Mobile cinema

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A mobile cinema is a cinema on wheels. An example is the Screen machine Mobile Cinema, which provides conventional up-to-date 35mm screenings of recent movies, with full digital surround sound, air conditioning, comfortable raked seating, and full disabled access. The French have their own Cinemobile system. There are also smaller mobile cinemas employing digital projection technology. Examples of these include the Gorilla Cinema solar powered mobile cinema, which enables projection in even more remote locations often taking place outdoors at night or housed in marquees and other temporary structures.

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Mobile cinema was very popular during the colonial periods in Africa when Landrovers were used as movie vans to transport a white linen screen that is usually mounted on the Landrover, a portable generator, a 16mm projector and a mounted loudspeakers. In this way rural areas are reached with propaganda and educational films which are shown usually in the evenings during dark hours.

Recently the first festival of CELLPHONE CINEMA in India was launched by the world renowned Asian Academy Of Film & Television in Noida which was a great success.

There was a mobile cinema on a train in Russia in the early 20th century.