Stories
Keeping Peak Season Movie Nights Moving SmoothlyA busy drive-in movie night should feel relaxed from the moment cars arrive. At Troyce Gatewood & Partners Movie Nights, that means treating traffic as part of…
How the Moon Shapes the Picture at a Drive-In Movie NightDrive-in theatres have a simple charm: pull in, dial up the radio, and let the silver screen do the rest. Yet anyone who has settled onto the bonnet of a ute…
How a Regular Patron Became Our Guest ProgrammerDrive-in cinemas hold a nostalgic place in the hearts of Australians, where venues like the Coburg Drive-In in Melbourne and the Skyline in Adelaide have been…
Meet the artist whose brushstrokes bring our drive-in to lifeThere's something unmistakably Frederick about the posters that flutter on lampposts and shop windows around the fairgrounds each season. Bold colours,…
How We Recycle the Batteries from Our Portable RadiosAt our drive-in nights at the Frederick Fairgrounds, the movie sound drifts to portable FM radios that guests tune in from blankets, picnic chairs, or the open…
Testing radio transmitter range across the fairgroundsOutdoor cinema only works when every car in the lot hears the soundtrack at the same moment. At our drive-in nights at the Frederick Fairgrounds, that…
Snack beyond the bowl for your drive-in nightFew rituals feel as cinematic as tearing open a bag of popcorn the moment the projector hums to life, yet a drive-in setting invites a wider spread. At venues…
Outdoor cinema nights that weave new family traditions under the starsThere's something quietly powerful about sitting beneath a wide horizon while a story unfolds on a screen, the kind of memory that settles into a household…
Setting up a second screen for special drive-in eventsDrive-ins have a long history across Australia, from the kerbside pop-ups in suburban Melbourne and Adelaide in the 1950s to the surviving sites at Wallacia,…
Gift Cards Turn a Frederick Drive-In Into an Easy Night OutPicture this: a friend mentions they've never been to a drive-in, and you want to give them something more memorable than another streaming subscription. A…