Movie fan Phil Watts completed the feat, which sometimes involved seven films a day, in lockdown.
A self-confessed movie fanatic watched more than 1,000 films in a year after losing his job in the first Covid-19 lockdown.
The son of a former cinema projectionist, he described himself as a "super geek" when it came to cinema.Mr Watts, who is also known among his film-watching network as "Not George Lucas" was working at woodworking firm Yandles, near Yeovil, when he was furloughed in November 2020 and made redundant the following January.
"There were some days when because of work or other reasons I didn't watch any, but on other days I could get through a few of the early Universal monster films as they are only about 70 minutes long. So on a good day I could watch about seven.
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