Luna Drive IN Closing down

[Edward Nicielnik]

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=688336689764296

[Graham Ritchie]

That's a shame, David "was", I don't know if he still is, a member of this forum, a keen collector at the time of Super 8.

I remember he kindly sent me promotional stuff he had from Super 8 the movie

[Edward Nicielnik]

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[Steve Klare]

This is a real shame: places like this are a social hub for a community: who knows how many married couples in the neighborhood first met there? In this way, a Drive-In has a leg up on a hard top theater: in those, you stay in your seat, stay quiet and let the people around you just enjoy the movie (...hopefully). At a Drive-In, the families can stay in, or by their cars. The teens can split off and hang out by the snack bar. The younger ones can go to the playground. There's often a frisbee tossed around or a spontaneous ball game of some sort, especially before the show.

Besides, a movie theater has a certain magic to it and it's a loss when they go dark. Sooner or later somebody will drive past whatever replaces one, and the thought will spring into their head "I remember when...".

[Dave Bickford]

I didn’t go to drive-ins very much, but I enjoyed it when I did. Especially as a teen and young adult because you could bring in as much booze or weed as you wanted and not get in trouble! All kidding aside, it was indeed great fun. A very unique experience. The last movie I saw at a drive-in was Saint Elmo’s fire, so that would be 1985. At that point we had the audio on FM radio instead of the speakers we used to hang on the window.

Random side note: one of the external speakers I used for my first Super 8mm sound projector (B&H FilmoSound) was a speaker my older brother stole from a drive-in. It actually sounded very good!

[Osi Osgood]

Boy! That was a good idea, having some form of low range FM. Signal for the car, as, the sound could potentially be as good as your system will allow!

[Ed Gordon]

Drive-ins benefited greatly from the pandemic, so I thought the drive-ins which stayed open when traditional movie theatres closed were taking a hit when the pandemic subsided. However the article points out:

Six decades on and it’s still as popular as ever, welcoming 400,000 visitors a year.

Despite this, the Lunar will be screening its last film in six weeks as costs to operate the drive-in have soared.

It looks like the drive-in's location became too expensive to operate a business that only operated when it gets dark.

[Brian Fretwell]

Boy! That was a good idea, having some form of low range FM. Signal for the car, as, the sound could potentially be as good as your system will allow!

And stereo too without having to rewire the place.

[Rodney Bourke]

[Rodney Bourke]

Not long to go, only 9th July see "Now Showing"


https://lunardrive-in.com.au/

[Allan Broadfield]

Taxed out of existence by frantic land grabs.
Drive ins have never really been a thing in the UK, and the last blockbuster I watched was shared by about ten people in the auditorium in our local multiplex.
Makes one wonder that even with the initial costs of installing digital, would it have been even tougher if we'd carried on turning out 35mm prints - and I speak as someone who was made redundant by digital.

[Edward Nicielnik]

Just back from Luna Drive in I saw Dial of Destiny I enjoyed the Film this Sunday last day the weather was 10c

[Rodney Bourke]

There are 2 main Drive-ins left in Victoria see

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/austr...f7ceb166&ei=10

[Edward Nicielnik]

the end Luna Drive in today

https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSMelbou...88565011357345