Click here to view a short promotional video
of Screen Machine: Take Two
(best viewed with a Broadband connection)
HI~Arts, the arts development agency for the region that commissioned the new machine, have been taking cinema to the region’s most remote communities since 1998 with the much-loved Screen Machine mobile cinema service. Since April 2005 Screen Machine: Take Two has been taking the mobile cinema experience to a new level.
The next generation eighty-seat, fully air-conditioned mobile cinema was built by French company ‘Toutenkamion’. Literally translating as ‘Everything in a Truck’, Toutenkamion specialise in custom-built vehicles, including mobile recording studios, restaurants and traveling galleries.
To create Screen Machine: Take Two, Toutenkamion used the tried-and-tested ‘Cinemobile’ design. The first Cinemobile was built by the company nearly twenty years ago, and is still on the road in France today. Now into its third-generation, the Cinemobile model used for Screen Machine: Take Two has been especially adapted for the Highlands and Islands, to meet the particular requirements of the regions’ roads and ferry crossings.
This flexible design coupled with a swift setup time gives Screen Machine: Take Two the potential to visit a different location each day – the new machine can be setup in just one hour. This almost doubles the number of venues across the region that the mobile cinema can serve regularly.
Inside the new mobile cinema, audiences will also see a wide range of improvements from the prototype Screen Machine I, including more comfortable seating, a larger screen and the latest surround sound processors.
What is more, accessibility has been greatly improved for Screen Machine: Take Two, with wider aisles, facilities for subtitling, a high-contrast colour interior to aid those with visual impairments, more headsets for audio-described screenings, and full accessibility with wheelchair positions centrally located towards to the rear of the auditorium.
Screen Machine: Take Two also offers a convenient method of ticket booking for audiences, courtesy of another of HI~Arts’ recent developments – thebooth online ticketing service (www.thebooth.co.uk ), which was launched in November 2004 and provides Screen Machine audiences with the facility to book tickets online or by phone for cinema screenings.
The Screen Machine: Take Two capital project has been funded by the Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Scottish Rural Challenge Fund, with funding for the operation of the mobile cinema coming from Scottish Screen and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. We are also pleased to acknowledge sponsorship from the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Whatever happened to Screen Machine 1?
As Screen Machine Take 2 tours the Highlands and Islands, Screen Machine 1 is certainly not parked-up at the great truck wash in the sky. The original Screen Machine is standing in for Eden Court’s Riverside Theatre whilst they are closed for a major refurbishment. Situated at the aquadome at Bught Park, Inverness, the pioneering vehicle is screening a diet of the best independent and arthouse movies.
From the end of 2007, once Eden Court has reopened its own cinemas, Screen Machine 1 will be available for hire as a temporary cinema venue, for any location in the UK. A brochure giving fuller details can be downloaded below.
To find out what’s showing at Screen Machine 1, click here and how to find it click here.
Click here for Screen Machine touring schedule
Tickets available at www.thebooth.co.uk
or by calling 01463 720890
(Mon-Fri 0930-1500hrs) |
