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there was a big bang and on the screen

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you get the burnout but they kept

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bringing me glasses of wine and after

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the third real change in the fourth

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glass things went wrong you're taking it

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off already yeah man we we walked

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in in the heart of Hackney in London

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lies cine reel the only film club in the

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UK to exclusively play films in 60 mm

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format and it's co-run by this guy ask

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your bloody

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questions my name is umid

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Mesut Hassan that's the full name I have

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the best job in the world thanks to my

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granddad he gave me such a wonderful

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gift my granddad used to have a little

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Cinema in a little town in Cyprus maybe

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about 3,000 4,000 population and I would

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have been eight or 9 years old I would

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go inside the booth and he would show me

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something different every week you know

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I have to change the reals have to do

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repairs on broken film have to lace up

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the projectors and I just loved it to

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bits umit has formed an unlikely

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friendship with a film director my name

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is Liam s Pierre I'm a director I always

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love film but had come from I don't know

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like a workingclass family in the north

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of England it was never something that

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was on my radar as a career and then

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when I moved to Hackney probably in

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around 2007 I made friends with a couple

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of guys who were filmmakers and we

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started making films for fun the film

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was always like there in as a passion

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umit also runs a shop that's filled to

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the brim with old movies and projectors

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recently I learned about Photoshop Liam

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had to explain to me what Photoshop is

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so whatever film we're running I'm in

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the poster so these are the Ste bags

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Liam uses this sometimes to examine film

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and sometimes he does do editing on

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there we got a 100y old projector here

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which still works these are 35 mil yeah

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these are fully functioning

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there wasn't much in the way of health

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and safety then so the shutters on the

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outside just don't get your finger in

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there these are all featurelength films

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on super eight uh blood Island Plan 9

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Ray Harris and classic 1 Million Years

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BC I mean I mean sometimes customers get

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upset on these and they say how much is

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1 million us BC I said it's not for sale

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but you can hire it for a private

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screening few more projectors one of my

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favorites iy projector

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made in Osaka they're beautiful because

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they are so easy to operate so easy to

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lace up and the most

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important they are kind to film you know

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projectors we can replace films we can't

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so films we have to look after them this

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is the bit that people really love about

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the space we got a little hidden Cinema

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in the back um come through and I'll

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show it to you this seats about 17

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people and the seats are like 90 years

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old this used to be like a storage space

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you couldn't even see the walls or the

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ceiling so my very good friend Liam came

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up with this idea he said why don't we

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build a little Cinema people booked a

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space they choose one of our films they

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can bring their own food we have

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intermission halfway and um yeah

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everybody loves it so how did you guys

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meet I walk past Hackney City farm and

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in a bin there was a super eight

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projector and I remember thinking this

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is a sign from The Cinematic gods and I

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brought the projector in they kindly

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fixed the projector for free but was

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like super Eight's okay 16 mm so much

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better and I've got this wonderful 16 mm

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projector here 450 quid 400 yeah bloody

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bloody bargain sir and then was like

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let's put on a film night together and

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what did you say well flat out I said no

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so then I ended up borrowing a print of

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draws went and did this screen in little

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Gallery but they kept booming me glasses

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of wine and after the third real change

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in a fourth glass things went wrong you

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ended up like Peter cellers the drunk

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projection Earth so then I went back to

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the shop and pleaded and said look I'll

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pay you whatever just come down for once

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and then at the end of the night you

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just said to me what time next month and

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then that's that's it ever since I

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remember it like yesterday there was a

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young lady there there with her parents

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I don't know 15 16 she said thank you

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very much I've never seen a film

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presented like this and that really made

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it for me wow Liam look what I found

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Bonnie and Clyde there can't be many

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screenings of this done nowadays on 16

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mm print so there you go Bonnie and

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Clyde uncut on 16 mil don't be late

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which one of you guys came up with the

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name cine I chose it he didn't like it

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no I like it you just didn't like the

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way I spelled it real as in rou e l

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would have been better but re a l works

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as well C real it's catchy I didn't like

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it at first but I do nowadays good and

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then it was a lot of years of kind of

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lugging projectors around even first

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screeners I remember going into my

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flatten I'm to bring chairs and stuff

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like that no chairs don't to like every

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screening would have carry the screen

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hang a screen hang a screen wield a

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projectors and sometimes you know we've

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been doing it for a few years and you

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might not get a great turnout it could

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have been like four or five people and

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it's like what are we doing yeah we've

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had some of those yeah and then it just

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got bigger and bigger and then when we

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went to the castle it then is just oh

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well off Castle is beautiful the castle

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they're referring to is the Hackney

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Castle Cinema an independent and

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Community funded Cinema that's been

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around since

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1913 we only show film on film so 160

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mil or Super Eight you're taking it off

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already yeah man we we walked

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in cinemas used to introduce movies and

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take questions from the audience and

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this is exactly what um and Liam are

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trying to bring back it's a presentation

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it's Showmanship which doesn't happen

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much nowadays sadly you know they just

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want to get you in and get you out they

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want to do four shows a day five shows a

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day because a little Q&A a little intro

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in intermission this all takes up time

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but this is what it used to be this is

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how film was presented we have a raffle

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so your seat number is your raffle

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ticket you win a bag so you go to shop

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with a bag got some tote bags some mugs

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mugs and then two free tickets to next

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month screening but a standard screening

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doesn't always go to plan we showed

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Night Living Dead and halfway through it

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there was a big bang and on the screen

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you get the burnout so we have to change

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projectors and then at the end of the

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night we said like oh sorry about cuz it

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took about 15 20 minutes sorry about

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that and some woman stood up and said uh

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I've been waiting my whole life to see a

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burnout and I saw a burnout so thank

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you this unlikely friendship has created

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an amazing film club that will hopefully

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continue for many years to come we're a

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bit of an odd couple together I probably

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speak to him probably the most out of

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anyone it took him a while to warm up

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when I first suggested maybe doing a

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film night together that relationship

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over time really developed I hope you

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enjoy Chinatown an original film thank

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you I'm glad really that he decided to

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walk in over the months and years we

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became good friends is just a wonderful

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wonderful wonderful guy I always joke

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and I say he's not heavy he's my brother

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Liam thank you very my man thank you

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very much for walking into my life

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