  Artists, using an empirical knowledge, manage to generate and play with giant
soap films and bubbles. Until now, scientific studies of soap films generated
at a controlled velocity and without any feeding from the top, studied films of
a few square centimeters. The present work aims to present a new setup to
generate and characterize giant soap films (2~m $\times$ 0.7~m). Our setup is
enclosed in a humidity-controlled box of 2.2~m high, 1~m long and 0.75~m large.
Soap films are entrained by a fishing line withdrawn out of a bubbling solution
at various velocities. We measure the maximum height of the generated soap
films, as well as their lifetime, thanks to an automatic detection. This is
allowed by light-sensitive resistors collecting the light reflected on the soap
films and ensures robust statistical measurements. In the meantime, thickness
measurements are performed with a UV-VIS-spectrometer, allowing us to map the
soap films thickness over time.

Soft Condensed Matter