| June 26, 2010 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 6:00 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.
Ilfracombe Move It Shake It
Lynton & Lynmouth Music Festival
| June 12, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 6:00 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 pm | to | 4:00 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, 2010 | to | May 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, 2010 | to | August 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.
BBC Inside Out documentary
| March 1, 2010 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 8:00 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.
New paint at last!
| November 12, 2009 1:00 pm | to | November 16, 2009 5:00 pm |
Two of Hills finest painters set to work on the roof
Thursday 12th November will go down as a landmark date in the history of the mobile cinema KJU 267E. It was on this day that all the years of mechanics, stress and preparation have been leading up to – the day new paint goes on. The roof is the first part of the vehicle to see paint, then followed by the framework for the dome (above the cab)
With all the prep done the cinema desperately needs its new paint
, the the blue stripe on Friday and the main body the following Monday. Pictures of the full job should be up here by midweek………. (18th Nov, approx).
BBC ‘Inside Out’ crew to begin filming.
| September 15, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 5:00 pm |
Camera crew at the workshop
Following our press release the BBC have expressed an interest in making a 9-10 minute short documentary on the restoration of the mobile cinema. They will be visiting the workshop several times over the winter and are aiming to edit their footage with some of our own for a thorough insight into the ups and downs of this interesting project.
Final external carpentry and last minute mechanics.
| September 14, 2009 9:00 am | to | October 5, 2009 9:00 am |
We’ve got our trusty chippy at hand for the back end of September, along with the regular team, to help make the final push on all the little jobs neccessary for the cinema’s upcoming road trip.
Mobile Cinema booked into Hills Body Works, Exeter.
| October 6, 2009 3:00 pm | to | November 5, 2009 2:00 pm |
We’ve agreed a deal with Hills Body Works of Marsh Barton, Exeter to do all the preparatory work for a full body respray, including re-skinning some aluminium panels and glass fibre repair to the cab, then of course the respray itself. By early November the cinema will be returned to its original white and blue colours, giving the whole restoration a massive lift. Our attention will then move swiftly onto soundproofing the interior cinema space and installing some updated lighting.
Let the final mechanics work commence……..
| July 6, 2009 | to | July 28, 2009 |
With the registration document now safely in our hands we can invest our time and resources into making the cinema road legal. Surprisingly only a handful of jobs need completing to make the cinema mechacically sound, such as fitting the gearstick properly and housing the ignition battery in a secure place. All of the more daunting jobs such as the brakes, engine work and electrics were done nearly 2 years ago. Even more surprising was that about 90% of the electrics (including the internal 240v system) worked perfectly the first ime we gave them a power supply! Long live Bedfords and all things ‘built to last’.
Carpentry work
| July 6, 2009 | to | July 24, 2009 |
Carpenter booked in to undertke the restoration of the woodwork surrounding the belly box doors and to rebuild the cab doors.