Bradford’s old Ritz Cinema was popular THE current closure of cinemas, due to lockdown, has prompted regular contributor Vincent Finn to recall a time when they weren’t open on Sundays: “Cinemas played a large part in people’s lives. They were so popular that all the city’s cinemas were listed on the front page of the old Telegraph. The pattern of screenings was the same; one set of films on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday then it changed for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. There was a ‘little picture’ followed by newsreels, trailers, then the ‘Big Picture’. It was over by 11pm and at the end everyone stood while the National Anthem played.