Cinema inside lorry tours City of Culture

A lorry parked in a car park in front of some trees. The red lorry has the words 'travelling cinema' and 'the incredible moving cinema' on the side. A set of stairs up to a door into the lorry.
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The 100-seater truck is visiting various locations across the district.

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A cinema inside a lorry has been visiting various locations across Bradford to help bring films to people's doorsteps.

The attraction - named the Incredible Moving Cinema - arrived in the district as part of a partnership between the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and the National Science and Media Museum.

The articulated lorry transforms into a movie theatre that can seat up to 100 people and will park up at locations including Woodbank Garden Centre in Bingley, TFD Centre in Holme Wood and Horton Park Avenue car park.

It started its journey at the Bradford Industrial Museum where it showed films ranging from The Greatest Showman to classics like Pulp Fiction.

A woman with grey hair and wearing glasses and a brown and beige jacket stands in a car park in front of a red lorry with 'the incredible moving cinema' written on the side.
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Mary was one of the visitors who came to see The Penguin Lessons

The cinema is expected to attract hundreds of visitors during its eight day journey through the Bradford district.

One of those was Mary, who said: "It's not often you get a mobile cinema is it?"

"Not everybody has access, or gets to know what films are on, and Bradford isn't always accessible for everybody," she said.

Sandra, from Ilkley, said she had visited because she thought the venue was "unusual".

From Thursday, the moving cinema will be at Woodbank Garden Centre in Bingley where it will be screening seven films.

On Saturday it will move to Horton Park Avenue car park, before its final stop on Sunday at the TFD Centre in Holme Wood.

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