Taranaki Drive-In

Opened September 29, 1965. A few days later on October 3, 1965, the first outdoor public screening of a movie - Walt Disney’s So Dear to My Heart, starring Burl Ives. Twenty-six cars arrived. The screenings continued on Sunday nights so as not to be in direct competition with the local movie theatre (the only one around for 500 square miles, according to one supporter) and were an enormously popular night out for many farming families, who rarely got the opportunity to take their children to see movies. Donations were made to the school - usually in the form of money or bags of cement for the pool.

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