I love strange inventions of the past. On BBC news I saw this one: the cinema bus.
That's nice, I thought, for all those small UK country villages where it's so dark after five pm, that kids and teens are stuck at home, except when their parents drive them everywhere (who wants that all the time?).
But no, I was mistaken. This bus was build in the sixties by the English ministery of technology.
Huh?
The nice lady on the red BBC-couch (the one who's sitting so uncomfortable with her long skirt, afraid that someone can look between her legs) explained. The government wanted to teach British factory workers about future possibilities. Imagen them, making a bus, driving to the factories, ring the bell like an ice car, and show them a technological movie.
The movie bus is not only a UK sixties thing. In the US they build one also in the thirties. I think it didn't end well, because it appeared in the The Worlds Most Costly Blunders.
Maybe it's time for a new, modern cinema bus. How lovely that would be while travelling to the south.
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