SIR – Reading about the interesting cinema memories of Joyce Bean (T&A, February 11) brought back my own recollections of the Marlboro cinema in the years after the war.
In those days many of the films were about wartime adventures but unfortunately the sound system quite often broke down, resulting in the soundtrack failing but the film continuing to run, showing only the picture.
One such occurrence happened mid-film just as a German officer began to interrogate a captured English solder when, at the crucial moment, the sound cut out leaving the film running in silent mode with the frustrated audience vainly trying to lip-read the ensuing dialogue. Then suddenly, with typical Yorkshire humour, a voice shouted from the back row: “Tell ‘em nowt” at which point the whole cinema audience erupted with laughter, rather ruining the dramatic impact of the scene!
Maureen Frail, Howarth Crescent, Bradford