About this site

BicycleCinema.org documents pedal-powered cinema: the organizations that run it, the machines that make it work, the people who pedal, and the history of the practice. It is a reference, not a construction manual; no page gives build instructions.

Everything on the site comes from one research project: a structured search in six languages — English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Chinese — completed on 9 September 2026, with each organization's status checked against 2024–2026 evidence. The project's citation list is the site's registry of 233 sources, and every page ends in a Sources box listing the entries it draws on.

Every technical figure carries one of eight confidence labels — documented, measured, manufacturer rating, operator-stated, estimated, not disclosed, uncertain and promotional — and a promotional figure always appears beside the corrected one. The labels are defined in the confidence-labels explainer. Every organization carries a status (active, uncertain, dormant, paused, inactive, defunct or historical) and the month it was last checked. One historical UK collective, Magnificent Revolution, is documented but never linked: its former web address was found serving unrelated spam during the research ^1,2.

Comments and contributions are reviewed before anything appears; the moderation policy has the rules. To suggest a pedal-powered cinema the site has missed, or a correction, use the contribute form. The site carries no individual's byline.