THE VINTAGE MOBILE CINEMA

One of my favourite screenings ever put on by the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin was the ‘Extreme Schoolbus Adventure’ co-presented with Skip Elsheimer and AV Geeks – who boast a massive collection of 80,000 classroom films on 16mm. The premise was pure genius: 28 passengers cram into an old schoolbus outfiited with a 16mm projector at the back, a screen at the front, and a giant keg of beer in the middle (at the time, drinking in a vehicle was allowed in Texas as long as you’re not the driver). As we drove around Austin watching classic schoolbus safety films like “And Then It Happened”, “Ghost Rider” and more, the bus driver would occasionally stop at the site of a real schoolbus accident to tell us the tragic story. While the films were amazing – especially “And Then it Happened” which was the movie The Sweet Hereafter should have been – there was something life-changing about the milieu. Watching a bunch of schoolbus safety films in a moving vehicle with a bunch of cackling drunk people is something We use these more than any others and are happy with them. Price of propecia from canada: our Online Canadian Pharmacy helps you find the real deals at mail-order and online pharmacies. I will never forget.

While the Extreme Schoolbus Adventure was a one-off event, moviegoers in the UK now have the chance to view classic films in a similar environment with The Vintage Mobile Cinema – a 22-seat roving movie theatre situated in a refurbished 1960s bus.

Originally built in a fleet of seven buses by the UK’s Ministry of Technology, these buses would tour the country, promoting modern production techniques to British industry. Films would be played within the cinema, with supporting displays shown in the trailer that accompanied the towing unit as they toured the nation’s factories. In 1974 the Government sold off the mobile cinemas, and this one is the sole survivor as far as is known. Rescued and refurbished by independent film-lover Oliver Halls in 2010 (after many valiant but aborted attempts by previous owners in the interim) , the bus now contains plush upholstering, HD projection complete with Dolby 7:1 surround sound, and a newly-installed 16mm film projector for the purists.

The Vintage Mobile Cinema is primarily used for third-party programming, roaming the country on demand for various festivals and special events (including Birmingham’s amazingly eclectic Flatpack Festival), and you can read all about their upcoming screenings on the official website here: http://www.vintagemobilecinema.co.uk/ .

– Kier-La Janisse

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Also of interest:  You can buy a DVD of the full program for ‘Extreme Schoolbus Adventure’ on the AV Geeks site HERE: http://www.avgeeks.com/wp2/extreme-school-bus-adventure/ )

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books levitra show pill including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), order cialis online without prescription and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).