Save Our Cinemas – answers

1 Picture show; while we never use this nowadays, we still go to the pictures – go to the cinema, go and see a film.
2 Independently-owned and community-run cinemas.
3 Because they cannot afford new digital projection equipment.
4 Local businessmen and volunteers.
5 Band together – they banded together to do sth.
6 They took over buildings and continued cinema operations.
7 On the UK Film Council website.
8 240 and they were for installing digital projection equipment.
9 Because they are 1) run by commercial chains who 2) did not need financial help because they were going to buy the equipment in any case.
VB a multiplex is a very large cinema that has a lot of separate cinema halls inside it.
10 He seems to be implying there has been a lack of discrimination about them, because the money has not reached the organisation it was supposed to support. In particular he points out that vulnerable cinemas have not been given priority over large cinemas that do not need help and are not at risk of closure.
11 The UK Film Council should refuse applications from multiplexes and concentrate on helping cinemas in small towns and in rural areas.
12 They ‘desperately need the money’.

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