Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie Page #4
with the carbon arc. The carbons actually created
a flame. It was very hot, very dangerous. The flame reflected the light
through a reflector and then out through the lens. -You just have to have
two projectors. You'd have your first reel
on one projector and your second reel
on the next projector. -Film reels were 20 minutes, and that is because of
the length of the carbon. You would have five to six reels
of film to make up one feature. At the end of every reel,
in the upper right-hand corner, there's what they call
changeover cues, and they
basically go unnoticeable, unless to the trained eye. On the second cue, you would actually do
the changeover with a foot pedal and an electric shutter
that simultaneously opened the shutter on the machine
you were going to start and close
the one that was running. -And that movie
would come back on. People wouldn't even know
it happened. -Of course, everyone remembers
the old speaker boxes that used to hang
on the car windows. -That's one thing that is, you know,
a great icon of the drive-in, is the drive-in theater speaker
that you hang on your window, and you don't drive away
while you're still connected. -In the ground,
they were laying this wire that coming up the poles
that carried the speakers. So you had all of that
as a component of construction. -And they put little down lights
so that you could see the poles. -The sound was confined
through the theater area. It just revolutionized sound
back then. A lot of drive-ins didn't pay
royalty fees. The ensuing court battle
proved futile. They started springing up
around the country. - There's a great drive-in
'bout a mile out of town Gonna be there with my baby
when the sun goes down One for the money,
two for the show We're hoppin' in my hot rod
to go, go, go, go Drivin' at the drive-in The hippies keep a-ridin' Feelin' good and groovin',
groovy like a movie Drivin'
at the drive-in tonight -Late 1940s, early 1950s,
the big thing of the time was to go into
the drive-in movie business. -Can't forget the marquee. That's definitely a lot
of drive-ins' claim to fame. [ Oldies music plays ] -It was hugely popular
in the 1950s. Marquees were made
mostly of neon. [ Music continues ] As a second marquee,
the back of the screen tower sometimes would have
moving artwork in neon. Something that would attract
your attention. - I feel all right Gonna go some more
next Saturday night Drivin' at the drive-in -Another aspect to that
is the murals. A lot of them had murals
on the back, a lot of neon. -As you're driving by,
all of a sudden, boom. "Ooh, look at that colorful
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