Vintage Mobile Cinema http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:17:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Vintage Nights Festival – Canary Wharf, Friday 17th February http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/news/861/vintage-nights-festival-canary-wharf-friday-17th-february http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/news/861/vintage-nights-festival-canary-wharf-friday-17th-february#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:17:48 +0000 Ollie http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/?p=861 From 4pm to Midnight, come along and enjoy the comfort of the mobile cinema – all for free! We’re going to be screening classic episodes of ‘Top of the Pops’, and it’s all part of Canary Wharf’s Vintage Nights Festival, which runs from the 14th to the 17th of February. There’s tea dances, swing dances, a silent disco – even sing-a-long ‘Grease’ to take you back to the good old days! For more info see http://canarywharf.com/visitus/Arts–Events1/Events/Vintage-Mobile-Cinema/

]]> http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/news/861/vintage-nights-festival-canary-wharf-friday-17th-february/feed 0 Encounters Short Film Festival http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/news/858/encounters-short-film-festival http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/news/858/encounters-short-film-festival#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:46:18 +0000 Ollie http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/?p=858 Saturday November 19th & Sunday 20th sees the Vintage Mobile Cinema return to Bristol for the second time, for this year’s Encounters Short Film Festival. The programme of films has been put together by the good folks of the M Shed Museum, in partnership with Encounters and the Bristol Records Office. We’ll be screening a selection of contemporary film-makers shorts as well as archive film of Bristol, for the full details see here.

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‘Ten Seconds’ is a film by Tim Clague, and was commissioned through the South West Screen Digital Shorts programme, a project which allowed a selection of South West film-makers to realise their dream and make a short film with support and funding.

Screened at: Ramsgate Summer Squall, August 2011

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‘Ramble On’ is a short film animated by Tom Parkinson and Tim Ruffle, commissioned as part of South West Screen‘s Digital Shorts programme, a project which allowed a selection of South West film-makers to realise their dream and make a short film with support and funding.

Screened at: Ramsgate Summer Squall, August 2011

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One of those nice people is Will Becher, whose delightful short animation ‘Off Beat’ asks a simple question – what happens when all the policemen go on holiday?

‘Off Beat’ was commissioned as part of South West Screen’s Digital Shorts programme, a project which allowed a selection of South West film-makers to realise their dream and make a short film with support and funding.

Screened at: Aeon Festival, August 2010; Ramsgate Summer Squall, August 2011

]]> http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/films/850/off-beat/feed 0 Kung Fu Romance http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/films/847/kung-fu-romance http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/films/847/kung-fu-romance#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:25:43 +0000 Ollie http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/?p=847 When we screened some work of the recent graduates of the Arts University of Bournemouth last year, we had a whole lot of kids coming out of the cinema asking the same thing. ‘Can we go in and watch some more?’ More specifically, the kids just kept requesting one film for us to play again and again – Ben Ho’s ‘Kung Fu Romance‘, a short animation that packs a big punch.

We’ve no doubt that Ben is amongst the talented graduates of Bournemouth who’s work we’ll be seeing again – no doubt on the television or big screen next time!

Screened at: Aeon Festival, August 2010; Ramsgate Summer Squall, August 2011

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The film has proved so popular that it has spawned a sequel – now you don’t see that happening with an archive film very often, do you!? You can catch a glimpse of the trailer for ‘Thanet on Film II’ on YouTube.

Screened at: Ramsgate Summer Squall, August 2011

]]> http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/films/845/thanet-on-film/feed 0 Southport Flower Show Archive Films http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/films/841/southport-flower-show-archive-films http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/films/841/southport-flower-show-archive-films#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:59:31 +0000 Ollie http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/?p=841 The Southport Flower Show is the UK’s biggest independent Flower Show, now in its 83rd year. With an impressive pedigree such as that, it was important that the films we screened to the flower enthusiasts who visited us over four days in August were top notch.  Archive films from Southport’s flower shows in the 1950s, 60s and even the Golden Jubilee transported our audiences back in time – and yes, we even had a few dedicated green-fingered folks who spotted their former selves on film!  Our Flower Show films came from the collections of the  North West Film Archive, many of which were shot by the Southport Movie Makers club.

It’s not often than an amateur film club such as this produces such professional looking films, and our audiences were impressed to see films from the ‘Southport on Film’ collection on subjects such as the history of the pier and the origins of Southport’s famous Lord Street. We hope to be back again sometime to visit the good folks of Southport once again!

Screened at: Southport Flower Show, August 2011

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Some of the squadrons that had their home at Harrowbeer were from Poland, and it was heartwarming to see some of the Polish relatives and friends of those brave airmen come along to watch ‘For Your and Our Skies’ and ‘Poles in the Battle of Britain’, both of which captured the tremendous heroism of those brave airmen.

We also screened a selection of film from the South West Film and TV Archive, including the award winning ‘Peter and Ruby’ about subsistence farmers on Dartmoor, ‘Plymouth – the Blitz Years’, and a selection of archive footage from as far back as the 1920s.

Screened at: RAF Harrowbeer 70th Anniversary Event, August 2011

]]> http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/films/839/raf-harrowbeer-archive-films/feed 0 Screen Heritage UK Launch – Brighton, London & Yorkshire http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/news/818/screen-heritage-uk-launch-brighton-london-yorkshire http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/news/818/screen-heritage-uk-launch-brighton-london-yorkshire#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:30:40 +0000 Ollie http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/?p=818 Over the course of the next week, we’re visiting these locations, screening free archive film. For more details, see our latest newsletter.

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