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- Drive-in movies, once popular in the 1950s and '60s, are making a comeback due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many are operating at 50% capacity, giving out face masks, and enacting social distancing measures. Traditional indoor theaters are still shuttered during lockdown.
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Jul 6, 2020 · The 1952 Haar's Drive-In Movie Theater in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, is one of the few original theaters that survived past the late 1980s and is the only one in York County. Vickie Hardy took co ...
May 26, 2020 · Drive-in movies, once popular in the 1950s and '60s, are making a comeback due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many are operating at 50% capacity, giving out face masks, and enacting social ...
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That social distancing aspect has certainly helped put drive-ins back on the pop-culture radar as some studios have turned to outdoor theaters as a means of distributing new releases as indoor cinemas shut down. The 2020 rendition of Valley Girl, a new musical adaptation of the 1983 movie, was released in May digitally and to drive-ins. The Wretche...
Throughout the years, drive-ins have undergone many changes. They started out with loudspeakers mounted on top of the screen; then adapted to speaker poles and individual speakers that hung from car windows. Eventually they transitioned to radio frequencies. “To compete with indoor multiplexes, many drive-ins added additional screens starting in th...
There are 305 operating drive-ins and 549 total screens currently in the America, according to the United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association. Countries like Canada and Australia have embraced the concept too, although drive-ins haven’t taken off globally the way they have in the United States. “No country is married to the cars like America,” says...
The first patented U.S. drive-in was created by Richard Hollingsheadas a means of providing his mother—who was too large to sit comfortably in a movie theater—with a different way to watch films. He experimented with hanging a sheet up between trees and putting a projector on the hood of a car in his driveway before opening a drive-in in Camden, Ne...
Jul 27, 2020 · Playlist. Outdoor movies have gained renewed popularity during the pandemic — 160 Walmart parking lots will become temporary drive-in movie theaters Saturday. NPR takes a look at the history of...
Talia LakritzMay 26, 2020, 22:16 IST. A drive-in movie in 1948 (left) and in 2020.Allan Grant/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images, MEHDI FEDOUACH/AFP via Getty Images. Drive-in...
May 1, 2018 · DriveInMovie.com is currently tracking 8-10 new drive-ins which plan to open in 2018 or early 2019. And while that may not sound like a large number, we only know of a couple of closings this year which means 2018 may be the first year in nearly 40 years that we have a net gain of drive-in theaters in the U.S.
May 23, 2020 · (Reuters) - The drive-in movie, dismissed by many as a relic of an earlier time in America, is making a comeback as entertainment seemingly designed for the coronavirus era.
