Caley Picture House

By 1971, the Caley had installed 70mm screen frame, multi-speaker sound system and projectors. I saw a blow-up of “The Jolson Story” there and the huge screen was most impressive. Less so were the totally unsuitable festoon curtains, sections of which continued all around the walls up to the rear of the auditorium. Footlights filtered Red/Blue/Green (which would have lit the new tabs beautifully from their rightful place) were oddly placed along the back wall above the projection portholes thereby giving a rainbow glow to the backs of heads in the circle and leaving the stage end dark.