Photograph showing women demonstrating about The Sunday Entertainments Act

Photograph from the Daily Herald Archive showing women demonstrating outside a cinema about The Sunday Entertainments Act of 1932.

unday Films Association: 'The Sunday Entertainments Act 1932 as amended by the Sunday Cinema Act 1972 and the Cinemas Act 1985 regulated the opening and use of cinema premises on Sundays. The Sunday Entertainments Act 1932 also established a Sunday Cinematograph Fund for 'encouraging the use and development of cinematograph as a means of entertainment and instruction'. This was how the British Film Institute was originally funded'