Almost 30 years have passed since one of the biggest films in history remarkably had its UK premiere in the Welsh town of Carmarthen - and now people can relive the excitement all over again.
It was back in the summer of 1993 when Jurassic Park, one of the highest grossing films of all time, had its UK release. Perturbed by the fact that it was not going to be shown in the only cinema in Carmarthen - the Lyric Theatre - the woman running the venue, Liz Evans, together with then-mayor, Richard Goodridge, decided to act.
They sent a fax to the film’s director, Steven Spielberg, explaining their displeasure and imploring him to do something to help. The rest, as they say, is history, so much so that Sky recently made a film about it called Save the Cinema. Not only did the blockbuster dinosaur film get shown in Carmarthen, it got shown in Carmarthen before anywhere else in the country. You can read the incredible story of how and why it happened in full detail here.
