Comments on: Crazy Cinématographe - Travelling Cinema in Europe

By: urbanora

urbanora — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:44:56 +0000

Just published is Travelling Cinema in Europe. Sources and Perspectives, edited by Martin Loiperdinger, details here:
http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=23744&L=0.
I’ll be writing something about this book in due course.

By: Ali Amer

Ali Amer — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:55:01 +0000

I am currently studying Film and English and entering my third year. As a proposal for my disertation i have chosen the subject of travelling cinema to write on. I was wondering if anyone has any material on travelling cinema theory, weather this be general information or preferably writings on this medium. I would be much grateful if someone could give me a link or point me in the right direction.
Thank you so much
Good faith

Ali-aliamer85@hotmail.com

By: Nikos Theodosiou

Nikos Theodosiou — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:17:02 +0000

I have just completed my new film “Mr Leonardos and the travelling cinema”
Is a documentary about the thravelling cinema in Greece. The duration is 67min.
Anyone who’s interested about the film don’t hesite to contact me at nikos.theodosiou@gmail.com

By: Ulrike Bliefert

Ulrike Bliefert — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:53:51 +0000

Hi,

I´m planning a (fictional) movie about travelling cinema in rural Northern Germany in the mid-fifties.
If you have any information where documentary material about travelling ciname after WWII is available, would you please contact me?
Thank you very much!

Kind regards Ulrike Bliefert

By: urbanora

urbanora — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:30:14 +0000

Europe, India, Mexico, USA, Canada… there’s a rich history here of the travelling cinemas of the past and those such as yourself who are keeping up the tradition. Someone ought to be writing down the history, or something. There’s something noble, and very much in the spirit of early cinema (before there were cinemas) of taking the films to the people by whatever form you can. Good luck to you!

Luke

By: Hunter

Hunter — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:27:00 +0000

Wonderful to read about this conference and to know that there are people who are enthused with the early traveling cinemas. There are still a few traveling cinemas in Mexico, known as Hungaros. They aren’t Hungarian, it’s just a word many Mexicans associated with wandering travelers/gipsies.
I have my own traveling cinema, which I established in 1993. I travel with a folding screen, a sound system and a 16mm projector. My films range from early cartoons & silent short films, to music Soundies and a feature length documentary about art cars. I have presented nearly 700 free screenings, toring acroos the U.S., Canada and the west coast of Mexico. Most of my tours have been by bicycle with a small cargo trailer. Upcoming tours will be by boat in the Caribbean. So far I have been funding my cinema and intend for it to always be free admission.
-Hunter, founder International Migrant Filmworkers

By: urbanora

urbanora — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:52:23 +0000

Congratulations on those fabuolous visitor figures, and great to hear the conference was a success too. I’ll post a reminder about the DVD, but maybe you might be able to send me a conference and/or show report (or use something you may have preprared elsewhere) for The Bioscope? It would be great to have some sort of eye-witness account. Or any pictures?

Luke

By: Vanessa Toulmin

Vanessa Toulmin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:12:06 +0000

the Crazy Cinematograph Show has now opened in three venues Trier, Saarbrucken and Luxembourg at part of the celebrations of the Luxembourg and Greater Region Capital of Culture 2007. I’ve just returned from Luxembourg where over 9000 people visited the show in the tent of the three weeks of the fair and added to the three thousand in the other two places over two weekends gives an amazing 12,000 people who have seen travelling cinema return to the fairground. The DVD is now out and the show goes to tow more places - its truly amazing if not unforgetable including the experience of seeing the films projected at the right speed complete with lecturer and animators and of course the tent itself. The conference was very interesting and discussed the varying aspects and roles of fairground cinema, travelling shows and the varieties of cinema exhibitors who go under the banner of travelling and how long these shows continued. Great conference, great discussions and looking forward to the book