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/
Encounters Short Film Festival
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.
Screen Heritage UK Launch – Brighton, London & Yorkshire
Over the course of the next week, we’re visiting these locations, screening free archive film. For more details, see our latest newsletter.
Southport Flower Show
It’s only a few days now until we take to the roads again, this time for the Southport Flower Show, ‘the most entertaining and inspirational independent flower show in the UK’ .
With this year’s ‘Vintage’ theme we’re sure to fit right in and we’ll be showing some exciting Southport & flower show archive from 18-21 August.
Latest news
| WEDNESDAY 10 AUGUST, 2011
Latest News A big thanks to all who packed out the cinema at this year’s Vintage Festival in London, where we didn’t have a spare seat all weekend. From Ealing Classics to Ministry of Information films, our programme went down a storm. If you Londoners missed us, don’t panic – we’ll be back in September with the BFI for the Thames Festival. Our visit was made possible by Vue Cinemas as part of their celebrations about opening the new Westfield cinema at Stratford, and thanks also go to Optimum Releasing and the BFI for putting together a brilliant programme of films, including the classic Ealing comedies which have just been re-released on DVD. Upcoming Events RAF Harrowbeer 70th Anniversary Event – Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th August We’re going to be spending the weekend in sunny (we hope!) Devon for the RAF Harrowbeer 70th Anniversary event. The weekend will kick off with a 1940s Dinner Dance at the Moorland Garden Hotel (formerly the Moorland Links Hotel) near Yelverton on Friday 12th August at 7pm, so put on your dancing shoes and come on down. There will be a special menu and live 1940s music, and the crowd will be getting dressed up in 1940s style for this event. See the website for details and tickets. The mobile cinema programme will run all day on Saturday and Sunday, after the event opens on Saturday at 10am, when there will be a Service of Rememberance at the RAF Harrowbeer Memorial Stone at Leg O’ Mutton Corner. The City of Plymouth Pipe Band will lead a march back to Knightstone for the official opening ceremony. Our visit has been made possible by the new owners of the Moorland Garden Hotel, a very special hotel on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, set in 9 acres of beautiful grounds with breathtaking views across the Tamar Valley. So if you need somewhere to stay over the weekend, you know where to go! We’re going to be screening a great mix of archive film, including ‘For Your and Our Skies’, ‘Poles in the Battle of Britain’, and material from the South West Film and TV Archive including the award winning ‘Peter and Ruby’ about subsistence farmers on Dartmoor and a selection of archive footage from as far back as the 1920s. And for the very first time, you’ll be able to catch a glimpse of the upcoming BBC2 TV series ‘The Reel History of Britain’ with an exclusive screening of some material from the programme. And we’re not the only attraction – the sights and sounds include: IN THE AIR: ON THE GROUND: So bring all the friends and family for this unique, one-off event. See the Harrowbeer website for more details. Other Upcoming Events We’re heading up North! We’re going to be at the Southport Flower Show from 18th – 21st August, screening archive footage from Flower Shows of yesteryear. And on the bank holiday weekend 28th & 29th August, we’ll be at the Ramsgate Arts Festival with an eclectic mix of short films on offer. More details about all of this to come, as well as September trips to Birmingham, Yorkshire, Brighton, London, Bournemouth and the New Forest. For more details, see our events list. See you there! |
The Vintage Festival 2011
We’re in London and all geared up for our return to the Vintage festival, held this year @ London’s Southbank.
Our screening schedule looks exciting…if you want to come and see a film in our beautiful restored mobile cinema between this Friday (29th July) and Sunday on the Southbank then you have lots to choose from. Films celebrating the pleasures of alcohol (3pm), classic Ministry of Information films (5pm), Ealing classics (6pm), and films about bad girls…(7.45pm). Our opening show At 1pm each day is a sing-along Bugsy Malone special.
