Autism Friendly Cinema Screenings

I just stream films from home. If the cinemas don't want my money enough to make autism friendly screenings for adults at regular times I'm not going to give them a single penny. Besides you can't pause the cinema to go for a break so they shot themselves in the foot decades ago when they did away with the intermission imo, even before streaming and being able to pause tv I always just waited for films to come out on VHS and then DVD. Cinema used to have a golden age but its been in its self inflicted deathroes for a while now, all the "bright" ideas they come up with now are just too little too late as far as I'm concerned.

When I was a child a boy in our neighbourhood used to play organ (wearing a bow tie) at our local cinema which would rise up I think before the film etc. I remember there being staff who went around during the intermission selling ice creams (or perhaps I dreamed all that, it was a long time ago now after all) 

When I was a child a boy in our neighbourhood used to play organ (wearing a bow tie) at our local cinema which would rise up I think before the film etc. I remember there being staff who went around during the intermission selling ice creams (or perhaps I dreamed all that, it was a long time ago now after all) 

We dream of going back to Sunday closing! I feel sorry for everyone who doesn't know what that was like.

Yes, remember the tubs! And boxes of fruit gums in fruit shapes. And boxes of Maltesers.

And albatross...

I haven't been to the cinema in years but used to go all the time (I have a degree in film studies), usually in the afternoon as there would often be a handful of people in. I only recall being alone once, for Blade 2, and I sat right at the front for maximum whoosh. I couldn't have coped with no heating though, omg.

I read your that as "The Great Escape" and thought of Steve McQueen on his motorbike 

I watched The Great Escaper at a local cinema today  https://youtu.be/vKgpfUOja2s?feature=shared I turned out to be the only person in the auditorium (my first ever experience of that for an entire film) and the heating was broken in that screen room and so was pretty cool but ok for me all round 

Our local cinema had an orchestra pit at the front and while the film was being changed an usherette stood down by the stage and sold ice cream. It was a high sided tray with a light on it. She wore it around her neck, I think it had Lyon’s Maid written on it. Tubs of ice cream with a small plastic spoon. They also sold a Lyon’s Mivi, it was a fruit flavour on the outside and ice cream in the middle.

It’s just made me remember Sundays when I was small, I would cycle back from the newsagents as fast as I could. A block of vanilla ice cream wrapped in newspaper and wafers. The highlight of any Sunday. It had to be as everything else was closed.

Not a dream! Also there always used to be a short film before the main feature and you could go in at any time during the film and stay to watch it more than once.

I read the other day that because films are getting longer intermissions are making a comeback, so praps the ice cream seller will reappear too?

I don't know whether that will change the noise and disruption and fighting that I also keep reading about though! That's the main reason I wouldn't go nowadays.