On August 3rd, the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In screened the Guerilla Drive-In Subversive Shorts Festival on Pacific Avenue and Cooper Street in downtown Santa Cruz. The screen was a wall next to the largest downtown theater where many lined up to see the Simpsons, Bourne Ultimatum, and Ratatouille. People brought chairs and food and sat on two sides of the intersection at Cooper Street.

Sound was arranged by broadcasting on 97.5FM via a microradio transmitter set up across the street, and people brought radios to listen. This solved the problem of not being able to broadcast sound with a loud speaker. When the movie theater finally turned off its marquee, the light quality of the projection was actually quite good, and a diverse range of films was shown, including some local projects. Most of the passerbys received it all well and a number joined watching for a while.

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