a full restoration is now in operation as Vintage Mobile Cinema, based in the South West of England. In May 2015, the only remaining Vintage Mobile Cinema was sold and will be moving to its new home on the Hertfordshire/Buckinghamshire border. Mobile cinema was very popular during the colonial periods in Africa when Land Rovers were used as movie vans to transport a white linen screen, usually mounted on the Land Rover, a portable generator, a 16mm projector and mounted loudspeakers. In this way rural areas received propaganda and educational films, usually shown in the evenings during dark hours. Worldwide examples Sol Cinema The Sol Cinema is based in the UK and seats 8 people, leading it to be billed as the World's smallest solar powered cinema in 2010. It uses an LED projector showing short films in cinematic surroundings complete with usherettes; batteries to store the energy from the Sun to power the cinema. Their photovoltaic panels harness the sunlight, even as the films are being shown so they never run out of power. The Sol Cinema won a Digital Hero award for best use of sustainable technology in 2014. Total Film magazine listed the Sol Cinema at number 26th in the 'Best Movie Cinemas in the World'. Sol Cinema is booked to perform at Glastonbury Festival each year. It also tours throughout the UK and Ireland. The Irish travelling Picture show Harry McFadden, the only surviving son of five brothers of Jack and Florence McFadden (née Bradley ) has a wealth of information from his days travelling with his mother and fathers mobile picture show. The movies when Jack and' Florrie' started out were silent movies. The 'show' used horses back then. When the 'talkies' came in McFaddens had a large stock of movies, Buck Jones series, Flash Gordon, many westerns, comedies, all genres. They had enough film to last six weeks in a town. Transport changed, pneumatic tyres, stories of my grandfather Jacks' unease at changing from timber wheels, horses replaced by trucks. Years ago Harry had the opportunity to meet Daniel Day Lewis not too long after his movie the 'Last of the Mohicans' was released and he was able to discuss with pride to Daniel how his family had shown the original movie. Stories are told how, in many rural areas people would flock just to see the electric light bulb that came on when