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Sun Screen
Nicola Flanagan joins Jerry Morgan, proprietor of the Groovy Movie Picture House, to celebrate 10 years of delivering an eco-friendly, eco-conscious cinematic experience
The excited chatter softens to a low murmur. The lights go down and the screen lights up, bringing the magic of the silver screen to life. This is not the local Odeon. This is the Groovy Movie Picture House, the world’s first mobile solar powered cinema. We are eating cake not popcorn, drinking tea not soda, and we lounge on coconut mats. In the 10 years since its birth, the GMPH has become a much loved feature of the festival circuit. Yet, as the crowds stream into the beautiful custom made, blacked out marquee, it is easy to forget the humble beginnings from which this grand lady came. Proprietor Jerry Morgan, 40, explained that he was motivated to start the GMPH after he experimented in projecting cult classic feature films onto the side of a truck, in a muddy field at the Harvest Fair in Wales. It proved surprisingly popular and the GMPH was born. He said: ‘We bought a small, baggy, third-hand army marquee and persuaded a few festivals to book us.’ Searching for means to power the cinema, Jerry found alternative technology was perfect for his needs. He explained: ‘We were inspired by the new environmental/technological arts scene at the Big Green Gathering and Glastonbury Green Futures Field and the Rinky-Dink pedal powered sound system. Running the cinema on solar power was the ideal solution for our electricity supply.’........
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