The small coastal1 town of Broome, in northwest Australia, is an outpost in the vast Outback.
There are no traffic jams and hardly any roads. There is only the massive Australian wilderness2, where some houses are 500 miles apart and some driveways are 50 miles long.
There seem to be only two main sources of entertainment out here: the sunset at the beach and Sun Pictures.
Sun Pictures is a very different movie theater. The seats are park benches and deck chairs, but you're also welcome to sit on the grass.
It is the world's oldest outdoor movie garden. Sun Pictures was built in 1916 on the other side of the globe from Hollywood. All the big films were shipped here and the lonely Outback was dazzled.
Broome resident Pearl Hamaguchi has never traveled far from home. But in the Sun Pictures chairs, under the deep blue night sky, she has been almost everywhere.
"And we came back swooning over Gregory Peck," she recalled.
This is one of the few places left in the world where you can see two sets of stars at the same time.
"That was the only input3 we got from the rest of the world: Hollywood," said Hamaguchi, laughing, remembering what Sun Pictures meant during her childhood. "Of course, we all exchanged seats after the lights went off. [We were] smooching and holding hands."
Each night, dozens of people from around the world line up at the old wooden booth, with no computer in sight, and buy their tickets to the latest escape.
Sun Pictures is also a museum, exhibiting projectors4 that date back to the silent films, a portrait gallery of the celebrities5 who never knew about this place - even though they came here all the time.
Every once in a while, I'm told, you might find a non-ticket holder6 in your seat. That's why it's always a good idea to shake out your lawn chair to make sure there are no spiders or scorpions8.
"We've only had a couple of scorpion7 incidents but no one's been stung yet," said Aaron Mestemaker, a tourist visiting from Michigan.
Sun Pictures is a shrine9 to movie history and a reminder10 that air conditioning and carpet are no match for grass and fresh air - even when the lizards11 steal the scene.
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这是世界上历史最悠久的花园式露天电影院。Sun Pictures于1916年建成，从地图上看正好在好莱坞的另一面（好莱坞位于西经118度，布鲁姆位于东经122度，如果将世界地图从国际日期变更线，也就是180度经线对折，好莱坞和布鲁姆所在的经线基本重合）。当年的大片运到布鲁姆，让这个寂寞的小镇第一次感到眼花缭乱。
