"Some younger people that are taking over locations, but sometimes it is an employee who has worked at the place for a long time that eventually took it over," Wright explained. While some drive-ins have been passed down from generation to generation, new blood is coming in and starting from scratch, despite the pressures. "It does take a certain type of person to run a drive-in because it's not an easy business, so you have to have passion for it," Wright added. I guess that causes us to be looked at as if we're classic, but it's still an awesome way to watch a movie, and that hasn't changed." "It does have a lot to do with the fact that only ten percent or less of us are left.
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"McDonald's existed in the 50s, indoor movie theaters existed in the 50s, so why is it that we're the ones representing a bygone era?" he mused.
While the attention was appreciated and brought increased trade, Vincent admitted there was an element of frustration with the perception but has a theory. Then we returned to being persona non grata in the media until COVID hit." It was kind of the doomsday scenario where drive-ins would be done in by this conversion to digital. "We had been in the spotlight with the conversion to digital because that was quite an expensive changeover about ten years earlier. "I've been in the business for 35 years now, and there are a lot of reasons why drive-ins went by the wayside, but a big one had to do with the product and getting movies," added John Vincent, the President of the UDITOA and owner-operator of Wellfleet Drive-In and Cinemas in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
Originally only planning three or four drive-ins, the filmmaker increased the number to eleven because she wanted to get a broader sense of what was going on in rural locations as well as those near cities. However, it wasn't until the summer of 2021 that Wright went out into the field.
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