A Cotswolds man has converted his five-berth caravan into a cinema in his back garden.
According to the Cotswolds Journal, Oddington resident Robin King has installed two bona-fide cinema seats in the mobile home, where he enjoys his large collection of classic movies.
Since completing the conversion around a year ago, Mr King has staged more than 25 screenings for elderly residents in the local area, with many of the 1,500 movies he owns having been made between 1935 and 1965.
As well as using the caravan for screenings, he also visits community centres and old folks homes, where extracts from some of his rarer films – including a colour version of Casablanca – are enjoyed by audiences of up to 80.
The former estate agent explained that he gets a sense of satisfaction if an elderly person says his screenings have brought back memories.
“You can’t beat that. It’s the pleasure of hopefully giving pleasure to somebody else [that makes me do it],” he told the newspaper.
Casablanca was released in black and white in 1942 and starred Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine – proprietor of Rick’s Cafe.
