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As Europe emerges from lockdown, drive-in movies spring up

Jun 22, 2020
Social distancing rules revive interest in an old American form of entertainment.
"Grease" is screened at a drive-in movie in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 13.
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The drive-in movie theater isn't dead. Not yet at least.

Sep 2, 2013
There are only about 300 drive-in theaters left in the U.S., and the shift to digital projection may eliminate most of the survivors.