Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!oliveb!ios!qubix!msc From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: re: Movie Curtains Message-ID: <1406@qubix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 13:57:57 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.1406 Posted: Mon Oct 8 13:57:57 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 06:02:21 EDT References: <152@hocsj.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 16 > I had heard that closing the curtains was a fire law; it proved that the > theatre (in England) or theater (in the U.S.) had an operational fire > curtain. It may be a hold-over from live stage plays. In the live theatre (England) the safety curtain indeed has to be lowered (at the intermission) to prove they have one. The safety curtain is a completely different curtain from the main stage curtains. Cinemas don't generally have safety curtains since there's not much backstage to catch fire. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@qubix.UUCP, qubix!msc@decwrl.ARPA ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!qubix!msc, ...{amd,ihnp4,ittvax}!qubix!msc "Nothing shocks me. I'm an Engineer."