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| Cine-Files: The Cinema Museum, London | Cine-Files: The Cinema Museum, London |
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| This week's Clip joint is by Owen Van Spall, an journalism graduate and MA Film and Television student at Birkbeck, University of London. Follow him @admiralowen. | This week's Clip joint is by Owen Van Spall, an journalism graduate and MA Film and Television student at Birkbeck, University of London. Follow him @admiralowen. |
| Is there a cinema you'd like to tell us about for a future Cine-files? Drop an email in the first instance to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk | Is there a cinema you'd like to tell us about for a future Cine-files? Drop an email in the first instance to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk |
| Location | Location |
| The Cinema Museum is located in Kennington, near to Elephant and Castle underground station. From there you have to wander through some out of the way streets and an apartment complex to get to the building in Dugard Way off Renfrew Road, so have a map app at the ready. | The Cinema Museum is located in Kennington, near to Elephant and Castle underground station. From there you have to wander through some out of the way streets and an apartment complex to get to the building in Dugard Way off Renfrew Road, so have a map app at the ready. |
| The building | The building |
| The building itself has an appropriately cinematic pedigree as the Victorian Lambeth workhouse, where Charlie Chaplin spent time as a child. Today the museum, along with its downstairs cinema and upstairs projection event space, houses a staggering treasure trove of artifacts, memorabilia and equipment that preserves the history of cinema from the 1890s to now. It's bursting at the seams with bric-a-brac. | The building itself has an appropriately cinematic pedigree as the Victorian Lambeth workhouse, where Charlie Chaplin spent time as a child. Today the museum, along with its downstairs cinema and upstairs projection event space, houses a staggering treasure trove of artifacts, memorabilia and equipment that preserves the history of cinema from the 1890s to now. It's bursting at the seams with bric-a-brac. |
| The clientele | The clientele |
| The museum's screening and events programme is both deep and broad, and industry experts and film historian talks are a frequent bonus. As a result, film connoisseurs are usually first in line. | The museum's screening and events programme is both deep and broad, and industry experts and film historian talks are a frequent bonus. As a result, film connoisseurs are usually first in line. |
| The programme | The programme |
| The museum does not operate as a regular cinema, and the building is open to the public for events only unless you specifically book a tour via the website. All films shown either downstairs (in the atmospheric 36-seat screening-room, with its old cinema seats and illuminated signage) or in the upstairs event space are usually part of themed ticketed events. These can range from Chaplin retrospectives to Japanese silent films, in 35mm or a variety of other film formats. Often visitors get a talk or some kind of bonus treat as part of the ticket price. There are regular bazaars and boot sales, book launches and gatherings for specialist collectors. The February schedule includes a screening of a 1924 silent version of Peter Pan with musical accompaniment and a Sunday double-bill of Dallas with cocktails. | The museum does not operate as a regular cinema, and the building is open to the public for events only unless you specifically book a tour via the website. All films shown either downstairs (in the atmospheric 36-seat screening-room, with its old cinema seats and illuminated signage) or in the upstairs event space are usually part of themed ticketed events. These can range from Chaplin retrospectives to Japanese silent films, in 35mm or a variety of other film formats. Often visitors get a talk or some kind of bonus treat as part of the ticket price. There are regular bazaars and boot sales, book launches and gatherings for specialist collectors. The February schedule includes a screening of a 1924 silent version of Peter Pan with musical accompaniment and a Sunday double-bill of Dallas with cocktails. |
| Pricing | Pricing |
| Tickets for events vary but are usually £10 (£7 concessions). | Tickets for events vary but are usually £10 (£7 concessions). |
| Further comments | Further comments |
| Seeing the museum itself is part of the whole experience of attending a screening, with a great deal of memorabilia on show around the building. Co-founder Ronald Grant started the collection off by saving from destruction a significant quantity of artifacts belonging to the James F Donald cinemas in Aberdeen, where he once worked. These items are at the heart of the collection, which has since taken in everything from movie posters and prints to old perfumes used to scent cinemas in the days before deodorant. Some side rooms have boxes stacked to the ceiling. | Seeing the museum itself is part of the whole experience of attending a screening, with a great deal of memorabilia on show around the building. Co-founder Ronald Grant started the collection off by saving from destruction a significant quantity of artifacts belonging to the James F Donald cinemas in Aberdeen, where he once worked. These items are at the heart of the collection, which has since taken in everything from movie posters and prints to old perfumes used to scent cinemas in the days before deodorant. Some side rooms have boxes stacked to the ceiling. |
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