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1971: AUNT LAURA - Saviour of CINEMA | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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6:18Now Playing"By a family, for the family."
Bob Langley reports on the Electric Theatre, a family-owned cinema that has been operating in the village of Marsden in West Yorkshire since 1919.
The cinema is known locally as Aunt Laura's Cinema, after its charismatic proprietor Laura Beardsall. On any given evening, Aunt Laura can be found helming the pay box, selling refreshments, cleaning up, running the projector with her two nieces and even providing plot synopses for her customers.
With cinema attendance declining rapidly in the face of competition from television, many of the bigger cinema chains have resorted to screening 'x' rated films or hosting bingo nights, but Aunt Laura is sticking resolutely to her guns, showing films for all the family.
Originally broadcast 29 December, 1971.
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