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English: The first drive-in movie theater built by Camden, NJ industrialist Richard M. Hollingshead. in Pennsauken, near Camden, New Jersey. It had a 40 x 50 ft (12 x 15 meter) screen and could accommodate 400 cars. The admission was $0.25 per car plus $0.25 per person. Hollingsworth patented the concept May 16, 1933, it opened June 6, 1933 and the first film shown was Adolphe Menjou's Wife Beware. Within a few years drive-ins were being built all over the USA.
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Source Retrieved October 24, 2014 from Electronics magazine, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., New York, Vol. 6, No. 8, August 1933, p. 209 on Google Books
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(Reusing this file)		 This 1933 issue of Electronics magazine would have the copyright renewed in 1961. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. [1] Search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1960, 1961, and 1962 show no renewal entries for Electronics. Therefore the magazine's copyright was not renewed and it is in the public domain.

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