The first screen was 42 feet high and 50 feet wide. The top of the screen was 60 feet from the ground. Size of second screen built later on unknown(possibly the same as the first screen?)?
The Bencubbin Drive-in was built for £3000 Australian Pounds on 3 and a half acres, and opened by the Hon G. M. Cornell M.L.A. prior to a free film screening!
The Orana Drive-in had spaces for 400 cars! The screen measured 80 feet by 36 feet! The Orana Drive-in cost £7000 Australian Pounds to build on 15 acres of bushland! The first manager of the Orana Drive-in was Mr Ron Crispe! The Orana Drive-in was opened by Hos Worship the Major of Albany, Mr J. A. Barnesby M.B.E at 7.30pm.
There used to be a building on the corner next to the 2 shops and laundomat that the theatre and gardens might have been attached to(there was signs that something was attached to the shops side of the building!). The building was demolished in 2016, and is now a small park and 2 big ad billboards as seen in the photo to the right!
Sun Pictures appears briefly at the begining of the film “Bran Nue Dae”! There has been a stage production of Bran Nue Dae at Sun Pictues! There may have been other theatre preformances(plays, mudicials etc) at Sun Pictures?
The first screen was 42 feet high and 50 feet wide. The top of the screen was 60 feet from the ground. Size of second screen built later on unknown(possibly the same as the first screen?)?
The Bencubbin Drive-in was built for £3000 Australian Pounds on 3 and a half acres, and opened by the Hon G. M. Cornell M.L.A. prior to a free film screening!
The Orana Drive-in had spaces for 400 cars! The screen measured 80 feet by 36 feet! The Orana Drive-in cost £7000 Australian Pounds to build on 15 acres of bushland! The first manager of the Orana Drive-in was Mr Ron Crispe! The Orana Drive-in was opened by Hos Worship the Major of Albany, Mr J. A. Barnesby M.B.E at 7.30pm.
The Northam Town Hall is used when Bernard Park can’t be used to screen movies when it rains!
The base(floor) of the cinema building may still be there?
The cinema building is all gone except for a wall against the building on the southern side of the site(next building along Barrack Street).
Why was it called Frinton?
Why was it called Puget Park?
Why was it called Rosecrans?
There is an articule about Sun Pictures in todays West Australian Newspaper(Today section – pages 1 and 7).
Maybe it was very dusty? Maybe a printing error?
Is the Thunderbird Mini building still there and used for anything? I haven’t heard of a members only theatre before!
The front of the building looks it had caught on fire!
Northeast corner of Main Street and Green Street and Scarbourgh Beach Road.
There used to be a building on the corner next to the 2 shops and laundomat that the theatre and gardens might have been attached to(there was signs that something was attached to the shops side of the building!). The building was demolished in 2016, and is now a small park and 2 big ad billboards as seen in the photo to the right!
Sun Pictures appears briefly at the begining of the film “Bran Nue Dae”! There has been a stage production of Bran Nue Dae at Sun Pictues! There may have been other theatre preformances(plays, mudicials etc) at Sun Pictures?
Whats there now(if anything?)?
This might be the drive-in i read or heard about that had a bushfire behind it while screening the “Towering Inferno”!
Alas poor Warwick, anyone know it well!?
Some speakers were stolen from this drive-in in April 2016! Unknown if they have been found?
The drive—in has upgraded to digital projectors(date unknown?).
Odd name! Sounds a bit Three Stooges that name!
Did they ever show any film version of Cinderella here?
How did they get the letters on and off that tall marquee?
Did it ever show any film version of Cinderella?