South West Screen provides vintage mobile cinema for Melvyn Bragg series
South 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.”