Projected Picture Trust

The Projected Picture Trust cares for cinema projectors and other motion picture equipment. It aims to locate, rennovate, preserve and where possible exhibit motion picture equipment. It is located at the National Museum of Cinema Technology, Bletchley Park. The PPT was founded in 1978 at a time when many cinemas were closing down or being split into multi-screens, and a whole heritage of technology was in danger of being lost. It was registered as a charity in 1983. It now holds over 3,000 pieces of equipment, a number of which are loaned out on a semi-permanent basis to various organisations to enable the general public to see them and to save on storage space.