It really sucked to not use the movie screen for the hottest part of the summer, but we had no choice but to stay inside with the air conditioning
Last winter, thanks in part to going stir crazy from the pandemic, my wife and I assembled a cool outdoor movie theater in our backyard. We already had a nice firepit and a sitting area, so we added a 10 by 15 foot screen along the security fence, and brought out a digital projector to show movies in the great outdoors. It was a huge hit, and we were out there several nights a week through the winter, watching fave films in front of a roaring fire. When the weather changed, so did movie nights, because although there was a source of heating, that firepit was useless against hot weather. If we wanted to keep watching movies under the stars ,we would need some kind of cooling system to keep us comfortable. It turns out there is no cheap and easy cooling equivalent to the fire pit, all the possible solutions are high tech and very expensive. There are portable air conditioners, and some very good ones, but sitting one outside is next to useless. You would basically have to sit right on top of the air vents just to feel the cooling, because it would dissipate in the open air so quickly. It really sucked to not use the movie screen for the hottest part of the summer, but we had no choice but to stay inside with the air conditioning. It is so hard to enjoy a movie while you are sweating in 95 degree weather and miserable humidity, so we’ll just have to wait until the weather starts cooling off naturally.