We have to travel way back in time for the latest instalment in our series about the local cinema halls of yesteryear in the Rand.  93-year-old Pierre Roobaert from Lot can still remember going to the Cinema Kok on a regular basis when he was an eight-year-old boy back in1928. The man running the place used to be known as Jef Cinema. He was helped out by Suske Kok, who Roobaert describes as a 'nice little fellow who used to sell the tickets and stop the young cinemagoers from getting out of hand'. The no-frills cinema hall could seat 100 or so people. The screen was a white sheet, while the images were projected through three secret holes right at the back in the wall. 'At the end of each of the eight sections of the film the lights would come on while the reels were being changed. Some of the films would be spread over the space of two or three weeks. However, it was not that easy for children to go to the cinema. ‘But the priest's warnings couldn't keep us away.’ (RK, juni 2013)