If you did not know, I'm working this year at the University of Westminster. I have been very lucky and the Polylang, the modern languages programme in which I am collaborating, is based in the original building at Regent Street.
What I did not know is that this was also the site of the first public film screening in the UK with an audience paying to see a film.
Now the University wants to recover the original cinema under what they call the "Regent Street cinema project" with the intention of (in their words) "transforming the birthplace of British cinema back into a multimedia facility and teaching space for our students and the wider community and putting Westminster back in the Heart of London."
Here is a video about this building and its implications for the cinema industry in the UK, which has been released with the campaign:
Here you also have a link to a slide presentation of the project:
