Marking its 25th anniversary, the town’s only cinema has benefited from major renovations to its foyer area, cinema screens and entrance hall.
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00:00 So I'm speaking to the General Manager of View Cinema today in Hartlepool, Darren Williams.
00:05 Darren, do you want to tell me a bit about what improvements have been made to the cinema these past few months?
00:10 Yeah, definitely. The cinema is 25 years old and has served the people of Hartlepool very well.
00:16 But after 25 years with technology and progressions in cinema, as you can imagine, we were ready for a bit of a facelift.
00:27 The cinema has undergone a full refurbishment.
00:32 From walking through the front doors, you'll see a modernised welcoming greeting area through into our new foyer
00:39 with the refurbished concession stand offering where the customers can basically help themselves to their own drinks
00:48 with freestyle machines by Coke, offering over 100 flavours, pick and mix, tango ice blast,
00:55 as well as a fully redesigned concession stand itself.
00:59 All seven screens have been fully refurbished with Italian leather recliner seats.
01:05 We now have just under 600 seats within the site.
01:09 And I think you'll agree the seats are pretty impressive.
01:14 And the feedback I've had since we've undergone the refurbishment is that the seats are amazing.
01:20 I agree. I'm not going to deny that.
01:23 So, yeah, so we've had quite a lot of work, which took best part four months to complete.
01:30 But now it's done. I'm glad that we can get it out there and get it shown to the public.