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From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: re: Movie Curtains
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Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 13:57:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  8 13:57:57 1984
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> 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.
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