Anniversary of the opening of the first car cinema in New Jersey, America.. Today
After the great crisis that cinema faced in countries with the application of quarantine restrictions in many countries of the world, against the background of precautionary measures to confront the spread of the new Corona virus, which prompted many to think of solutions to get out of the crisis or even to come out with the least losses, the most prominent of these ways Car cinema countries have already begun to implement.
On this day, corresponding to June 06, 1933, the first car cinema of its kind in America was opened in Camden, New Jersey, and the sound was coming from three large speakers next to the screen, and in the forties improvements were made to the theaters, including the use of speakers inside the car. .
The idea of car theaters was invented by Richard Hollingshead in 1933, and he received a patent for his idea in 1933, but the patent was rescinded in 1939. But that did not prevent the spread of car cinemas throughout the United States. In 1963, it reached 3,502 theaters operating in the United States.
After World War II, the popularity of auto cinema increased. By the beginning of the fifties, there were more than 800 theaters in the United States. During the 1970s and 1980s those houses began to fade away, with the advent of television service and tape rentals, and by the 1990s, there were only about 1,000 theaters remaining in the United States. Today the numbers are less than 400 theaters.
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