David Kilderry News Today

Onlookers captured footage of the moment an excavator tore down the large cinema screen at the Lunar Drive-in, located in Melbournes southeast, this week.

Soaring land tax and rate bills equating to more than $1000 a day have forced one of Australia's biggest and oldest drive-in cinemas to close its doors permanently.

Melbournes longest-running adult cinema, which hosts a very popular special pensioner rate, has finally succumbed to the movement of porn going online and will cease operation in late June