When I was a kid, my parents sometimes took me and my sister to the drive-in movies. It was sooooo fun!
My father drove us to the drive-in theater, usually just as it was getting dark. We would pay at the ticket gate, and drive in to the huge parking lot. My father would drive around until he found a good spot, and then he would carefully postition the car near a speaker.
We lifted the speaker off its holder, and hung it inside the car window. It had volume controls, so you could turn the volume up or down.
We often went to double features (two movies in a row 連続). The theater would usually play a children's movie first, and a regular movie next for the parents.
I remember one night we watched a double feature. The children's movie was "Lady and the Tramp". My sister and I, sitting in the back seat of the car, enjoyed it so much.
When the first movie finished, there was an intermission (休憩時間). During this time, they played a funny "intermission film" on the movie screen, with "intermission music". At the back of the big parking lot, there was a small playground with swings (ブランコ) and a slide (滑り台). My sister and I played there, keeping our eyes on the movie screen so that we'd have time to run back to our car before the intermission ended.
The next movie was "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", with Clint Eastwood. My parents didn't want us to watch this movie. My mother was afraid it was too violent, and we would have bad dreams. So my father told us to lay down in the backseat of the car and close our eyes and go to sleep.
We did as my father said, and I remember positioning myself so that I could see the movie screen through the small space between the driver's seat and passenger seat. I thought that I was being very smart, and watching a grown up movie. But I remember one scene that was quite gruesome (惨たらしい) for a little girl, and I regretted (後悔) watching it. My parents were right. This movie was not for children. Afterwards I fell asleep, and slept through the rest of the movie.
By the way, do you like the theme song to "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"? My father had the record album of this movie's soundtrack. He played the album sometimes on the stereo, and I thought it was so dramatic and impressive.
I found this amazing performance of it on Youtube.
I have never actually watched the whole movie. Have you?
What was your experience of going to the movies when you were a child