The seventh art began with the creation of the cinematograph by the Lumière Brothers in 1895. The first short films were shown in large theaters, and the first travelling cinema was shown in a fairground attraction in 1907. Therefore, films began to be shown in different spaces, outside the traditional movie theater.
Twenty years later, in 1933, the world's first drive-in theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. It was the brainchild of Richard Hollingshead Jr. who experimented with different projection and sound techniques in his driveway until he figured out the logistics and made it possible for all the cars to properly watch a movie.
One of the main attractions of the drive-in theater, at the time, was to provide affordable family entertainment, i.e., a place where parents could bring their children without disturbing other customers or the rest of the audience.
It was a great success, popular from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, that quickly spread throughout the United States. Later, its magic reached Europe, where the continent's first drive-in theater opened in Frankfurt and is still in operation today.
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