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(birds chirping)
(muted music playing)

(calm electronic music)

- [Announcer] Good evening
folks and a hearty welcome

to our drive-in theater.

(calm electronic music)

- [News Reporter] Earlier
this spring, volunteers

in Carbon County gave up
their weekends to save

a connection with their
past, they helped fix up

the Mahoning drive-in
near Lehighton

and they hope their
hard work would help

keep it open for
summers to come.

But the theater
just off Route 443

also needs $60,000 for
a digital projector.

Hollywood will soon
stop printing films

that run on older
projectors like this one

at the Mahoning drive-in.

- [Man] So many drive-ins are
abandoned, torn down, gone.

- [News Reporter] A
drive-in movie theater

is back in Carbon County
despite talk it would have

to fold after being unable to
purchase a digital projector.

- [News Reporter] The
manager here says if they are

still unable to purchase
a digital projector

for next season one option
would be to run this

as a classic drive-in
playing older movies

still available on 35mm film.

- [Man] We really hit it off
with our love of our film.

- [Man] And then you get
to hold a piece of film

in your hand, the actual,
physical film and say

all these images that
I've been watching

over all these years on
this little plastic strip.

- [Man] It's not pristine,
it's not spotless.

That's what I love about
film more than anything else

it's messed up in
some weird little way

that makes it unique.
- That print carries with it

the entire history of
the life of that print.

This is the same piece of
film that passed through

a projector when
this film was new.

- [Man] 24 frames per
second was initially chosen

because it was the speed
at which you would trick

the brain into thinking it
was looking at something

real and moving and not
just pictures in a row

and Quentin Tarantino
points to that when he talks

about what he thinks is the
literal magic of movies.

- [Man] We're up on
this pedestal that
35mm is our format,

the only format.
- We keep this retro mentality

film first and 35
forever, that's it.

- [Announcer] And
now, on with the show.

- Oh yes, home sweet home.

We do have R, PG13 where
we run all ratings.

I've never run an X, I
don't think I would do that.

I wouldn't want people
driving down the highway

looking at the no, no,
I would never do that.

I can't do that.

I don't know if that's
something that we can.

This was pretty much what
it was like when it closed

in October, I mean
they've got a couple,

I mean they were
packing up some posters

and some video tapes,
but with the decorations

I mean this is the
way it was in October.

(sighs) That's what
I came to do today,

is finish up setting
up all the sound,

finish getting the
projectors oiled and cleaned

and I'm hoping to run one
of the intermission reels

tonight just to test things.

Most drive-ins in general
have been renovated many times

and this one has not, this
one is almost original,

and that's the way
I wanted to keep it.

That's why I fell
in love with it

when I thought oh my goodness.

This was meant to be a
single screen drive-in,

everyone facing the same
direction at the same time,

watching the same
movie at the same time.

That's how drive-ins were built.

Nobody used to build
drive-ins in the 40s

with the idea of having
two, three screens.

This is the way drive-ins
were meant to be.

When you walk into a drive-in
that does what I'm doing,

you are stepping back in time.

If you look around
you you see a field

that hasn't changed in 67 years.

You see a building, a screen,
the interior of the building

that hasn't changed
in 67 years, you think

my gosh this is old and
it's still operating.

I always liked movies, ever
since I was a little kid.

I got this projector when
I was in junior high.

I mean it's an old 16mm,
it's from the 1950s.

I have my own 16mm collection,
features, shorts, cartoons.

And I've been a projectionist,
a professional projectionist

since 1978, the air
force base theater needed

a projectionist and I thought
well that would be neat,

so that's where I learned
to work professional 35mm

was in the air force, at
the air force base theater.

Yeah, the projectors I
have there are Simplex E7s,

they're the original
projectors from 1948 when the

theater was built, they've
been running 67 years.

And these are considered
heavy machinery, you used

to have to have a
license to run these,

you couldn't just, you had to
have a license to run these

because they can kill you
if you're not careful.

Guys back in the 70s
who had long hair

like Patrick for example--
- Ha ha, get his comment.

- They with projectors,
they'd get it caught

while it's running, it
ripped the hair right out

of their heads.
- Oh!

- Oh yeah, it ripped the hair
right out of their heads.

- Dang it, I'm bad.
- Now everything is digital

and you press a button,
you're not working with it.

It's all exactly the same
thing, ones and zeroes

from a computer you know.

Your loops have to
be the right size,

because if they're not
then the sound is not

synchronized with people's lips.

You don't even have to go
into a projection booth

anymore, you can set a timer
on these digital projectors

and at the same time everyday
they'll start the movie.

You don't even have to
walk into the booth.

What's the point?

What's there to do?

That's why there are no
more projectionists anymore

because it's not a profession,
there's nothing to do.

Well there isn't.

Look at computers, look at
your laptops or your desktops.

After five years, they're
obsolete they're junk.

Systems are faster,
electronics are better,

they're smaller, so
the digital projectors

that first came out
say eight years ago

or even 10 years
ago, now it's almost

that nobody wants them.

They want everybody, the
industry wants everybody

to be digital, so there's only
two ways you can go with it

and that was the
juncture that I was at.

Turns out we can we get
one more summer, hopefully

this summer will be good
enough that next season

we can put in a
digital projector.

