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During the Russian Civil War between Communists and counterrevolutionaries. The renound early cinema pioneer Dziga Vertov helped establish and run a film-car on Mikhail Kalinin's agit-train. He had equipment to shoot, develop, edit, and project film. The trains went to battlefronts on agitation-propaganda missions intended primarily to bolster the morale of the troops; they were also intended to stir up revolutionary fervor of the masses.
1967 Bedford mobile cinema
In the late 1960s, Tony Benn, working under Harold Wilson's Labour government, commissioned seven custom built mobile cinema units for the Ministry of Technology campaign to 'raise standards' and promote British industry. The project was short lived and the units were sold off at government auction in 1974, most are thought to have been long since decommissioned and disappeared. However, one has survived via purchase by Sir William McAlpine to tour with the Flying Scotsman locomotive he rescued from America, who consequently donated it to the Transport Trust in 1975 where it was in safe preservation for 15 years. It has since been through a small succession of private owners and is now in a state of mid restoration and due for commercial relaunch as a vintage mobile cinema in March 2010.