CAARP
Cinema and Audience Research Project

"Brooklyn was one of Australia's largest drive-ins. An ornamental lake was part of the large grounds at Brooklyn that often required every last car space of its 1,100 capacity. Although some of its business was stolen from Altona when it opened, it always traded more strongly than its nearby Hoyts competition. Today the site is run as a Rubble and Riches market with only the snack bar remaining to tell the tale of the drive-in that once stood on the site. No return car trip from Geelong was complete without the towering screen being viewed for miles down Geelong rd." (Kilderry, 1999)

References
Cinema & Theatre Historical Society 1997, Cinema index : Melbourne cinemas, suburban cinemas, Victorian drive-ins. CATHS, Victoria

Film Weekly, Film Weekly: motion picture directory, Film Weekly, Sydney. 1962/3-1970/1

Film screenings advertised in The Herald until 1981.

Film Weekly (4 November 1954, p. 1) reports the expected opening of a drive-in theatre at Brooklyn, on the corner of Blackshaw and Millers Road.

Kilderry, D 1999, Drive-ins Downunder, viewed 2 October 2008, http://www.drive-insdownunder.com.au/australian/vic_brooklyn.htm