Film in the news

I have just been looking at the various local blogs and newspapers, the links are all on the sidebar, one rather worrying story is that The Granville Theatre and Cinema is in financial trouble.

It would seem that while Margate has two theatres heavily subsidised by the council, the council wont even let Ramsgate’s only remaining theatre have the rent relief it needs to survive.

Thanet Star reports that the film Thanet Under Threat is on youtube, it’s evidently been there for quite some time but has only had 240 views, so I imagine it needs a bit more publicity. It contains some fantastic archive footage of holidaymakers in Thanet so is well worth watching regardless of you views about property development in Thanet.



Finally having seen today in the paper that Kent County Council are considering spending another £400,000 of our money on its Kent TV site, where presumably the most important aspect of this site is to show local democracy in action, I was pretty amazed to hear from Thanet District Council that although Kent TV would host video footage from members of the public for nothing, they would charge Thanet District Council to host videos of their council meetings.

So here in Thanet having paid dearly for a government run video website, some of the local video footage we would most like to see isn’t there.