No Luxury Here Vacant allotmens fitted wit rough wooden floors and folding chairs were the first movie theatres, The audience was at the mercy of the weather; only advertising hoarding prevented people outside from enjoying a free show ... In the easily days of films in city centre, one or two blurred shorts were sandwiched between vaudeville acts. Vaudeville thrillers developed later. June 28, 1950. (Photo by The Register & Tribune Syndicate).