Photos favorited by davidcoppock

  • <p>Changes in 1955 included a Mancovision aluminum screen and widescreen presentation to accommodate CinemaScope and other widescreen film formats.</p>
  • <p>Updated Photo with description.</p>
  • <p>August 19th, 1947</p>
  • <p>Holiday info courtesy of Karen Eifler.</p>
  • <p>Copyright: Friends of the Boyd, Inc.</p>
  • <p>A busy night in 1950 at the Grandview Racing Bowl and Drive-in Theatre north of Bellevue.</p>
  • <p>Everett C. Petsch in the booth of the Grand View Drive-In 13 years after it had gone out of business.</p>
  • <p>Ad as the Grand View Drive-In</p>
  • <p>From an ad for the Adler Silhouette Letter Co. in the July 17, 1948 issue of BoxOffice.</p>
  • <p>August 14, 1981 print ad courtesy Stephen Leigh.</p>
  • <p>August 11th, 1971</p>
  • <p>May 27, 1949 Hastings Drive-In Theatre</p>
  • <p>Grand Opening of The BAY DRIVE-IN THEATRE, near Island Heights at Toms River, NJ, July of 1949, from The Asbury Park Press.
              Courtesy Patrick Leon Asay.</p>
  • <p>The Gala Opening Premiere of “Thoroughly Modern Mille” was held at the debut of the Odeon St. Martin’s Lane on 19th October 1967.  Attended by Mary Tyler Moore who ‘launched’ the cinema open with a bottle of Champagne, James Fox, Juliet Prowse, Beatrice Lillie, Gayle Hunnicut, David Hemmings, Roger Moore, Dame Edith Evans, Lionel Bart, Cecil Beaton and Ross Hunter.</p>
  • <p>Maribyrnong Hoyts Drive-In  Rosamond Road, Maribyrnong - VIC 1964</p>
            
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  • <p>Maribyrnong Hoyts Drive-In Rosamond Road, Maribyrnong – VIC 1950’s</p>
            
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  • <p>August 24th, 1948</p>
  • <p>The exact location of the Concord Auto Movies was across from Buchanan Field / Crown Plaza (today)  on Concord Avenue, the area where Heritage Square & Trader Joe’s is located now.</p>
  • <p>The old newspaper advertisement for the Concord Auto Movies.</p>
  • <p>1970</p>
  • <p>Chief Drive-In</p>
  • <p>1955 print ad.</p>
  • <p>Capri Theatrette 721 Hay Street, Perth, WA – 1969</p>
            
              <p>1969 – Presentation of a film cannister wrapped in ribbon containing a 16mm print of the BP production Tjilla Trail, being presented to Mr Charles Court, Minister WA for Development, (standing in front of the Capri proscenium) on the night of the premier screening at the Capri Cinema. Speeches were made by the BP Executive to an appreciative audience.</p>
            
              <p>The Tjilla Trail</p>
            
              <p>Summary of the Tjilla Trail regarding the building of the 265-mile railway linking the Mount Newman iron mine with Port Hedland, W.A., showing rapid mechanical construction methods with impressions of the country and its wild life</p>
            
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