A History of Brooksville's Theatres 41 Drive-In 1954 The history of movie theaters in Brooksville began in 1909. Florida actually had movie studios back then with one of the biggest, the Lubin Company, in Jacksonville from 1910 - 1913. A young Oliver Hardy (later of Laurel & Hardy fame) worked there in 1912. The northeast's early movie moguls preferred Florida because of the weather, but soon soured on that because of the intense heat, rain, bugs and humidity and soon moved