I don't get it, heck what's a drive-in ?
in your neighborhood, it's a big field with a white sheet nailed to the side of a barn where they show what i believe you still refer to as "talkies"
for everyone besides DO3 who wasn't born in the 1800's: talkies are "An early term for a film with sound and especially recorded spoken dialogue. It is typically used today to make a distinction between silent and sound films made in the late 1920's and early 1930's when sound films establishing their marketplace dominance."
It's funny cause he's old!!!!