Cars & Concepts

The drive-in movie theater debuts in 1933

More than 200 Mini Cooper owners attended a drive-in premiere of "The Italian Job" movie in Hollywood on May 20, 2003, to watch Mini Coopers perform stunts in the movie. (REUTERS)

June 02, 2020 05:45 PM

Richard Hollingshead, owner of a chemical company, opens the world's first drive-in movie theater in Camden, N.J., on June 6, 1933.

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