Incredibly-detailed scale model of 1930s cinema

 Upl Birmmail Jun2012 5 2 596X447 Image-5-For-Cyril-Barbier-S-New-Street-Odeon-Gallery-961169785

 Upl Birmmail Jun2012 9 5 596X447 Image-3-For-Cyril-Barbier-S-New-Street-Odeon-Gallery-4016378

Birmingham, England's Cyril Barbier, 82, built a scale model of the huge Odeon New Street 1930s movie theater, complete with 2,600 seats, an organ that raises and lowers, and a curtain surrounding a 15" LCD to play movies of the era. The project has taken him nearly 30 years and it's so big, it can't even fit out of his bedroom door. The Birminghan Mail has a lovely slideshow of the model and brief article about it. According to Metro, Barbier hopes to sell it. "'I would hate for it to end up in a skip,' he said. 'Deep down, I built it to go into a museum.'