Lovely article on paper tickets (9 April). However, while Michael Fisher recalls seeing Star Wars at the Gaumont in Birmingham, and says “back in the day … you couldn’t book in advance”, I recall that, unusually, that cinema was taking bookings for Star Wars, certainly at the weekend. I applied for a Saturday in February 1978 and got tickets for four weeks later as demand was so high – the only time I prebooked cinema tickets until modern times.
David Pryke
Forest Hill, London
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