I can't say that I have ever attended a film at 11 am on the 11 of November, so I'm not too sure if theatres today observe Armistice Day/Remembrance Day.
In the 1930s it seems that Armistice Day was observed twice throughout the day once at 11 am and then about at 8.30 pm. This second time was to coincide with the commemorations taking place in the UK at 11 am. With 11 am being the agreed hour the guns on the battlefields stopped and World War I came to an end.
On the 11th of November 1932 which was a Friday, all picture theatres in Adelaide observed two minutes of silence. The decision of the picture theatres was only a small part of the observations that would take place that day, reading the article posted below it seems that a torch lead procession was one of the ways that South Australia chose to remember the fallen. Remembering that for much of the population WWI was still a very real memory for many of them.
The Advertiser (Adelaide) 9 November 1932 p7.
Courtesy of Trove: 09 Nov 1932 - ARMISTICE DAY ON FRIDAY - Trove (nla.gov.au)
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