Friday: Sing-Along Bugsy Malone, Whisky Galore!, Listen to Britain, Hue & Cry, Yield to the Night.
Saturday: Sing-Along Bugsy Malone, Withnail & I, London Can Take It, The Ladykillers, Permissive.
Sunday: Sing-Along Bugsy Malone, Pubs & Clubs of London, Nightmail, Passport to Pimlico, That Kind of Girl.
All screenings are free thanks to Vue cinema! Just part of the epic Vintage experience. If you’re in London, it’s a must.
Adventure Travel Film Festival
This year the Vintage Mobile Cinema is delighted to be making a cameo appearance at the Adventure Travel Film Festival, where the UK leg is hosted on our doorstep in Appledore from Friday 3rd June–Sunday 5th June 2011 at Knapp House, Churchill Way, Bideford, Devon, EX39 1NT. We’ll be there screening films on Sunday 5th from 10am – 2pm.
Some of the world’s finest and rarest travel movies are to feature at this year’s Adventure Travel Film Festival.
Hosted and curated by film-maker Austin Vince and travel author Lois Pryce, The Adventure Travel Film Festival is held once a year in the UK, USA and Australia. The UK festival offers a weekend of camping and hanging out against the backdrop of the glorious North Devon coast, not to mention the celluloid backdrop of some of the greatest travel films ever made.
Ministry of Technology
For a short time only we’ve transformed the mobile cinema back into its 1967 ‘Ministry of Technology’ livery, this is how it will appear in the BBC2 series ‘Reel History of Britain’ later in the year.
Ministry of Technology
Ministry of Technology
Thanks and Praises
We’ve survived our back to back mini marathon of film festivals and are now making the final preparations for our BBC tour of the country to shoot the ‘Reel History’ show featuring Melvyn Bragg, and the vintage mobile cinema of course.
Before this whirlwind takes us away we’d like to say a massive thank you to both Flatpack and Borderlines film festivals, each of which proved very kind and gracious hosts and are shining examples of how to keep the film viewing experience dynamic and very much alive.
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Flatpack & Borderlines Film Festivals
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16mm Projector Installed
After a reassuringly busy winter we’ve finally had some time in the workshop and, along with a thorough spring clean, we today installed the Bell & Howell 16mm projector kindly donated to us some months back.
This is the exact same make and model that we believe was installed in each of the mobile cinema’s in 1967, so once we’d transferred the mounting base from the old projector plinth it couldn’t have been easier to fit – it simply sat in place, perfectly housed. Next job on the list is getting power to it and putting a reel on!
Thanks once again to Chris Mellors of North Molton for the donation and research into which projector we needed.
Bell & Howell 16mm in Vintage Mobile Cinema
V.M.C. to Colchester
Firstsite contemporary arts organisation of Colchester, Essex have invited us to come and run a series of screenings around the area from 3rd – 6th February. We’re very excited to be taking the cinema back to a part of the country where it once lived for some 14 years and look forward to sharing the great films Firstsite have programmed. We hope to see you there!
For further web information please see: http://www.firstsite.uk.net/page/3030/Vintage+Mobile+Cinema+Bus/227
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BBC2 Television Series.
We’ve been in discussion for some time now about a television series featuring the Vintage Mobile Cinema on tour around the UK with presenter Melvyn Bragg and footage from the BFI. Here’s a link to the BBC press release:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/09_september/30/bragg.shtml
Live on BBC Breakfast!
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We’re appearing on live television tomorrow morning (26th Nov) courtesy of the BBC Breakfast programme which goes to air 6 – 9am. We unfortunately don’t know an exact time but we’ve been led to believe we could make several appearances.
The feature is set to look at the community project we’ve been delivering in North Devon as the ‘Movie Bus‘, showing some footage already in the can from today of a school group from Sticklepath Community School visiting the cinema and watching some local archive footage.
