Mobile cinema to set up at Ring Quest event at West Stow

A mobile cinema is all set to operate at the Ring Quest event being held at the West Stow Anglo Saxon village during half term week.

The Abbeygate Cinema is screening four films between February 17 and 27 as part of “The Moving Cinema” campaign.

February 2002 saw the first ever Ring Quest event take place at the Anglo-Saxon Village and has always been a family friendly event, awakening all ages to the special magic that is Tolkien’s world.

Now, 20 years on, Ring Quest will celebrate this milestone with an event that’s bigger and better than ever.

“The Moving Cinema” will be complementing the Ring Quest event from Thursday, February 24, with screenings of the 2019 film “Tolkien”, starring Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins, plus screenings of Peter Jackson’s Lord of The Rings trilogy, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, “The Two Towers” and The Return of the King”.

Go to abbeygatecinema.co.uk for showtimes and tickets.

Designed and created by Toutenkamion in France, “The Moving Cinema” is a purpose-built mobile cinema in the form of an HGV truck and is one of only three units in the UK.

Once parked and connected to an electrical supply, the specialist hydraulics extend the sidewalls of the trailer making the unit an extra 12ft wider.

With the cinema screen then swung into place, and partition walls unfolded into position, the trailer is now converted into a 100-seater, fully heated/ventilated/air conditioned and weather proof auditorium, that the audience enter and sit within in comfort.