Lucas Wong

As diners and baseball cards, few things scream Americana More Than a drive-in movie theaters. But in the UK, films from the passenger seat of The Car never really out of First Gear . Could the easing of closure restrictions mean outdoor Cinema finally gets its day on This Side of The Pond ?

Eight weeks, Drive In movies that don't exist. It was the brainchild of married couple, Ian and Roseanne Marriott, and so confident that it would take were you to have invested £25,000 in your plan.

"I've been furloughed from work that I normally do, and we thought, what else could I do to support The Family ?", Ian, who has worked says in the broadcast and entertainment industry.

"We thought it fits with my skills and my background, drive-in cinemas. So we asked and it went from an idea becomes real very quickly. "

to open The pair of Silverstone in Northamptonshire, were inspired to see a drive-in theater according to how popular they are in South Korea , rather than in the United States.

they hope to open their own version of a football field in Mickleover, Derbyshire, England from July to September. The program ranges from drive-in classic, fat-right up to modern blockbusters such as The Joker, and Rocketman.

It Comes after the Prime Minister , Boris Johnson announced that the drive was able to open in cinemas from Monday .

"It was just a bit entrepreneurial, I don't know, whether it's a long-term venture," says Ian, 42.

"I think it's definitely a zeitgeist, of the moment, and [that] goes forward, it will be an opportunity to do more, such as open-air Cinema . "

While not a completely new concept in the UK, It is not the Land of the changing weather conditions, which were stopped on the agenda, But the lack of a reasonable profit margin, says Danny Banthorpe, Director of the Norwich-based pop-up images.

"We are already in the past five years," he says. "We have a drive-in in our first year and we have probably done about half a dozen since.

"We have done Halloween and Christmas drive-ins, and we get visitors in the autumn and winter. So weather is not a Problem, Because you in the comfort of your own car.

"But in a nut shell, it is not viable, that is why there are not many of them. "

He Said licensing of films was the largest expense at 40% of the revenues. Then the cost of the screen, if you want to in front of comes to cars, it must be big, and big means expensive.

And with the space you would use for 100 cars, and you could the Cinema 500 people in front of a movie screen in a brick-and-mortal.

"Just the simple math," said the 46-year-old. "Five hundred times of 15 € Per movie, in contrast to 100 times £20. Your sales heights with the sit-down versions. "

But The Company questions whether this could be the year, in the drive-in-shows are more viable, and it is planned to be a series of shows.

"Like I said, they were not viable - But we absolutely adore it. "

The Rise and fall of the drive-in

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Dr Karina Aveyard, associate professor and postgraduate research director at the University of East Anglia , The Rise and fall of drive-in cinemas in the United States and Australia .

After visited drive-ins from a young age in Wagga Wagga , Australia , Dr. Aveyard, said The Sheer amount of available land in the United States and Australia - combined with a largely car-based culture, and increased suburban living and was a major reason drive-ins, and took it.

"The United States and Australia are the only Two Countries in the active drive-in history," She Said . "Drive-in" focuses on people with a car.

"And the United States and Australia are car-based societies, where it is quite normal for a 17-or 18-year-old to have only a car But a large car. Certainly in Australia , it was quite common to go to a drive-in with four people in the trunk. "

You might think, given The Number of US air bases dotted around England, the drive-in Cinema could have found a home in this mini-bastions of American Life .

Not so, says Bruce McPherson Lucas , who served at the Raf Mildenhall Base Commander , the driver during the 1960S .

"We have a Cinema and that kind of stuff, But no drive had-in-Cinema ," said Lucas , who now lives in Norfolk. "I didn't even go, if I lived in Cleveland, Ohio - Because I don't have a car. "

Instead, Lucas , whose 98-year-old mother, Elizabeth, has spent just recovered from coronavirus in Ohio , the largest part of his free Time Off base, exploring English pubs and performing with the musicians.

he Will eventually go to a drive-in movie now, at the Age Of 77?

"I don't think so, I like The Old movies. I Am Looking Forward to the zoo, though. "

George Wood , the founder of the Luna Cinema started, the outdoor Cinema in the year 2007, said: "It will sprout in every corner of the UK this summer.

"This is classic Americana meets the 21St Century requirements in terms of social distancing," He Said . "It is the form of Cinema , which we think is the way Back To the big screen in all forms of entertainment.

"In This Country , the drive-in is a Novelty still, Most People have never been to a drive-in Cinema . "

He Said technology, such as the ordering of food via an app and have it delivered to the hood of your car, it will remain The Experience , distanced social.

"It's something really weird about the fact that this form of Cinema , which is actually suitable, the current situation we live in, where people feel safe in a cocoon away from the other spectators sat in her car. "

Source of news: bbc.com