Bell & Howell projector
Chris Mellors
A big thank you to Chris Mellors of North Molten, Devon for very kindly donating a Bell & Howell 16mm projector to the Vintage Mobile Cinema.
Chris is a collector of old projectors and took the time to research the exact model of 16mm projector that would originally have been installed in our mobile cinema. In our workshop we still have the original mounting base for such a unit, so sometime in the not too distant future it should be installed in the cab and ready to run some 16mm films…..
Goodwood Revival images
A truly fantastic time was had by all at Revival 2010 and we can’t begin to mention all the wonderful, helpful and informative people we met individually, but you know who you are.
Goodwood Revival 2010
2010
We’re proud to announce confirmation that the Vintage Mobile Cinema will be in attendance at the prestigious Revival meeting at Goodwood over the weekend of 17th September. Take a step back in time and enjoy a unique chance to revel in the glamour and allure of motor racing in the romantic time capsule of the golden era of motor racing at one of the world’s most authentic circuits.
AONB North Devon fund solar power unit
AONB solar power launch
On perhaps the wettest day of 2010 so far in the South West we launched our newly built solar power unit and surprisingly it lasted for six and a half hours with power to spare! Admittedly most of the power was stored in the batteries from the sunshine on the day before but we were still getting a very slight charge of 0.3 amps from the grey skies over Croyde. The unit is now soaking up whatever rays the remainder of England’s summer has to offer, ready for its next outing.
When running on the solar unit, instead of mains electricity or generator power, we choose not to use the on-board air conditioning unit due to its heavy power consumption but power for absolutely everything else, including lights, audio and projection all come from the sun’s energy.
This unit simply wouldn’t have come into existence without the money put in by AONB North Devon from their sustainable development fund, so huge thanks to them for their foresight and we hope it lives on for many years to come so it allows us to put on shows to people in a far wider range of locations without the distracting hum and pollution of a generator. Alongside the solar power, the AONB also supported the production of a special film with the Movie Bus project detailing the history of North Devon’s beautifully preserved coastline. This film will be screened at several of our forthcoming North Devon events and is one not to miss if you have any connection to the beautiful landscape in the North Devon areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Vintage @ Goodwood
Vintage Cinema @ 'Vintage'
Neil Innes signs the cinema
Stephen Woolley @ Vintage
Night time @ Vintage
Watertight at last!
After being so lucky with our dry early summer months the rainfall has steadily increased and we discovered a leak in the trademark Perspex dome above the cab. Following many attempts atop a wobbling ladder to trace the leak, frustration and concern were mounting as we just couldn’t pinpoint where the water was getting in. Thankfully last night in the workshop we solved it. Our efforts were perhaps galvanised by the weather report of 26mm of rain today in Croyde, where I’m currently writing this news from a dry, warm cinema cab as the rain pours down outside. Victory to the roof sealant at last!
Calling all independent film-makers!
Vintage Mobile Cinema
We are looking for independent film-makers work at the moment, to screen aboard the Vintage Mobile Cinema as we tour different events across the country.
This is an opportunity for film-makers to have their work screened in a unique environment; a one-of-a-kind 1967 Mobile Cinema, the last survivor from a fleet of seven. The vehicle is completely unique, featuring a retro-futuristic perspex dome above the cab, and it causes
heads to turn whereever it goes!
We have been busy with the hugely successful Movie Bus Project (www.moviebus.org.uk) since the restoration was completed three months ago. The project, supported by the UK Film Council’s Digital Film Archive Fund and South West Screen, has seen the creation of eight different archive film compilations, which have been toured around North
Devon on board the bus. People have come in droves to the cinema, not only because of the films and their content, but because of the unique nature of the vehicle.
The Vintage Mobile Cinema will now be touring a series of festivals, screening a wide selection of material, and we are pleased to be able to help put together the cinema programming for the upcoming Aeon Festival (www.aeonfestival.com) on August 26th – 30th. We want to make this an opportunity for independent film-makers to get their work out there and seen in these unique surroundings.
