Revenge of the Drive-in Movie Theater Documentary (2021)
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- čas přidán 2. 11. 2021
- PUBLIC RELEASE: Originally published January 2021.
Revenge of the Drive-in Movie Theater looks at the small but notable resurgence of America's once thriving movie venue during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020.
Their mostly brief popularity was contributed by the nationwide lockdowns and mandates that closed many businesses to the public that year-movie theaters being one of them. Proving to be a safer alternative, drive-ins gained spotlight and caused a number of startups and temporary venues to open across the country.
This documentary covers the history of these theaters, a look into their current operations, and perspective given by the kind people who run them and interact with them within Arkansas.
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One of the greatest and most underrated documentaries I have seen.
This is a great and exceptionally well produced doc. From archival footage, creative editing and fantastic sit down interviews …all great. The background narrative on the history of the drive-in and what caused most of them to wither and die on the vine…just a highly professional and INTERESTING piece of filmmaking!! You did a great job! Thanks!!
It is definitely something that I would like to see exist and thrive, even after Covid ceases to be a problem.
Now the big problem is fentanyl deaths in our country, of which about 75 % comes into the US via our wonderful friends in China. Guess brain dead Joe doesn't care much about it, only his crooked money connection with the Commies.
Hollingshead's company was called Park IN Theatres... not Park It.
Also, in the business, we spell theatre with the RE ending. ER is for legitimate venues that have stage plays.
When the pandemic hit and everything shut down, I remember saying it's too bad they destroyed the Drive-in theaters around the cities. They would have perfectly allowed people to go to movies, stay "safe", and have some outside fun. Not be trapped like they were.
Covid was invented by the governments. I never was really a problem any more so than the flu. Nothing should have been change or shut down, and the masks were only something forced on us by the stupid government.
We are lucky to have one here in atlanta.8 screens the starlight drive in.
There is one drive in theater that is close to me is still open during the warmer months. It was opened in the 1950’s. The first time that I went towards it was in the early 80’s with my parents and sister. It played double features and still today. I haven’t been there since 2005. I remembered another one that was a little bit further. That one just rotted away. There is still a building that was a part of that other drive in theater. It did showed horror movies. I remembered seeing a sign for it in the early 1980’s. I have seen one that was near my home in Illinois. I never went towards it and there was another one,too. I haven’t gone towards it,too. Those 2 are closed. One was near a mall that I used to go to. The other one was in a town that my parents taught in high school in that town was close a few years ago.
woooow!!!! so proud of you- james junction !!!! . I grew up at a drive in ( saw all the disneys there my mother didn't like to go tot he theatre). From there I went on to work at a theatre, manager, promotions, etc, and then to a movie company. Something I always wanted to have, But whoever made this documentary thank you-enlightening and so good to keep memories and nostalgia alive. When I worked at a movie company I talked to a drive in owner who had people who drive 2 and a half hours every year just so that their kids could experience a drive ( it was in CT and is still open today!)
Decent documentary, but bittersweet. The drive-in theater in my area announced this week that they're ceasing operations and have sold to a housing developer. Side note, the audio was a little rough at times, other than that it was good quality.
Movie theaters are full of rude people who talk on their phones, make noise, bring crying babies, etc. And with CV19 who wants to be jammed in with other people?
Drive - In theaters you are in your own car, you can do what you want, and bring your own food/drink.
Drive-Ins make a lot of sense these days.
Respect brother, what an amazing documentary that kept me hooked all the way through!💯
After the almost complete lock down our drive-in reopened by skipping a parking spot between cars & screening double features of older movies. It was wonderful actually getting to be out again.
The Raiders of the Lost Ark/The Last Crusade was especially entertaining. I needed an evening of well made movies so badly.
Really well done documentary. Thanks for sharing 😊
Man I would love to open a drive in theater in my area!
Outstanding video! Good job!
Great job on this video, and have to get to the one in arkanas .. road trip to my new home and the drive inns.
This is wonderful, thank you!
