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(Tuesday, June 6, 1933, the first film began at 8:30 p.m. EDT) — The first drive-in movie theater, created by Richard Hollingshead, opened tonight outside of Camden, New Jersey, on Crescent Boulevard in Pennsauken Township.

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The Automobile Movie Theatre offered 400 slots and a 40 by 50 ft screen.

He advertised his drive-in theater with the slogan, “The whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the children are.”

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The first film shown was the Adolphe Menjou film Wives Beware.

Failing to make a profit, Hollingshead sold the theater after three years to a Union, New Jersey, theater owner who moved the infrastructure to that city, but the concept caught on nationwide.