ELECTRIC DUSK DRIVE IN & SECRET MOVIE CLUB present PARKING LOT CINEMA!

Part of our FAMILY SUNDAYS screenings. Sunday, August 23, 2020. 8:10pm TOY STORY (1995, dir by John Lasseter, Disney, 81mns, Digital)

IMPORTANT NOTE: Gates will open at 6:45pm. The movie will start at 8:10pm!

PARKING LOT: Sears Parking Lot across the street from 211 West California Avenue, Glendale, California 91203. The actual entrance to the parking lot is on West California Avenue between North Central Avenue and North Orange Street. 

HOW TO: While we all work to be socially responsible during the age of coronavirus, Electric Dusk Drive In & Secret Movie Club are partnering to put on a Parking Lot Cinema series. Each week, we will be screening movies on a great inflatable screen in a great parking lot location in Los Angeles.

Make sure when you purchase your ticket(s), you do the following:

1) PURCHASE AN EARLY BIRD TICKET ($23) which includes a $15 car fee and the first ticket at $8 per person. This gets you into the single FEATURE you select by title.

2) GO TO ADD ONS: Purchase an additional $8 per person ticket for however many other people after the first person will be in the car. We will be doing a count at the gate. 

PLEASE NOTE TICKETS THE DAY OF AND AT THE GATE WILL BE $20 per car + $8 per ticket for a single screening. 

3)PRE-ORDER ANY CONCESSIONS & POSTERS you would like from the additional Add-Ons. You can pick up all concessions and posters at our table on the Sears side in the middle of the Parking Lot.

To attend, you need a car with an FM radio. We will space out cars to make sure folks can always maintain 6 feet of distance. We ask that folks stay in their cars unless they need to use the portable restroom or pick up concessions. Whenever you are out of your car, you are required to wear a mask. 

We will have hand sanitizer, masks, and gloves for sale for folks who need them. WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU BRING ALL THESE THINGS ON YOUR OWN.

For the foreseeable future, we will be screening our movies at the great spacious Sears Parking Lot in Glendale, California. Please read through the Frequently Asked Questions for more thorough instructions after our description.

Our partnership with Electric Dusk Drive In (a wonderful home grown Los Angeles pop-up street cinema organization: https://www.electricduskdrivein.com/) continues with this third weekend of offerings!

We are excited to finally be able to kick off our FAMILY SUNDAYS series where we will screen a family classic for everyone.

And what better way to start then with the movie that launched an entire new studio, genre, string of classic, Pixar’s and Disney’s TOY STORY 1.

Although now, 25 years later, everyone looks back at TOY STORY 1 as a kind of inevitable classic, it’s important to remember that computer animated movies were very much in their infancy. Disney was still producing hand drawn classics like BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and THE LION KING around the same time. And a movie like TOY STORY was introducing a whole new look, approach to animation.

Pixar though clearly understood, from their very first movie, that a movie is won or lost in the story. And here we get one of the most beloved scripts and series of all Pixar’s many classic offerings. 

Here, we see childhood from the point of view of young boy Andy Davis’s toys. Headed by Sheriff Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), they all feel nervous at both an approaching move to a new house and the arrival of a new toy for Andy’s birthday. This toy turns out to be action figure astronaut superhero Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen) who is designed to take charge and lead.

This causes significant anxiety, paranoia, and mixed emotions in Woody as he realizes he may be replaced by Buzz as Andy’s favorite toy.

But soon the friction leads to the realization that the Toys must all work together when mishaps cause separation during the move.

TOY STORY would go on to produce three sequels (the most recent just released last year) in which Andy, the Toys, and the Audience would all grow up together and deal with even more intense and ambitious themes.

Here, at the start, we get a beautiful portrait of that moment in childhood when your imagination and connection with your toys are a key part of your understanding of the world and enjoyment of life.

Best always,

Craig Hammill

35mm Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer

“HOW TO” AND FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR OUR PARKING LOT CINEMA SERIES

HOW TO: 

For now, our Parking Lot Cinema events will be held at the Sears Parking Lot across the street from 211 West California Avenue, Glendale, California 91203. The actual entrance to the parking lot is on West California Avenue between North Central Avenue and North Orange Street. 

You will need a car with FM radio to attend. Gate will open at 6:45pm so folks have plenty of time to find the lot, get a good space. We will begin our pre-show/introduction around 8pm and the movie will start promptly at 8:10pm.

We will be pre-selling concessions and posters here on Eventbrite to start so everything is as easy as possible. We will hand you your poster and all your concessions AT THE GATE when you enter. 

PURCHASE A SINGLE FEATURE EARLY BIRD TICKET ($23) which includes a $15 car fee and the first ticket at $8 per person. This gets you into the single FEATURE you select by title.

