Story By: Alex Cope, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report

This is the tiny cinema made out of cardboard and used clothing a Chinese man has made to watch films at home after all the cinemas in the country were closed due to the coronavirus.

The man, identified in reports by his surname Leng, 30, made the tiny cinema in his home in the city of Qingdao in the Shandong province of East China after all cinemas in the Chinese mainland were closed in late January to prevent the spread of coronavirus, officially called COVID-19 by the World Health Organization.

The cinema is made from a cardboard shell and is complete with dozens of tiny seats coated in red fabric.

Leng even created a cardboard ‘person’ who he can move across the screen to replicate a fellow cinema-goer walking to their seat.

A mobile screen completes the scene and the creator watched the recent hit Lost in Russia on his home cinema whilst eating popcorn.

Leng, who works as a graphic designer, said: “I am really eager to watch movies at cinemas, which I have not visited for two or three months,”

He added that the cinema only took him one day to make and he used old clothing as well as cardboard and paint.

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