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Author Topic: Mobile cinema in Scotland...holy cow! John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-14-2006 06:57 PM                     http://www.hi-arts.co.uk/screen-machine-history.htm This is the Screen Machine... Travels the highlands of Scotland. One hour to set-up and won't play anywhere closer than one hour to the nearest cinema. Very cool. There's a video on the site as well worth looking at. John  |  IP: Logged Robert Burtcher Expert Film Handler Posts: 194 From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Registered: Jun 2005 posted 04-15-2006 03:25 AM                     Very cool. Incidentally, there's a shot of the projector in the video... It appears to be a Cinemeccanica Victoria 5. (Pause the video at 1:07 and you'll see the projector)  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-15-2006 05:34 AM                        Yep I think Sound Associates did the supply and install.  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-15-2006 11:36 AM                     There are I believe plans afoot for more. There is also a mobiel unit which is basically a trailer full of projectors etc, the come and set up in the village hall or school gym hall. Some of hte very remote parts of the country are pretty innacessible to the Screen Machine, the roads aren't suitable for heavy vehicles, so an ordinary estate car plus trailer does the job. Screen Machine had a few problems, I don't know if they've been resolved, the Cp500 didn't take kindly to vibration when on the road, and the trucks complex hydraulic system has proved to be rather tempramental, so I am told.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 04-15-2006 04:41 PM                     Which page is the video on?- I've looked around the web site but I can't find it.  |  IP: Logged Adrian Steiner Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Baar, Switzerland Registered: Dec 2002 posted 04-15-2006 05:58 PM                     It's on http://www.hi-arts.co.uk/screenmachine. The centred text below the picture is the link.  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 05-05-2006 12:02 AM                        I think that is a really unique concept. Until I read this thread, I never even thought that something this unique could exist. Amazing how new ideas come around and actually happen.  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 05-05-2006 06:44 AM                     There is also an Irish Version  |  IP: Logged

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