Mobile cinema

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A mobile cinema is a cinema on wheels.

An example is the Screen machine Mobile Cinema, which provides conventional up-to-date 35mm screenings of recent movies, with full digital surround sound, air conditioning, comfortable raked seating, and full disabled access. The French have their own Cinemobile system. There are also smaller mobile cinemas employing digital projection technology. Examples of these include the Gorilla Cinema solar powered mobile cinema, which enables projection in even more remote locations often taking place outdoors at night or housed in marquees and other temporary structures. In Italy since 2006 mobile cinema for two viewers Cortomobile projects short films and animations in cinema festivals^[1] and has been protagonist of the First Car Film Festival (Florence) in March 2009.

History

In the late 60's, Tony Benn, working under Harold Wilson's Labour government, commissioned seven custom built mobile cinema units for the Ministry of Technology campaign to 'raise standards' and promote British industry. The project was short lived and the units were sold off at government auction in 1974, most are thought to have been long since decommissioned and disappeared. However, one has survived via purchase by Sir William McAlpine to tour with the Flying Scotsman locomotive he rescued from America, who consequently donated it to the Transport Trust in 1975 where it was in safe preservation for 15 years. It has since been through a small succession of private owners and is now in a state of mid restoration and due for commercial relaunch as a vintage mobile cinema in March 2010.

Mobile cinema was very popular during the colonial periods in Africa when Landrovers were used as movie vans to transport a white linen screen that is usually mounted on the Landrover, a portable generator, a 16mm projector and a mounted loudspeakers. In this way rural areas are reached with propaganda and educational films which are shown usually in the evenings during dark hours.

There was a mobile cinema on a train in Russia in the early 20th century.^{[citation needed]}

Recently the first festival of CELLPHONE CINEMA in India was launched by the world renowned Asian Academy Of Film & Television in Noida which was a great success.

Notes

^ Jessica Goethals. Film in motion finds its way through Florence. <<The Florentine.net>>, November 2, 2006

References

External links

Vintage Mobile Cinema

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[1] Jessica Goethals. Film in motion finds its way through Florence. <<The Florentine.net>>, November 2, 2006

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