A NEW life-sized caricature sculpture of film legend Alfred Hitchcock will be unveiled at an event to mark the 80th anniversary of the former EMD cinema in Walthamstow.
The McGuffin Film Society, which campaigns for the historic venue to be re-opened as a cinema, has organised the free one-day event, which will take place next to the building in and around Hatherley Mews on Saturday (September 18).
The event will feature an exhibition of designs for a revived cinema, including a proposal for Britain’s greenest picture house, alongside cinema inspired photography.
Plans to revive the cinema created when the building was temporarily put up for sale in 2006 will also be put on show for the first time.
There will also be a sneak preview of forthcoming documentary The Lost Empire, which looks at the story of the EMD.
The Hitchcock sculpture will be unveiled in the Victoria pub at 7pm. Screenings of documentary Alfred Hitchcock in East London and British comedy The Smallest Show on Earth, starring Peter Sellers, will follow.
The event begins at 3pm and will also feature a screening of the children’s film Fantastic Mr Fox in the Grove Cafe at 5pm.
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God hope to turn the venue into a church, but a recent council-commmissioned report said a revived EMD could be vital for the regeneration of Walthamstow
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