Vietnam’s first cartoon-only cinema opened on January 9 in a state-of-the-art facility located in the downtown of capital Hanoi.
Thanh Giong cinema, which specialises in screening cartoons and run bythe Vietnam Cartoon Ltd Company, is equipped with modern digitaltechnology standard and capable of seating 150 viewers.
Thecinema will offer free screenings to audience on Saturdays and Sundaysin two weeks. After that tickets on Saturdays and Sundays will be soldat cheaper price while the week shows will be spared to schools withwholesale contracts.
According to Dang Vu Thao, chairman of thecompany's Executive Board, the company has produced hundreds ofanimated films in the past few years, only 50 of which have beenpublished in DVD forms while the rest have not been screened yet.
"We [the animated film makers] sometimes feel very sad as most of ourfilms cannot reach children," he told The Thao& Van Hoa(Sports&Culture newspaper). "No television station agree tobroadcast animated films, which doesn't bring along much profit.
"For example, in order to broadcast a foreign animated film, TVstations have to buy copyright and be responsible for the copyright. Inthe mean time, an enterprise who wants to advertise a product would bewilling to buy the copyright of a cartoon to broadcast on a TV channeland order the station to insert the advertisement in the middle of thecartoon.
"So, by that way, the TV stations don't have to buy copyrights and still have profit from advertisements."
Thao said the company had screened free to children in remote andmountainous regions and given free DVDs to local TV stations.
The company will also screen foreign cartoons and even movies at the newly-built cinema.-VNA
Thanh Giong cinema, which specialises in screening cartoons and run bythe Vietnam Cartoon Ltd Company, is equipped with modern digitaltechnology standard and capable of seating 150 viewers.
Thecinema will offer free screenings to audience on Saturdays and Sundaysin two weeks. After that tickets on Saturdays and Sundays will be soldat cheaper price while the week shows will be spared to schools withwholesale contracts.
According to Dang Vu Thao, chairman of thecompany's Executive Board, the company has produced hundreds ofanimated films in the past few years, only 50 of which have beenpublished in DVD forms while the rest have not been screened yet.
"We [the animated film makers] sometimes feel very sad as most of ourfilms cannot reach children," he told The Thao& Van Hoa(Sports&Culture newspaper). "No television station agree tobroadcast animated films, which doesn't bring along much profit.
"For example, in order to broadcast a foreign animated film, TVstations have to buy copyright and be responsible for the copyright. Inthe mean time, an enterprise who wants to advertise a product would bewilling to buy the copyright of a cartoon to broadcast on a TV channeland order the station to insert the advertisement in the middle of thecartoon.
"So, by that way, the TV stations don't have to buy copyrights and still have profit from advertisements."
Thao said the company had screened free to children in remote andmountainous regions and given free DVDs to local TV stations.
The company will also screen foreign cartoons and even movies at the newly-built cinema.-VNA
