Welcome to Coinlife
This website has been created to promote some of the local facilities, activities, special events and services that might be of interest to the English speaking community in Coin & surrounding areas...              More

Foreigners’ Department
You can  now get assistance in English at Coin Council....         More

New discount offers from Coinlife - check out some of the new discounts available locally.....                                  More

Film Review & trailer
The next film in English at La Trocha is yet to be confirmed.  We are currently waiting fore film distributors to advise us about available English soundtracks..                      More

English Library Books
The Municipal Library in Coin now has a section of Foreign Language books, and it’s free to join! ..... More

What’s on/Coming up..

Volunteers still needed to be ‘usherettes’ at the cinema A couple of people have volunteered to help out but we need more... Do you fancy helping people find their seat numbers at the cinema?? Contact Ricky...

And from you...
Local services - If you’ve had excellent service locally and want to tell others - now is your chance!
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‘What’s on’.

Ever wondered how the films are run at your local cinema?  It may not be as high-tech as you’d have thought!

Believe it or not, films are still shown on projectors using old fashioned style film - not DVD discs!  The image quality that you get by passing light through framed film sequences is still better than they can achieve from digital media such as DVDs or any kind of digital movie file for the big screen.

Each film is transferred at the cinema, from the tightly wound spool to a larger spool that can be loaded onto a spinning ‘plate’ (a big, round, 3 tier, metal table)  that sits next to the projector.  The film is manually fed through the projector mechanism, past the projector light and the sound pick-ups.  As it is played, the film is rewound onto a second plate spinning below the projector.

The sound for the film is actually recorded in analogue form alongside the exposed frames on the film and is read by the projector as the film passes through the machine. You can see the sound recording as very thin strips running through the film material between the frames and the square cut outs along the edge of the filmstrip. The sound reproduction from this analogue source is generally believed to be better quality than the sound you get from a digital source, giving a ‘rounder’ , more complete sound.  

As  the  soundtrack  for  all
the films supplied to the cinema comes attached to the film, for the English films, a separate sound source is needed.  This comes on a CD style disk that is played in sync with the running of the film.  When a separate soundtrack is used, the film is wound through a different route around the projector mechanism so that the Spanish soundtrack is not played.  

The CD disk with the English soundtrack is played from a large, freestanding Sound Control Device that sits alongside the projector.

AND that is why we always have our English films in ‘Sala 5’ at La Trocha - it is the only one of the 7 screens and 7 projectors that has
the ability to play the separate soundtrack disks.

When films arrive at the cinema they come tightly wound in flat, round plastic containers. The length of the film can literally be measured in feet - Benjamin Button is actually 14,923+8
( feet + frames ).