CINEMA-GOERS will finally be able to see films in 3D at York’s Reel Cinema from tomorrow, after the company installed projection equipment in the main auditorium earlier this week.

At the same time, work has started on creating a fifth screen and should be finished well before the school summer holidays.

Reel boss Kailash Suri said the first 3D film to be shown will be StreetDance, the first British dance movie and the first British film to be shot entirely in 3D.

It features Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity and has a star cast headed by Charlotte Rampling, with the story following the exploits of a London dance crew training for the UK Street Dance Championships, who are forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in return for rehearsal space. Reel’s move into 3D in the massive Screen One auditorium comes some time after York’s other cinemas, Vue and City Screen, introduced the new technology.

Mr Suri said this was just the latest in a continuing series of investments by Reel in the former Odeon cinema in Blossom Street, which was closed down several years ago – despite a campaign in The Press for it to be refurbished and stay open – and stayed closed and boarded up until Reel bought it and reopened it last summer.

The art deco Odeon had only three screens, and a fourth has already been opened upstairs by Reel.

Mr Suri said the fifth screen was now being created in the former Odeon shop downstairs, following the granting of planning permission in the spring.

The extra screen will allow the cinema to show more films and give it greater flexibility in moving movies around from screen to screen.

The next project, to increase leg-room in a section of the big auditorium, is likely to start later this year or early next year. “We are very committed to continuing improvements and are carrying out this work out of our own resources,” he added.