At the dive-in: Australia’s summer tradition of swimming pool film screenings

Chlorine cinema … Zootopia screens at the dive-in cinema at Waterworld Aquatic Centre in Ridgehaven, South Australia. Poolside movie dive-ins are a time-honoured tradition in Australia. Photograph: Waterworld/City of Tea Tree Gully

Imagine you’re lying on an inflatable lilo, fingers and toes dangling in warm, rippling water. It’s almost dusk and the early evening calm is shattered by a piercing scream. Suddenly a great white shark appears, mouth agape with enormous, monstrous teeth. Nearby swimmers who were quietly chatting a moment ago are now flailing in terror.

You’re at Aquamoves pool in Shepparton, central Victoria, watching Jaws while paddling in the pool at their dive-in movie night.