stackyFACTSThe peak of outdoor cinema started as a messy experiment in a driveway.
The peak of outdoor cinema started as a messy experiment in a driveway. In 1933, Richard Hollingshead nailed a screen to some trees in his backyard, put a 1928 projector on the hood of his car, and placed a radio behind the screen for sound. He then scaled the idea up, opening the world's first patented drive-in theater in Camden, New Jersey, explicitly marketing it to people whose children were too loud for normal cinemas.
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