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MARKET Chile pedal-powered cinema activation
Photo: MARKET Chile (elmostrador.cl) — via elmostrador.cl

Market Chile — Efecto Pedal, Santiago

Chile, Santiago · Festival or event

Historical last verified 2026-09 One-time event, 6–8 November 2014; no evidence of a continuing Market Chile pedal-cinema operation was found.
Live-wire (ultracapacitor)
22 pedalling spots (minimum 12 participants)Documented
  • Priority dispute
  • Promotional figures labelled

No website linked — No website documented; this was a one-time 2014 event, not an ongoing organization.

Market Chile staged a licensed pedal-cinema event at Quinta Normal, Santiago, on 6–8 November 2014. Twenty-two pedalling spots, buffered by ultracapacitors, ran a 7 by 6 metre inflatable screen in full HD, with hand-cranks for disabled attendees, on technology from The Electric Pedals Experience of London.

Key facts

  • Pedalling spots

    22 (minimum 12 participants)1

    Documented

  • Buffer

    Ultracapacitors — 'El sistema no utiliza baterías'1

    Documented

  • Screen

    7 × 6 m inflatable, full HD1

    Documented

  • Priority

    Predates Efecto Pedal's Montevideo launch by about one month2,1

    Documented

“el primer espectáculo masivo que se realizará por primera vez en Latinoamérica”

The first mass spectacle to be staged for the first time in Latin America.

El Mostrador (Chile), 6 November 20141

A minimum of twelve participants had to pedal to run the show. The event took place one month before Efecto Cine launched Efecto Pedal in Montevideo on 4 December 2014 on the same licensed technology; that later deployment was reported as the "first world tour of cine a pedal".

Specifications

What do these labels mean?

FieldValueConfidenceSources
Pedalling spots22 stations (minimum 12 participants)Documented1
BufferUltracapacitors (no batteries)'El sistema no utiliza baterías' — the system uses no batteries.Documented1
Screen7 × 6 m inflatable screen, full HDDocumented1
Event dates6–8 November 2014Documented1
Priority claimel primer espectáculo masivo... por primera vez en LatinoaméricaResearch correction:A comparable claim was made a month later by Efecto Pedal (Uruguay), whose own 'first world tour' billing this event's earlier date contests; neither constitutes a verified world-first.Promotional / press-reported — not verified2,1
Map marking Santiago de Chile with a historical-event badge
Santiago2,1 Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus
Pedal station detail at a MARKET Chile event
Photo: MARKET Chile (elmostrador.cl) — via elmostrador.cl
Diagram of the Electric Pedals technology licence reaching both Chile and Uruguay
Electric Pedals technology → Market Chile and Efecto Cine2,1 Image: BicycleCinema.org, drawn from the research corpus
  • Night audience at an Efecto Pedal pedal-powered screening

    Efecto Cine / Efecto Pedal

    Active last verified 2026-09

    The Uruguayan launch, one month later, whose 'first world tour' claim this earlier Chilean event contests

  • Night open-air screening powered by a row of cyclists on LED-lit bikes

    Electric Pedals

    Active last verified 2026-09

    Same underlying licensed live-wire ultracapacitor technology

Descends from:Electric Pedals

Sources

  1. [1]El Mostrador (CL) — Market Chile event (2014)www.elmostrador.cl
  2. [2]La Voz (AR) — Efecto Pedal branded content (2018)www.lavoz.com.ar

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