We already have had offers from various artists and organisations to screen their work, such as David Salas’s award winning ‘Uncomfortable’ (http://web.mac.com/savedalas/iWeb/UNCOMFORTABLE/UNCOMFORTABLE.html) and work from Animated Exeter. With the Vintage Mobile Cinema’s unique ability to draw in a wide array of people, you never know who might be in the next audience for your film!
Contact Emma Giffard for more details, on emma.giffard@northdevon.gov.uk or 07809 640714.
Images of our latest events
A sunny afternoon at the Bideford Medieval event
Outside the Landmark theatre in Ilfracombe
St Peter's Fair in Holsworthy
V.M.C receive Transport Trust restoration award.
On the 14th June Oliver Halls of the Vintage Mobile Cinema was very proud to receive an award from the Transport Trust for the restoration of the Bedford mobile cinema unit KJU 267E. In attendance was one time owner and president of the trust, Sir William McAlpine. The awards were presented by H.R.H Prince Michael of Kent in the Camden Roundhouse, London.
Neil Marshall, H.R.H Prince Michael of Kent, Oliver Halls, Sir William McAlpine
In the Heart of the North Devon Community
In the sunshine at Appledore Visual Arts Festival
A bustling day that filled the cinema for every screening!
The cinema spends a day in the heart of Mortoe
Feedback for the mobile cinema and archive films flooded in
Huge thanks to the Pumphouse Gallery, Battersea Park, London.
Vintage Mobile Cinema @ Pumphouse Gallery
The Vintage Mobile Cinema is just back from a very successful 3 day collaboration with the Pumphouse Gallery in Battersea Park, London and would like to thank all involved for being such great hosts and for inviting us to be part of the excellent Wandsworth Arts Festival.
The weather was unbelievable and the turnout impressive. It was a very exciting first visit for the cinema to the nation’s capital and we greatly look forward to returning to share the Vintage Mobile Cinema experience with many more people in the near future.
Launch day @ North Devon museum.
Local dignitaties Nick Harvey and Roy Lucas help launch the Movie Bus project.
With well over 200 people through the doors of the Vintage Mobile Cinema in just over 5 hours the Movie Bus project launch was a real and valid success. Twice hourly we screened the first of our 8 archive films documenting the history of North Devon, its culture and industry. This first installment ‘A Tale of Two Rivers’ explores the history of Taw and Torridge estuary.
A big thank you to all who attended and we hope many of you will be along time and again to see the other films in the series and continue to enjoy the unique Vintage Mobile Cinema experience in beautiful Devon.
Preview image of cinema interior
Although the interior restoration is still undergoing the final touches before the launch we’ve decided to respond to the request for some interior photographs, to see even more recent images please go to the Vintage Mobile Cinema image gallery page.
Incredible historic images of the cinemas found.
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
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.
Slow progress being made on the cinema interior.
It’s been over a month now since we picked up our tools following the respray of the cinema and although progress is definitely afoot, it’s very slow going.
At this stage of the project all of the tasks start overlapping and it becomes a 3D jigsaw of which one is never sure if all the pieces even exist! For example the electrics need to be in place before the environment is finished and knowing the electrical requirements involve buying the equipment, thousands of pounds worth. One then needs to consider finishing materials for the walls and floors according to both aesthetics and acoustic performance, whilst not forgetting we have a serious width restriction as regards seating. Before you can even lift a saw to begin work you have to plan the location of the equipment as mounting points for heavy objects like projectors need to be in place before any cladding goes up. I’m sure all of this is bread and butter to anyone in the building trade or a serious DIY enthusiast, but for me with our deadlines and relative inexperience its been a blood pressure raising time.
