Did you do this?

I remember doing that, I loved the cinema when I in my teens.

Oh and we went to Saturday morning cinema as well remember the song that went something like "Here we come along on Saturday morning, greeting everyone with a smile...... forgotten the rest

Also Saturday morning pictures, the film always ended at an exciting part,to make sure you went back the following week. And also going on stage when it was your birthday . Great memories.1q

Yes absolutely, did it all the time, seem to remember we were in the cinema for most of the day when "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help" were released. Certainly got our money's worth. Happy Days

Ginny. Me too. Well we wanted our money's worth so why not sit through it again?

When I read "Can you believe we did this?" For a moment I thought this post was about Brexit ....... Haha
Good old Saturday morning pictures at the Cintra cinema Harpurhey Manchester.
To entertain us while we queued they had a big bird cage in the foyer with budgies and canaries - or did I dream that bit ??
Don't forget the yoyo competitions on the stage .

Yes we did this (and everyone stood for the National Anthem at the end).

Funny that. Like everyone else, I participated and never thought anything about seeing the end before the beginning. I just 'conformed'? Certainly never remember being troubled or frustrated by it. Happy days indeed.

It sounds wonderful petra!

....and then getting to our feet for the national anthem and not leaving till it had finished....

You never see a queue outside a cinema now. When Mary Poppins came on, the queue went right around the block. And then a sign outside FULL UP.

Yep done that! It backfired once when we thought we were early and had caught the last 30 min of a film. We decided to close out eyes so the ending wouldn't be completely spoiled. It took us over 45 minutes to realise that the film had just started!!!

Saturday was a cinema feast for me and my sister.
The usual children's Saturday morning, then lunch at Manzies pie and mash and then another film in the afternoon.
Sounds daft now, doesn't it. This was me and my sister stil at junior school, on our own all day.

And the front row was the cheapest, but the screen couldn`t be seen properly, so when the lights went down we crawled further back!

The back seats were used by courting couples. ?

That should read 11 pm

Those were the days, when the programme was continuous from lunchtime until about 12pm. I regularly left when it got to where I came in at. I was mad with myself a few months ago when Giant was shown on TV and I missed it, I went to see it with my auntie when I was about 14 and we had to leave about 10 minutes before the end to catch the last bus home.
Ah, Saturday afternoon matinees, going to the ssweet shop first for sweet tobacco and gob stoppers, then into the Futurist cinema for Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, Audie Murphy, Roy Rogers ,whoever was on that week, plus the serial.

ABC minors on Saturday morning for 6d. Cartoons and a film. Kia Ora squash.

I always thought it was just my useless parents who did this! I used to beg them to look up the time the film started but it never happened ?
I hated seeing the middle of the film first, it ruined the whole outing which after all was a rare treat at that time.
Urmstongran, the Saturday morning pictures were not related to normal film prices even then as I recall - it was always sixpence in my day, which when you look back is not surprising as most of the films were probably 20 years old at the time ?

I remember hanging on to the " sprung " seats in case it flipped up before I sat down. Then all you could hear after the film ended were all the seats folding up. They were like mouse traps.

Asking an adult to" take you in " the cinema if it was an x-rated horror film like Dracula----after paying of course.

The usherette would be waving her torch around to show people where to sit as the cinemas were often quite full.
And the clouds of cigarette smoke rising up because most people smoked then. If you bought some popcorn it was only a tiny little packet. Nowadays popcorn comes by the bucketful!

Yes that was how it was....also we used to rush out before the National Anthem!

I think this is why I often turn to the end of a suspense book to find out how it turned out ! then go back and continue reading.

I remember sitting through A Hard Day's Night about three times!

Oh yes. I also remember not being able to see all the film as I had to catch the last bus home!