Smallest cinema on earth puts Britain in frame

Wednesday 01 May 1996 23:02 BST

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Britain's film industry is shrinking. When the world's cinematic gliterati jet into Cannes for this year's film festival they will head for the prestigious conference hall. But behind the scenes, a humble converted caravan will be flying the Union Flag, writes James Cusick.

Billed as "The smallest cinema in the world", the finishing touches to the mobile movie house are taking place in a railway arch in Battersea, London (right). After taking it to Cannes, Richard Kilgarriff and Emma Dugdal Moore (above) will move on to the Edinburgh Film Festival, then Utah, where it may play a supporting role in Robert Redford's Sundance Festival.

Photographs: Nicholas Turpin

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