Postcard of cinema goers in a queue for 'Ain't Misbehavin' in 1955

Postcard featuring a black and white photograph of cinema goers standing outside a British cinema in 1955, queuing to see the film 'Ain't Misbehavin'. The left side of the image shows the queue on the street, the front couple reading a paper while the right side shows part of the cinema building with a poster advertising the film. A typed inscription of the reverse reads: "London 1955. / Let's go to the pictures. Cinema goers queue for the '2/4d' seats to see Rory Calhoun and Piper Laurie in AIN'T MISBEHAVIN, in Technicolour. In 1955 there were over 4,000 cinema theatres in the British Isles and twenty million people attended the cinema regularly every week." Part of the Nostalgia Postcard Collector's Club Series, Set 1. Features a fake postage stamp reading: "Yesterday's Britain, 1890's-1950's" Photo from the Hulton Picture Co.

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection