mid week unless it was a really popular new release,and I wasn't allowedd through the door on the days it was an X certificate .I loved that wee job .

Matinee at our local cinema - 6 pence downstairs - 9 pence balcony. Usherette aged about 100 used to keep us quiet by flashing her torch along the row. She also sprayed dusting powder along each row - we thought it was to keep down fleas and nits. I used to 'ride' my brother home - he was 'Trigger' - I was Roy Rodgers!

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Ha ha! I do that as well, BradfordLass With the books, I mean.

Things certainly ain't what they used to be, are they? I went to see 'Bohemian Rhapsody' when it came out back end of last year, cost an arm a leg and a few toes to get in, had to sit through a full half an hour of goodness knows what film previews and adverts before the film came on. Just the one shot at seeing it, when it finished there was no sitting there waiting for it to start again, it was a case of 'Everybody out!' Such a shame.

Yes I remember doing this regularly and when Elvis started making films we used to watch them through twice.

My mum and I went to see "The glass slipper" many years ago. When we got to the cinema there was a queue a mile long, right around the block. I said, "Mum, we are not going to get tickets, they will be sold out."
She went right to the front of the queue and pushed in and got the last 2 tickets. She always was an opportunist.

When on hols recently we went to a little cinema some miles from Lytham. Cups of tea were bought and taken in. The National Anthem was shown before the film.

And I remember when Psycho came out you were forbidden to tell the ending...

Yep! Had to do that, or miss the last bus home to the village I lived in!

When Flash Gordon was on a conveyer belt leading to a furnace the doors closed behind him. Next week's episode started where he rolled off before he got there!

And those cowboy films. The baddies wore a black hat and the goodies wore a white hat.
If only life was as simple as that ?

Our cinema wouldn`t let anyone in once Psycho had started.

I used to go to Saturday morning pictures, my mum made me take my sister & brother.
6d downstairs, 9d upstairs.
Singalong before the programme started. Always left with a cliffhanger!
As a teenager I’d go with my friend at the weekend and stay all day watching whatever was showing on the loop ?