Ilfracombe Move It Shake It

June 26, 2010
2:00 pmto6:00 pm

The Vintage Mobile Cinema will be on the seafront in Ilfracombe all afternoon outside the Landmark Theatre. For more information see the Movie Bus website.

Lynton & Lynmouth Music Festival

June 12, 2010
10:00 amto6:00 pm

The bus will be at LLAMA, the Lynton & Lynmouth Music Festival, all day screening archive films for free. For more details see the Movie Bus website.

Ilfracombe College Open Day

June 27, 2010
12:00 pmto4:00 pm

We will be showcasing a mixture of archive films and students’ work all afternoon. See the Movie Bus website for details.

Wandsworth Festival

May 21, 2010toMay 23, 2010

The Vintage Mobile Cinema will be at the Wandsworth Festival for three days as part of the Pumphouse Gallery’s celebrations.

Aeon Festival

August 27, 2010toAugust 29, 2010

The Vintage Mobile Cinema will be at the Aeon Festival as a safari cinema. See their website for details and ticket information.

Appledore Visual Arts Festival

June 5, 2010

The Vintage Mobile Cinema will be in Churchfields Carpark in Appledore all day screening ‘A Tale of Two Rivers’, a 20 minute archive film about the Taw & Torridge estuary, as part of the Appledore Visual Arts Festival. Come down and see this fascinating film in the unique surroundings of this cinema for free. Screenings will be repeated every half hour throughout the day.

Launch Day!

May 15, 2010

The Vintage Mobile Cinema will be outside the Museum of North Devon & Barnstaple all day screening ‘A Tale of Two Rivers’, a 20 minute archive film about the Taw & Torridge Estuary. There is no charge for watching the films, and there will be plenty of celebrations going on as the Cinema takes to the streets for the first time in about 35 years! For more info see the Movie Bus website.

Incredible historic images of the cinemas found.

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Shortly preceding the publicity generated by our airtime on BBC1 on 1/03/10 we received an unexpected email from a Juliet Sanders whose late husband was once the transport manager for PERA – the company for responsible for operating the cinema units for the government. She holds a treasure trove of information and images of the units, something we’d previously wished and hoped still existed somewhere and here’s the first……….! This is conclusive proof that all seven existed as it had been previously suggested to me that only six actually got made, a stunning image. If only we could find another surviving one or just as good, one of the trailers.

All seven mobile cinemas in a line

All seven mobile cinemas in a line

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BBC Inside Out documentary

March 1, 2010
7:30 pmto8:00 pm

At 7.30pm on 1st March 2010 on BBC1 (South West) the 10 minute documentary peice tracking the restoration of the vintage mobile cinema is aired for the first time. Viewers outside of the westcountry should be able to watch the programme via BBC iPlayer.

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