Things that time forgot.

[Nick Armstrong]

A sudden image which time forgot, an usherette moving slowly backwards down the cinema aisle with a tray of Kia Ora drinks and ice cream.

Also: the glossy programmes they handed out with blockbuster films! Or perhaps you had to buy them - I think they were called "souvenir programmes"... Either way, they magically appeared in my infant hand at or after the film, and I still have somewhere the ones from Waterloo and Oliver! by both of which I was enthralled at the age of 8/9/10 ...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Also: the glossy programmes they handed out with blockbuster films! Or perhaps you had to buy them - I think they were called "souvenir programmes"... Either way, they magically appeared in my infant hand at or after the film, and I still have somewhere the ones from Waterloo and Oliver! by both of which I was enthralled at the age of 8/9/10 ...

- we had the one sold with My Fair Lady - it gave me my first glimpse into the background of the whole business of making a film.

[french frank]

A sudden image which time forgot, an usherette moving slowly backwards down the cinema aisle with a tray of Kia Ora drinks and ice cream.

And with a torch to show you an empty seat when the lights were down.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Films with intermissions.

The National Anthem at the end of every cinema presentation.

Barbirolli conducting the National Anthem before every Hallé concert

[Serial_Apologist]

A sudden image which time forgot, an usherette moving slowly backwards down the cinema aisle with a tray of Kia Ora drinks and ice cream.

Which suddenly reminds me: bus conductors.

[Serial_Apologist]

And with a torch to show you an empty seat when the lights were down.

A girlfriend of the time who was employed as an usherette told me that those torches often picked out hands in places where they shouldn't have been!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A girlfriend of the time who was employed as an usherette told me that those torches often picked out hands in places where they shouldn't have been!

Did she work near Sellafield?

[Nick Armstrong]

Did she work near Sellafield?

Made me spill my coffee ferney!

[Serial_Apologist]

Did she work near Sellafield?

That reminds me of a demonstrator, holding up a placard with the words, "Hands off Libya!" - to which a passer-by comments, "Very appropriate".

[Ferretfancy]

A girlfriend of the time who was employed as an usherette told me that those torches often picked out hands in places where they shouldn't have been!

In my youth the Wanstead Kinema used to show classic "art" films, mostly French, films like L'Atalante. There were double snogging seats in the back row under the projector!

[subcontrabass]

Friends Reunited - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35670201

[teamsaint]

Friends Reunited - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35670201

Bebo?

[Flosshilde]

Interesting, given the recent attempt by the makers of KitKat to register copyright on their chocolate covered wafer bisuits (they lost).

[Serial_Apologist]

Interesting, given the recent attempt by the makers of KitKat to register copyright on their chocolate covered wafer bisuits (they lost).

Their position was wafer thin.

[teamsaint]

Their position was wafer thin.

Sounds like they were foiled, and given the finger.