Thursday, August 6, 2009
Smallest cinema-world record set by the Market
Cinema
COVENTRY, UK -- Measuring just 3m by 2m,
the Market Cinema
seats just four people, has a 122cm
by 213 cm screen (and is one hundredth the size of an average
100-seater cinema)- setting the NEW world record for the Smallest
cinema
.
The Market
Cinema in Coventry
- once a derelict indoor stall in the
city's market - officially opens for its first showing at
10.00am on Friday the 14th August with free candy floss and
pop-corn for the opening performances. ( enlarge
photo
)
Featuring films about the stall holders
and customers, the world's
smallest cinema
it is the brainchild of market manager
Brian Sexton.
Brian, who also manages Coventry Market, said:
"The stall was empty for years and I had an idea of turning
it into a miniature cinema."
The short films will be free to view on
the 84-inch screen and shown on a two-hour loop until Christmas.
They include Coventry Market – The
Musical, made by BBC Coventry and Warwickshire earlier this
year, and Around Market People, a documentary commissioned
by the market in 1999. Also showing are unseen short films
I Could Have Been a Factory Worker and Nights Around 50, which
have been made by local filmmakers.
Market Manager Brian Sexton had this
to say about this cinematic marvel. "We have commissioned
films about the market in the last thirteen years, one for
40th birthday and the, the famous Coventry Market the Musical,
for the 50th birthday celebrations. Many people have never
had a chance to watch them, so how do you get people to watch
them, you put them in a cinema, and so we have built our very
own Market Cinema for that purpose. It's a two seater but
we can bring in a couple more seats if it gets busy" he joked.
Brian continued, "We are hoping that people
will pop in for ten minutes, here and there during their shopping
trips, maybe buy an ice cream from the stall next door and
enjoy our films. It's a two hour loop, so the chances of seeing
repeated footage is not very likely, but it gives people a
chance to see the story and social history that has been made
about the market".
"The market is about the community it
serves and how will we remember that unless someone bothers
to capture it. That is the key to what we have done with the
cinema and by letting people see the stories.”
If the world's
smallest cinema
is successful Mr Sexton is hoping to work
with students at local colleges and other young filmmakers
to show their creations on the screen.
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Thursday,
August 6, 2009
