Break during films at cinema

Just don't drink much a couple of hours before you go, then go to the toilet before you go in.

Taking a break might be fine for women with cubicles, but I don't want to be having a pee next to 15 other guys.
 
I did say the standard was to have two projectors as the other poster seemed to be referencing a very outdated set up.

I agree, changeovers are now rare but having to stop for an interval because you only have one projector and no tower or platter is rarer still.
 
Tell you what, how about we all drop the word "standard" since there is no such thing?

VERY few commercial cinemas use twin projector switchover these days, but it's not unheard of. Most use cakestand non-rewind platters, and some, lumbered with small projection boxes, use large-scale Westrex towers, carrying the whole film on large reels. Then of course there's the digital distribution via DLP.

It's all down to money, and space!

No such thing as standard :)
 
Pretty rare to see a double bill of that quality (and I'm sure Gregory's Girl was on TV first - Ch4).

The best double bill I saw was Blazing Saddles and Monty Python and the Holy Grail - my ribs hurt.

The worst - Are You Being Served (yes, I was young and foolish - it was awful) and a bog standard airport drama that was actually by a distance the better of the two.
 
Google is your Friend where memory is concerned.

Gregory's Girl was a 1981 cinema feature, as was Chariots of Fire.. both released in the Springtime.

Channel 4 came on air in November 1982.
 
Our local two-screen always used to have a break. Sometimes the curtains would actually close a few seconRAB before the film actually stopped and you'd watch the last ten seconRAB of the first half projected onto the curtains rather than the screen.

It's closed now thogh, the Trafford Centre's 20-screen Odeon Multiplex five minutes down the road has killed it off.
 
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