The floor of the theatre is now soundproofed with 2mm thick barrier matt, then insulated with 20mm of Celotex/Recticel and clad in 12mm ply. The extruded aluminium side walls are covered by 4mm ply, backed with the same 2mm barrier matt and painted with MDF primer on the face ready for covering – carpet? We’re not sure. Fingers crossed this will provide the basic level of soundproofing we need.
Presently the work is focused on the bulkhead and rear walls. The bulkhead has proved a challenge as the doorway needed enlarging for us to make a safe emergency exit – were people that much smaller in 1967?! The film reel cupboards, accessible from the cab, are also located on the bulkhead and have needed rebuilding due to a touch of woodworm and a slight dimension alteration to accommodate the modern AV equipment being installed.
With this phase nearly complete we’re already looking towards fabrication of the tiered seating frame and have just handed our upholsterers the restored wooden seat frames to cover in our chosen (fire retarded) fabric. While also, a local mould maker is nearing completion of the mould for the dome panels above the cab, which will promptly be sent off to Lancashire for 8 brand new acryllic panels to be drape formed and sent back to our workshop for installation.
Busy times, I just hope we can keep up the pace and try to conclude the restoration for springtime…….. For more images visit our interior rebuild gallery.
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).
Wellington Timber save the day
Wellington Timber
With the mobile cinema in Hills Body Works it was discovered the state of the wood in the driver’s door wasn’t as good as we’d hoped, and with our resident carpenter Hal unable to work, the repair looked ominous.
Rotten section of the driver's door
Thankfully our wood supplier Wellington Timber stepped up and agreed to cut and shape the central, structural piece of wood. This help combined with a talented worker at Hills saw the repair complete and the door refitted with a fresh, new aluminium skin.
National Mobile Windscreens remove glass
Removing the old beading
For us this has long been a landmark occasion, keenly and anxiously awaited. However, the boys from National Mobile Windscreens came along and in 10 short minutes made childsplay of taking out the old screen.
The fibreglass repairs on the cab can now go ahead and once the new paint is on, National Mobile Windscreens can return with some brand new window rubber (complete with shiny silver beading) and refit the glass. We’ve recently learned that putting the glass back in is actually the hard part, so it’s fingers crossed in early November when they return.
Meanwhile they’ve taken the glass away, cleaned it up and have it safely stored in their workshop. All part of the service, excellent.
Journey to Hills Body Works completed safely
Mobile cinema at Hills
The cinema completed its long awaited 20 mile drive from the Blackdown Hills of East Devon to Exeter without a hitch on the 7th March, 2009, and now nestles inside the busy workshop at Hills Body Works. The journey was captured in full by the BBC cameras as part of the ongoing filming for a documentary to be screened in March 2010.
Skilled workers at Hills set to work immediately on the bodywork and within a matter of days had the doors all around the cinema looking straight, clean and ready for paint. In the weeks following, they moved onto rubbing down the paintwork, repairing the fiberglass damage to the cab and are now getting very close to applying the barrier coat used to stop the old 1970′s ‘apple green’ paint (applied in Sir William McAlpine’s ownership) reacting badly with the modern paint.
Spud working on metal shroud
The colour swatches have been chosen with great care, plus some debate, and we’ve settled on using a direct colour match for the main body of the vehicle (off-white/cream) and a blue stripe down the body (slightly darker and richer than the original sky blue). It’s only a matter of days now until the mobile cinema rolls out of the workshop looking every bit as good as it has in well over 35 years!
A sample piece of material for replacing the perspex dome has also been aquired and we’re hoping that fitting a complete new set of panels won’t be as hard or expensive as we’ve maintained it might be, if this too is replaced by the time the cinema leaves Hills then the exterior of the unit will be as good as new. Fingers crossed.
Tax disc takes us one step closer to the road
A simple trip to the DVLA with all relevant papers saw us walk happily away as the proud owners of 12 months tax, gratis! Another landmark crossed on the journey to showing films – we’ll get there one day but it bodes to be a long winter of work.
Restoration Progress Continues…….
