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Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on April 29, 2014, 12:46 AM:

I went to the "videma" yesterday (to see a popular French film, "Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu ?") and was surprised by one of the commercials. It is intended to save a cinema that collapsed recently in Brussels and they ask people to give money. What is strange is that it was a cinema dedicated to X films and the ad reflects it (two men are in front of the cinema, they open their coat and you can see a small projector on the middle of their body that suggests the former programmation of the cinema, I think everybody understands what I mean). It is probably the kind of ads that could not be possible to show in many countries for censorship reasons...Look for yourself and donate if you wish to support the project (explained in English, too) to keep the cinema for "normal projections". http://www.abc-cinema.be/?page_id=443 In this extract (in French) of a local tv report, you can see the 35 mm reel that will go to...the cinémathèque ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTXmsk8DFQI

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on May 05, 2014, 11:47 AM:

The cinema ABC is saved. The organisators needed 60.000 euros to rescue the building and keep a cinema activity in it (with a different programmation, of course). Over 450 private donators gave 58.000 euros in about two weeks. Not bad for a small country like Belgium.

Posted by Mark Williams (Member # 794) on May 05, 2014, 11:55 AM:

Superb news Dom!! [Smile]

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