Metro Twin Drive-In 355-357 Waterloo Road, Sydney, NSW
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Metro Twin Drive-In 355-357 Waterloo Road, Sydney, NSW - Photo courtesy of - History c/o Club Vee Dub Sydney
The Walt Disney film ‘The Love Bug’ debuts in Australia 1969, just in time for the Christmas school holidays. An opening night showing at the MGM Metro Twin Drive-in at Chullora in Sydney attracts 400 Volkswagens, completely filling the south field - Contributed by Greg Lynch -
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This is a photo of Field 2 with the houses behind the screen in Norfolk Rd.
I wish to remark about Field 2’s screen. This photo has been replicated on various sites.
As I recall, at the bottom of Field 2’s screen, there was a green border of “two panels height”. I believe that may have been designed to prevent light from the projection box ‘interfering’ with the amenity of those residents directly behind the screen.
The photo depicted from a scene in the movie “The Love Bug” shows what is purported to be the projected image over the green border.
Generally, there was hardly any projection of the image on the green border at the bottom of Field 2’s screen.
If there was a projection of part of the image on the green border at the bottom of Field 2’s screen, then that portion of the image would have been darker than the white surface of the screen above the green border.
Therefore I believe that the purported projected image from a scene in “The Love Bug” movie was altered for artistic purposes.
Recall there was a green border of two panels height at the bottom of the screen and that any portion of the image projected on a non-white surface would be darker than the image projected on the white portion of the screen.
It would have been more authentic if Field 2’s screen was shown with its green (grey for b/w photo).
Thank you,
Anthony of Belfield
Further evidence to support that the picture depicted of Field 2’s screen being altered is that the aspect ratio of “The Love Bug” is 1.75:1 while the aspect ratio of the screen is 2.20:1 (see reference to the ‘first page’ for this theatre.
Reference https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064603/technical?ref_=ttfc_ql_6
This means that the projected image of the ‘feature’ should never had filled the screen as depicted in the photograph.
Many films exhibited at this drive in had aspect ratios that never filled the screen. “The Love Bug” was one of them. So too was Walt Disney’s “The Barefoot Executive” at 1.75:1, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066811/ The other film “Chariots Of The Gods” never filled the screen with an aspect ratio of 1.66:1.
It was Disney policy to shoot ‘widescreen’ with an aspect ratio of 1.75:1.
Thank you
Anthony of Belfield
Referring to my comments on this page, I refer the reader to Field 2’s screen at https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/39920/photos/429998 where one should see the borfer under the screen. If a picture was projected on the whole screen as above, the image where the border under the screen is shpuld be darker.
Therefore the photo of the movie in this picture has been altered in a laboratory.
Here is a link to this image on this site: https://photos.cinematreasures.org/production/photos/430214/1707513553/large.jpg?1707513553