I used to go to The Picture House Harborne. It was a real old fashioned place with little emergency gas lamps on both walls. There was no balcony and the front doors opened straight onto a small vestibule with a small ticket office and double entrance either side. It had no proscenium arch as you would normally expect, and the curtains (silver) hung from a track on the ceiling. Occasionally, the film broke and we'd stamp our feet and whistle till the picture returned. When Cinemascope arrived, they couldn't install a wide screen as there were exit doors either side, so they put in a big square screen with descending masking that left a strip of picture across the bottom. Not quite what 20th Century Fox had in mind. When I first started attending they had a curtain winder. As the film was finishing, he'd walk down the aisle and duck behind the little curtain stretched across the bottom of the screen. You could see him looking for THE END. Then he'd wind the handle to close the curtains. He stayed there till the censors certificate for the next film appeared on the curtains, then he'd open them. When we look at the multiplexes today we realise what a long way we've come.