汽車戲院

汽車戲院（）是戶外電影院的形式之一，本質上是一種停車場，客人開自己的車入場坐在車上看大螢幕上的電影，在北美和東歐較多。1932年由美國人理查德·霍林斯赫德（Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr）利用廢棄化學工廠發明此種放映法，早期聲音部分採用大喇叭對停車場播放，但可能會因車體阻隔影響聲音效果，後來出現區域廣播蓋台的做法，客人可以用車上收音機收聽電影聲音。

2020年COVID-19疫情期間，部份國家電影院為避免群聚感染而暫停營業，有些地方因而開設汽車戲院使觀眾可看電影，又能避免密閉空間與近距離接觸造成疫情傳播。

參考

伸延閱讀
 "Drive-in" (2001). The Film Encyclopedia, 4th ed., Ephraim Katz (ed). HarperCollins, New York.
 Don Sanders, Susan Sanders, (October 2003) The American Drive-In Movie Theater. Motorbooks International. ISBN 0-7603-1707-0
 Elizabeth McKeon, Linda Everett, Liz McKeon (December 1998). Cinema Under the Stars: America's Love Affair With the Drive-In Movie Theater. Cumberland House. ISBN 1-58182-002-X.
 Sanders, Don and Susan. Drive-in Movie Memories. Middleton: Carriage House, 2000. 
 Sanders, Don and Susan.  The American Drive-in Movie Theatre. Osceola: Motorbooks International and Wholesalers, 1997. 
 Segrave, Kerry. Drive-in Theaters: a History from Their Inception in 1933. Jefferson: McFarland and Company, Inc., 1992. 
 "The Drive-in Theater History Page" . Drive in Theater. 20 April 2007.

外部連結

 BBC: "Drive-in theaters refuse to fade away" 
 Time Magazine: "Movies that star the stars" 
 San Francisco Chronicle: "Reviving drive-in culture" 
 "For Drive-In Theaters, an Unexpected Revival" , Nancy Mullane, All Things Considered, April 21, 2008.
 A freely downloadable collection of drive-in intermission advertisements
 "Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters," Robin Conner and Paul Johnson, Southern Spaces, October 10, 2008
 United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association

相關條目
電影院
家庭劇院

電影院
停車場
1932年面世
美國發明