South West Screen provides vintage mobile cinema for Melvyn Bragg series
South West ScreenSouth West Screen has helped BBC 2 in filming a new daytime show presented by Melvyn Bragg by supplying a restored vintage mobile cinema.
The 20-part "Reel History of Britain" tells the stories of life in Britain from 1900 to 1970 through the archive collections of the British Film Institute (BFI) and other national and regional film archives, including SWFTA in Plymouth. During the series, Lord Bragg will use the mobile cinema to travel across the UK.
Lord Bragg said: "At the turn of the last century one invention changed the way we recall our history forever – the motion camera. Thanks to Britain's pioneering filmmakers, we can still glimpse a world long gone."
The Vintage Mobile Cinema has been touring villages across the South West since last year, following its painstaking restoration in a project backed by South West Screen and the UK Film Council's Digital Film Archive Fund.
The Vintage Mobile Cinema is co-owned by Emma Giffard and Ollie Halls who will both feature in the programmes.
Sarah-Jane Meredith, head of creative and audience development at South West Screen, said: “We were immediately taken by the potential of the Movie Bus project and the dedication of the team to present archive film in a way that would really capture the imagination of audiences.”
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Went past this on the motorway the other day, wondered what it was?!
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I'm afraid that the headline of this story is very misleading. We run the mobile cinema as an independent business, and we were contracted directly by the BBC to supply the cinema for the series. We receive no external funding at all, although we are very grateful to South West Screen and the UK Film Council for funding a project (The North Devon Movie Bus Project) in 2009/10 which allowed us to deliver a significant number of archive film events in the first year of operation. Without the support that South West Screen provided for this particular project, we may not have had the confidence to complete what was a lengthy and difficult restoration, and was entirely privately funded. We hire the cinema out to many different events these days, and collaborate with many different organisations and companies, screening many different types of films, both archive and contemporary. South West Screen had enough faith in us at a very early stage to back our first operations, and we will always be grateful for their support and foresight, but they were not involved in the contraction of the BBC series. There is lots more information about the cinema and about its history on our website; www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk
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