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Drive-in Movie Theaters Before the Age of the Small Screen
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Drive-in Movie Theaters Before the Age of the Small Screen
Drive-in movie theaters are considered an American invention. Drive-ins became very popular in the United States after World World II. They combined two popular loves in America: cars and movies. However, why did most of the drive-ins later close? That was a question people often wondered about and tried to look for the answer.
The first drive-in movie theater opened in the United States in 1933. Popular Science magazine described a theater in Camden, New Jersey, as the first of its kind in the world: an open-air movie theater just for motorists. People could watch a film on the big screen while sitting in their car, eating, talking and relaxing.
Many drive-in theaters opened in the 1950s, as the American economy expanded after the war and more people bought cars.
In the 1960s — when I was a boy — there were between 4, 000 and 6,000 drive-in theaters in the United States. I lived in the northeastern state of Maine. Not a lot of people lived there. Yet my parents could take me and my three brothers and two sisters to any of four drive-ins located within an hour’s drive of our home. But almost as soon as drive-ins were everywhere, their popularity began to fade. Today, fewer than 400 are still operating in the United States.
April Wright is producing a documentary about drive-in theaters and the special place they held in American culture. The film is called "Going Attractions: The Rise and Fall of the Drive-in as an American Icon. " She plans to release it early next year on the eightieth anniversary of the opening of the first drive-in theater.
April Wright visited more than 400 current and former drive-in sites across the country during her research for her film. Drive-ins, she tells me, were " the perfect blend of entertainment and car culture. " They represented the hopefulness that followed the war, when the soldiers came home and millions of babies were born.
"So at the time they flourished, it was after the baby boom, and so there was the convergence of a strong economy and lots of kids and car culture — people being able to afford cars. There wasn’t really television at that point in all the homes. And so it was just sort of this thing that families did where they saw their neighbors, where they took their kids. And it was this whole evening out that was very social, very wholesome for the communities, and that’s when they started. "
So why did drive-ins lose their appeal? April Wright looked for the reasons.
"The more I looked into it, I realized it wasn’t a single factor, not only that made drive-ins go on the decline but also what made them flourish. There is a common denominator and it’s completely cultural. They rose really quickly — the spike is sort of narrow. And they also declined very quickly — the spike there is also kind of narrow. They rose really quickly in the late ’40s and they declined really quickly in the early ’80s, so they had about a 40-year span of popularity. "
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Drive-in movie theaters, where people could watch a film while sitting in their car, eating, talking and relaxing, are thought as an American invention, which combined cars and films and became popular after WWII. However, they flourished and declined in not so long a time which often puzzled people who tried to find answers.
The first drive-ins were opened in the 1930s, many in the 1950s with the expansion of American economy and till reached to thousands in 1960s. But just as their sudden popularity, so was their quick decline.
A woman who is producing a documentary about the drive-ins visited every current and new drive-ins sites to find their rise and fall for her film. She believed there was the convergence of a strong economy and lots of kids and car culture, and there was no TV at that time, which together contributed to the start of the drive-ins. As for the decline, she thought it shared the common cultural denomination with their flourishing.
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把握此文章的关键是几个时间线索:after World World II,in 1933,in the 1950s,in the 1960s,及与其分别对应的事件:drive-ins became very popular,the first drive-in opened,many drive-in opened,there were between 4,000 and 6,000 drive-ins(flourishing),加上文章最后一句:They rose really quickly in the late ’40s and they declined really quickly in the early ’80s,及两个意思一样的问句:However,why did most of the drive-ins later close?和So why did drive-ins lose their appeal?连起这些按时间发生的事件,大致勾勒出作者的基本思路:汽车旅馆在二战后兴起,50、60年代蓬勃发展,80年代衰落,原因是什么?如能理解,即可表述。
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