Despite the lack of updates here we can assure you progress is still firmly ongoing with the restoration, we’ve just been too busy down at the workshop to find time to sit at a computer.
The woodwork is now almost complete, with only the central support beam in the drivers side cab door still to do, unfortunately this does involve a full strip down of the door. The 12v electrics are 90% up and running. The new tyres are fitted to the old rims which have a quick coat of black paint on them. Some rotten metalwork in and around the cab has been replaced. The interior of the cinema space has been gutted and awaits soundproofing.
Photos to follow soon……………..
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.
Workshop update
Our big push towards the m.o.t test has moved a great deal closer this week with much of the preparatory work now completeted. The bulk of the work needed was carpentry and Hal has combined his efforts and skills with Jon to acheive a level of completion that puts us past most of the highly skilled tasks in hand, so what’s left is relatively simple work.
More photographs of the recent work can be seen in the M.O.T page in our ‘gallery’ section of the website. The series of photographs seen there take you through each stage of our recent developments, including the rebuild of a cab door, the rear corners of the body and an entire section of struts to support belly box doors and tin work.
Registration number KJU 267E reclaimed at last!
V5 registration document cover
For almost exactly a year now we’ve been carefully trying to jump through all the neccessary hoops in order to reclaim the original registration number KJU 267E issued to the mobile cinema in 1967, and today the crisp, new V5 dropped through the mail box.
The history behind the vehicle effectively ‘dissapearing’ is simple. In the past all vehicles were licenced through local authorities and in a transition to the centralised ‘DVLA’ some time in the seventies, our vehicle missed out on the re-registration process. The then owners – The Transport Trust, had the vehicle safely in storage where it was most likely presumed to spend the rest of its days, hence no need to update its road papers.
Vehicle details
Without any written proof such as an old tax disc or M.O.T certificate, the mobile cinema was effectively out of existence when we purchased it in 2005. In this situation we were advised to get a letter of provenance from each and every owner of the vehicle since new, along with an original photograph showing the registration number, accompanied by a current photograph and an inspection letter from a commercial mechanic.
Needless to say some of these tasks were easier than others but I’ll take this time to thank all of those involved with completing this process, as without any one of them we would never have reclaimed the number KJU 267E, which is such a fundamental part of a very important historic vehicle.
Road test for cinema gets closer…..
With help from all previous owners and some very kind historic vehicle enthusiasts we’re not far from taking a deep breath and taking the cinema for an extensive drive for the first time in over 35 years. First, we need to reclaim the licence plate from the DVLA, this was lost to the vehicle in the 1970′s when all vehicle records were centralised and KJU 267E was tucked up in storage with The Transport Trust and presumed never to need road papers again.
With this in mind I’d like to thank John Wakefield, The Right Honourable Tony Benn, Sir William McAlpine, Peter Rawlings, Rob & Nancy Howell and Mike Worthington-Williams. Each of these individuals has had an impact on the preservation of KJU and we look forward to sharing the cinema with many more people in the future.
Successful funding bid to operate mobile cinema in South West.
The Vintage Mobile Cinema company is part of a partnership project including North Devon Council museums department, South West Film and TV Archive and the Bill Douglas centre that has successfully won a funding bid from South West Screens to operate the mobile cinema as part of a film heritage project throughout the South West in 2010.
The expected launch of these collaborative efforts is expected to be spring 2010, with the cinema touring local villages, schools and major cultural events.
The emphasis in film content is on local heritage and we aim to bring relevant historical film footage to the doorsteps of those to whom it matters most, the local people. To further develop the poignancy of the work we intend to offer people a chance to have their spoken feedback recorded, so creating a dialogue between film and viewer which can later be added to the film. This is intended as an ongoing piece that will evolve with time as more commentary is added.
The inclusion of schools and colleges will bring fresh work into the mix, allowing for historical film preservation to play a part in education and inspiration for budding new talent to express itself locally.