Britains most unusual cinemas

[Redstar]

Following on from the lost cinemas thread has anyone got any suggestions for Britain's most unusual cinema?

[Steve Crook]

name='Redstar']Following on from the lost cinemas thread has anyone got any suggestions for Britain's most unusual cinema?

I'll open the nominations with the courtyard of Somerset House in London with the audience (of up to 2,000 people) sitting around in the courtyard and the film projected onto a screen about 3 stories high.



Of course it can only be used on a summer's evening. But it was great seeing A Matter of Life and Death there in August 2005



Steve

[smudge]

How about The Kinema-In-The-Woods in Lincs, or the Feckenodeon village hall cinema nr. Redditch...?



Smudge

[batman]

There used to be one in Ely which was in a converted swimming pool .... I don't know if it is till there. The screen used to be in the deep end (emptied of course) with the seats raking up towards the shallow end (also empty).



Our local ASDA did drive-in movie nights in the car park with a giant screen on the roof of the supermarket. They did a couple, the last one being Grease, but the local council banned them after complaints about the noise. They used speakers instead of those little microphone thingies .... I went to the Grease one, it was great!



Bats.

[penfold]

name='Steve Crook']I'll open the nominations with the courtyard of Somerset House in London with the audience (of up to 2,000 people) sitting around in the courtyard and the film projected onto a screen about 3 stories high.



Of course it can only be used on a summer's evening. But it was great seeing A Matter of Life and Death there in August 2005



Steve

Canterbury Cathedral was nice......best interior decor and no chewing gum on the seats....

[Steve Crook]

name='penfold']Canterbury Cathedral was nice......best interior decor and no chewing gum on the seats....

Very true - but the Archbishop was rotten as an usher. The ice-creams kept falling off his tray



Steve

[Hugo]

The Screen Room in Nottingham claims to be the world's smallest public cinema with 21 seats

[Steve Crook]

name='Hugo']The Screen Room in Nottingham claims to be the world's smallest public cinema with 21 seats

Do they still claim to have the smallest pub as well, The Old Trip?



Steve

[dremble wedge]

name='Steve Crook']Do they still claim to have the smallest pub as well, The Old Trip?



Steve

It's supposed to be the oldest not the smallest, but it's still a marvellous place.



The Nutshell in Bury St Edmunds claims to be the smallest.

[Steve Crook]

name='dremble wedge']It's supposed to be the oldest not the smallest, but it's still a marvellous place.



The Nutshell in Bury St Edmunds claims to be the smallest.

Ah yes, that was it. But I don't remember it being very big either.

And does Nottingham have more pubs per staggered mile than any other city? It certainly has quite a lot. Or did when I was last there, but that was a while ago now



Steve

[manager]

I remember one in Manchester when I was a kid called The Fourways, ... It was actually on a junction of 3 roads

[batman]

name='Steve Crook']Ah yes, that was it. But I don't remember it being very big either.

And does Nottingham have more pubs per staggered mile than any other city? It certainly has quite a lot. Or did when I was last there, but that was a while ago now



Steve

Norwich used to boast a pub for every day of the year and a church for every week.



I have been to The Old Trip and it is certainly small .... I don't know The Nutshell, but in Norwich there is a pub called The Vine which is just one room, about the size of an average terraced house sitting room.



How small is The Nutshell if it is smaller than The Vine?



Bats.

[Dave Rattigan]

The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall is unusual as a cinema; not historically, but nowadays, as it has the oldest and/or largest (if not only) art deco screen of its kind, that rises out of the stage at the start of every performance, and also has Britain's only remaining resident cinema organist, so far as I know.

[Cypher]

name='Steve Crook']Do they still claim to have the smallest pub as well, The Old Trip?



Steve

Is that the pub which used to be called The Trip to Jerusalem? (Perhaps its name has been changed in the interest of political correctness?)



C.

[Steve Crook]

name='Cypher']Is that the pub which used to be called The Trip to Jerusalem? (Perhaps its name has been changed in the interest of political correctness?)



C.

That's the one. It still is called that. It's actually "Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem". The abbreviation is nothing to do with political correctness. It's quite common to abbreviate pub names



Steve

[StrangeFruit42]

Can I add one here in Germany, even if it's not in competition with Britain's most unsusual cinemas?



The ''Orfeo's Erben'' here in Frankfurt. It's a students' cinema in the back room of a pub. The seats are old seats from planes, which means you can watch the film lying on your back. Plus - you can pull out those little tables and have beverages and meals from the pub while watching the film. And while going to the bathroom while the film is running, you can at least catch the sounds from the film through speakers in the bathroom, so you can't miss anything. The most comfortable cinema I know.

[Rob Compton]

The cinema in the Laurel and Hardy museum in Stan's home town of Ulverston, Cumbria, is pretty darned small!



rgds

Rob

[dremble wedge]

name='batman']Norwich used to boast a pub for every day of the year and a church for every week.



I have been to The Old Trip and it is certainly small .... I don't know The Nutshell, but in Norwich there is a pub called The Vine which is just one room, about the size of an average terraced house sitting room.



How small is The Nutshell if it is smaller than The Vine?



Bats.

It's supposed to hold 15 people tops. I've never been there but an old work colleague told me about it.



There used to be a pub on the way to the Baseball Ground that actually was a terraced house in the middle of a row of similar dwellings. It was called The Fleet but unfortunately it's now reverted to its previous status

[batman]

Sounds smaller than The Vine .... I've seen about 20-25 people in there.



Bats.

[benchcluttocks]

The weirdest most unusual cinema I ever went in was in Minehead, Somerset.

It was one of those very surreal moments in life. I don't think you could appreciate how wierd it was unless you have been there yourself ! This was back in 93-95. All I can remember now is a bloke in a vest and black trousers taking our money and us walking down a pink corridor where a child was playing with toys then we went through some doors into the "cinema" which was pitch black and absolutely freezing and I remember us all convinced that there was no roof ! I think we saw Last of the Mohicans possibly. Very strange place, not sure if its still there.