Drive in Movies With an Open Air Cinema Outdoor Movie System
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Drive in Movies With an Open Air Cinema Outdoor Movie System
There are many ways to use your Open Air Cinema outdoor movie system, and one of the most popular ways is to host a drive in movies event. In this post we'll discuss a few steps that will get you on your way to using your OAC outdoor movie system to set up your own Drive in Movies theater.
Drive in Movies Made Easy With OAC
With an Open Air Cinema outdoor movie system, you have almost everything you need to start your drive in movies theater. We recommend to go with one of our Elite systems, as you'll have a large enough inflatable screen (from 20 to 40 feet in width!), and a state of the art audio visual system that will meet the demands of your event. An Open Air Cinema outdoor theater system comes with a very powerful outdoor speaker system, but with a drive in movie, you may not need the full benefits of the speakers that come with this system. However, there are several ways to setup a drive in movies theater. The classic way to produce sound for your drive in movies event is to push the sound recording through a radio frequency, and then to have your guests listen to the movie through the audio in their cars. Many people who produce drive in movies will also supplement their sound with a powerful audio system, and all of our Cinebox systems will have you covered. The one thing you'll need to acquire (and we can provide this for you), is an FM transmitter that is powerful enough to send a signal to all of the vehicles in your audience.
Portable Drive in Movies
One of the main benefits of using an Open Air Cinema outdoor movies system as your drive in movies event is that it is highly portable meaning that you can set it up in virtually any location. As long as there is enough room for your inflatable screen and for your guests in their vehicles to park their cars, you can set up your drive in movies theater. The drive in movies theater of the past required a large permanent structure for the movie screen, and these were expensive to maintain and made the property specific for the function of a drive in movie. But with an Open Air Cinema inflatable movie screen as your drive in movie screen, you can change the location of your drive in movie whenever you'd like, and replacing and maintaining your projection surface is a fraction of the cost of a permanent screen.