PLEASE NOTE TICKETS THE DAY OF AND AT THE GATE WILL BE $20 per car + $8 per ticket for a single screening. 

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE GONE TO THE "ADD ONS" section in EVENTBRITE to purchase your ADDITIONAL PERSON(S) IN CAR tickets. We will be doing a count when we check you in at the gate.

We do offer a VIP package for $70.00 which gets your car a first row space. You can have up to 4 people total in the car at no additional charge. And you get a CONCESSIONS package of 4 sodas/waters/iced teas, 2 popcorns packets, & 2 regular sized candies. If you PURCHASE the VIP TICKET there is no need to purchase any additional per person add-ons. 

We can offer refunds for requests made MORE than 24 hours before showtime through Eventbrite. After that, no refunds. Sorry. 

As we fine tune these screenings, we will be bringing food trucks, speakers, more variety. But for this first weekend, we JUST want to focus on quality and having a great time. 

We highly recommend that you bring a sweater, jacket, or a few layers of clothes just in case it gets a little chilly and you don’t want to run your car. 

We will also have portable restrooms which are cleaned daily AND in between movies. 

TICKETS & REFUNDS: Because of the special nature of these screenings, we can not offer discounted series passes. We can offer refunds for requests made through Evenbrite more than 24 HOURS before screening time.

After that, no refunds. Sorry. But we can offer you complimentary tickets to a future Secret Movie Club screening as long as it hasn’t sold out and isn’t a special screening with a different pricing structure.

WHERE DO I PICK UP MY PRE-ORDERED CONCESSIONS AND/OR POSTERS?

We have a concessions/pick up table on the Sears side of the Parking Lot right in the middle. All our concessions are factory sealed. We simply hand you your order. If you pre-order posters, we will also have them at this table for pick up. Concessions WILL be available for purchase at the event itself as well if you want to make a game time decision. 

WHAT IF I HAD TICKET(S) TO A SECRET MOVIE CLUB SCREENING THAT GOT POSTPONED DUE TO COVID AND WANT TO USE IT HERE? We will be reserving 10 spaces per screening for folks who want to transfer their tickets to one of our Parking Lot Cinema events. We will still need to charge you for the car ($25) but we won’t charge for the tickets. 

Please email us at: community@secretmovieclub.com as soon as you can if you want to attend so we can reserve you one of these spaces. Once these 10 spaces fill up, you will have to either pay full price or request a different event. 

WHAT IF I HAVE A SECRET MOVIE CLUB LIFETIME, SPRING OR SUMMER 2020 SEASON, OR SERIES PASS? Lifetime Pass holders do get automatic admission to all our events so that includes our Parking Lot Cinema events. Please just email us at community@secretmovieclub.com to let us know you will be attending.

For Spring and Summer 2020 Season and Series Pass holders who had their events delayed due to our COVID postponements, we can’t transfer those passes to the Parking Lot Cinema series because of the special nature and different pricing structure of this series.

HOWEVER, if you write us at community@secretmovieclub.com, we will do our best to get you entrance into at least a few of these screenings as a thank you for your patience. We will have to charge the $25 car fee but we will waive the per person ticket fee. And your Season or Series pass will STILL BE GOOD once we return to theatrical screenings.

WHAT PRECAUTIONS AND MEASURES ARE YOU TAKING SO THESE EVENTS ARE SAFE DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC?

All our staff will have gloves, masks, and work to maintain 6 feet of distance.

We are working to make these events as touch-less as possible. Therefore we ask that you purchase your tickets and all concessions, movie posters, etc THROUGH Eventbrite prior to the event. 

We will work to have masks, gloves, hand sanitizer for sale at our events. 

BUT WE DO HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO BRING ALL THESE THINGS YOURSELVES.

We will have portable restrooms which are constantly cleaned between EACH USE.

HOW WILL THESE MOVIES BE SCREENED: For the time being all movies will be screened digitally. While our first love is 35mm, to make these events happen in parking lots, we do need to screen movies digitally. However, we have taken every step to make sure the image and sound are of the highest quality so you have a great cinematic experience. We will also be doing LIVE IN PERSON INTRODUCTIONS as we did for our theatrical screenings.

WILL THERE BE SINGLE FEATURES AND/OR FAMILY FEATURES? Yes! We will occasionally be screening single features of longer length and single family features. Pleasencheck our website (secretmovieclub.com), our Social Media (@secretmovieclub35mm @secretmovieclub), and our Eventbrite page: http://secretmovieclub.eventbrite.com each Monday at 1pm for newly announced events.

HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:

You can always email us at community@secretmovieclub.com with any other questions, thoughts, recommendations.