Amazing documentary 👌🏽
I wish we have a drive in theater in Hawaii ☹️
Excellent documentary. Well done!
Grrrrreat report on one terrrrrific subject. Thanks much, Charlie Boon!
My first attendance of a D-I was in Florida in 1948, if I might recall correctly.
Can't say I remember much about it tho, except I liked it. Much later (six
years) we attended regularly in San Bernardino -- a desert community in
California. All those I recall vividly.
Only in '49 in Oakland CA, was the family frequenting inside theaters,
which were great too but not as exotic and free and fun.
Generally the D-I is a good workable concept, depending always though
on arrays of potentially changing circumstance.
As far as the familial and community aspects go, the walk-ins pose
practically zero challenges.
Even here at Y-T (or rather THERE in Palo Alto) numbers of flick showers
are inserting intros, intermissions and outros, imitative of Drive-Ins! They
work amazingly well so as to produce that 'event' type experience.
Although potentially impacting walk-ins not well, they serve as prefatory
action or conditioning almost, for D-Is existing outside of cities!
Of course it is impossible to say how the Russian/Ukraine mix-up will
impact here. Too many wild cards are in-play.
A drive-in was also a cheap motel for making out as a teen...I missed though nights !! The 35mm film projector era ended in 2018 to make way for digital projection, there is no more 35mm film available today, all film projectors was sold oversea or was sold for scrap... I was a theatre projectionist later became a technician/sound engineer for 48-yrs, I retired in 2018...Thanks for the memories... You did good with a Christie projector or an NEC is good... I hate the Barco & Sony digital Projectors, these are the only 4-digital cinema projectors on the market.. Barco & Christie pioneer the digital cinema projectors.. in the early 2000's.. at that time the cost was $80K~$135K, today digital projectors cost $35K~$50K without the server...
There were a couple of drive ins here that I used to go to and were pretty well attended even into the 1990s.....but they both stopped those operations in that decade and are now gone for some time......a lot of great memories from my late teens and as a young adult!
However, there is still one in a town about 30 minutes north of where I live that I've gone to several times in recent years, and I loved it, of course! I need to go back, when I'm able!
Nothing like a drive-in movie experience!
The Mahoning Drive-in didn't go digital and did what I fantasized about doing, which is run all older movies. They were supposed to reach a certain profit by the end of the first season and they ended up quadrupling expectations.
The sad part of the comeback is drive-ins are showing only children's movies and/or 80s and 90s movies. When I was a kid back in the 70s my sister and brother in law took to the drive-in to see really cool movies like Dirty Mary/Crazy Larry, Billy Jack, The New Centurions, The Lords Of Flatbush (starring Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler).
My local drive-in shows Jaws every Labor Day weekend with.either Back To The Future or Jurassic Park. They showed Jaws first the JP or BTTF second for a few years then they showed Jaws second because 70% of the cars left before JP or BTTF started. When Jaws was shown second all the cars stayed.
I really enjoyed this film 📽🎬
near me we have 2 drive ins. one in tampa and other in lakeland
The drive in will never die 👍
There gaining popularity since the pandemic as in back in style
this lady is coping hard @35:21 people visit drive-ins for the novelty; trying to compare which is more convenient is a losing argument
you should look into The Starlight Drive In in Wichita Kansas....THE Nicest I've Ever seen
Good stuff
enjoyed!
I would think that the transition from our full-sized All American sedans to Hobbit-mobiles in the wake of the oil crisis would probably be a larger factor than that of the amount of cars on the road. Whenever we went to the drive-in, we always tried to borrow the largest car belonging to the family of anyone in the group. It made it far more enjoyable that way.
So great ❤
Can we bring them back pls!!!!
DRIVE-INS ARE AWSOME......SUPPORT THEM!!!!!!
what's left of drive inn theaters are going to be more affected with permanent daylights savings time.
👏👏👏👏
THIS SHIT HARD
99% recovery rate
Bring back drive in theaters! Throw away the smart phones!!
We're bringin' 'em back!