It hasn’t happened at Dubbo for decades, but a trip to the drive-in can become “a rite of passage”, a film and media specialist contests.
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Associate Professor Jane Mills said drive-ins and other cinemas added so much to the experience of seeing a movie.
In 2010 the Daily Liberal had reported the academic and film authority’s insights about the place of drive-ins.
An associate professor with the University of New South Wales, she responded with enthusiasm this month on hearing Dubbo’s drive-in cinema would return for one weekend in April.
"I love the way cinemas are responding to a declining market in ticket sales with new and revived old ways of seeing movies,” Associate Professor Mills said.
“Seeing a movie in a cinema – especially a drive-in makes a film so much more than a strip of celluloid with actors and props moving around the frame.
“It can become a rite of passage."
Six years ago the Daily Liberal reported the academic had said she’d love to see a drive-in theatre under the stars make a return to Dubbo.
“Wouldn’t that be great? Young people would have a new experience ... (and) older people could enjoy it all over again,” Associate Professor Mills said then.
The associate professor had also pointed out the popularity of all things “retro” among Generation Y.
“In fact, the increasing interest in retro is like a cultural revival,” she said then.
Her comments from 2010 were on the mark for the drive-in project at Dubbo.
The proposed return of the old icon is being driven by the Dubbo Youth Council in partnership with Dubbo Regional Council.
It was the brainchild of youth council member and Dubbo teen Phoenix Aubusson-Foley.
“Phoenix brought the idea up at a youth council meeting which was endorsed by the youth council, and since then we have been working to make the dream a reality,” council youth development officer Jason Yelverton said.
The announcement of the plans prompted a flood of interest and memories shared on the Daily Liberal Facebook page.
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I have been a journalist for more than a decade and in that time I have been keeping Daily Liberal readers up to date about issues affecting them and what's happening in their community. Throughout my career I have covered a range of rounds and most recently I have been focusing on the business round.
