Filomena invited us to her birthday 'do'. A screening of the Marx Brother's film, A Night at the Opera, at a backyard cinema in Dernancourt. As you can see from the picture below, not any sort of backyard cinema, actually a recreation of the Regent style of cinema that used to be common across Australia. It's fitted out with 'bits' from the old theatres and even has a marble staircase in its lobby. It seats about 20 people.
Fil arrived in a 1920s something Daimler and, as you can see we all dressed in period 'drag'. We had drinks in the host's house before the first half which comprised a 1970s newsreel, a Tom and Jerry cartoon, some surprising adverts, a Warner Brothers cartoon (the one where the dog is left to hold up the Leaning Tower of Pisa at the end) and a tribute to the Busby Berkley musicals.
At intermission (why can't we have intermission back, it made movies an event!) we went back into the host's house and had supper and then we processed back into the cinema for the screening of the A Night at the Opera. A fun film and a great night out.
Of course we had to take pictures of our costumes before we went out. Low light and not wanting to use flash give the pictures a grainy aged quality.
Well, did you Evah!
My Blue Heaven
I Get a Kick out of You
Putting on the Ritz
In the cinema