If you are fortunate enough
to have one of the few

remaining drive-in theaters
there's only two directions

you can go, you're either
going to stay first run

and be digital, the
only other option

is to play old movies, because
they're not making them

on 35mm anymore, so now I'm
not gonna be able to afford

to get a digital projector,
I better figure out

what to do with a 35mm
projector that I already have.

I was able to keep it
going for the first part

of 2014, this is before
Matt and Virgil came along.

- This is probably
not gonna do anything.

(engines whines)

- Choke it, choke it.
- Yeah, I've got it choked.

C'mon, yeah!

(engine thrumming)

I'm driving, I'm come
towards Lehighton

and I'm coming down this 209,

and there's construction,
there's construction

on the bridge and
traffic is backed up

all the way down 443 and up 209.

I decide I'll take a
detour, I bust out my trusty

road atlas and I don't
have a smartphone,

I use maps, I'm old
school and basically track

the new route, I never
gone down that road,

first time I ever drove down
it was a good couple years ago

and I was going down 443
and I see the marquee,

the big red arrow that
a first impression was

oh a bed and drive-in I
should go check that out.

Gave Virgil a call right away.

- And said you'll never
believe what I'm looking at.

He says I'm standing under
the marquee of a drive-in.

- That's where I met Jeff.

(calm electronic music)

He invited me into
the projection booth.

I sat down that old
antique theater chair

and we literally talked
for like an hour.

- Late 50s, early 60s
this was the way to go

as far as sound goes
because magnetic sound

was better than optical sound,
because the only speakers

you had at a drive-in
were those little speakers

in the steel case,
it's not high fidelity.

- Jeff I don't know
what to say about Jeff.

He's a magician.
- As soon as I met Jeff,

the first day that I met
Jeff, I knew that he was

gonna be (laughs) a really
important part of my life.

He's not worried about
all this other shit

that everybody else
worries about all the time.

You know what I mean
he is very pure.

- Did you leave your hot
dog clamps on here or what?

(laughs)

- So then I am the
projectionist and the owner

of the drive-in and
I lease the property,

I do not own the property,
boy I wish I did,

I hope that's coming some
day, I own the business,

but the property is
still owned by the guy

who's had it for decades
and he leases it to me,

but some day I would
like to buy the property

so that I actually own the
whole lock stock and barrel.

- I consider Jeff's
relationship here as that piece

of the past and Matt and
myself coming in here

is a little breath
of the future.

- They knew an opening that
I was not familiar with.

They knew social
media, where I did not,

I only knew the
bare bones of it.

- He saw that immediately,
that these guys want to

help me save this drive-in.

(calm electronic music)

- When Matt and Virgil
came in, I honestly

didn't know what to
think of them at first

and there's definitely a lot
of frustration I felt like

I was just pushed aside and
I wasn't important anymore,

we definitely has
some arguments,
especially Matt and I.

- Jess has been around
longer than any of us,

with the exception of
Jeff, the hardest thing

for her I think is
when we showed up,

everything just got
turned on its head,

everything is different,
all of a sudden.

- I was very upset, I
would talk to my parents

about it or Jeff, because
I'm really close with Jeff.

- Well, she was a little
bit worried at first

that maybe Virgil and
Matt wouldn't take to her

that much and I said don't
worry, I said I hired you.

- He's always been there
for me especially with

the changeover,
like he's probably

been the biggest supporter.

- Jessica is nostalgia
herself because she's the last

holdover from my old
crew from years ago,

Jessica is the last
person still with me

that was there years ago.

- When Virgil and I
came into the fold,

it was in dire straits,
we're looking at

four car nights at best.

- We weren't getting
any business really,

there was people
barely showing up,

which was just
heartbreaking to see.

- I was driving up to
the theater one day,

it's when Guardians of
the Galaxy first came out.

Everybody had Guardians of
the Galaxy and I thought

it thins out the herd too much.

We've got two great movies
for you, first of all,

we've got Guardians of the
Galaxy and that's rated PG-13.

So we finally decided
okay, once we're done

with Guardians of the Galaxy,

that's our last brand new movie.

After this, we're going
retro, we're going classic.

It was up and down, it
was a rollercoaster.

By the end of the season,
overall we had lost money.

I don't mind admitting that,
we had lost money overall.

I know this place went
through some scary times.

Every now and then
somebody offers to buy it,

they want to take it
out from under us,

but fortunately the land
owner he won't sell it.

He will not sell it.

Yeah, sure, we'd like to
make money, that's important,

everybody wants to make
money, nobody wants to do

it for free, but the idea
is to save the drive-in

and to keep it going
and get it even better

than what it is,
so all three of us,

we worked for free
last year basically.

We haven't taken any pay checks.

We're not paying
ourselves at all.

- It's a piece of
my dream coming true

and that's all I can
ask for you know.

- That's the short
story, that's basically

how it all came together.

- It's a universal story and
that story needs to be told.

(gun shot rings out)

- When he first came out, yeah,
I usually take the tickets

every night and when they're
doing work since I live

down the road, I'll just come
in and do stuff whatever.

- Yeah, we just
come and help out.

That's why we came here,
because we were always like

wow I wish that drive-in was
open and played old horror

movies because I would go
every time it was open.

- Very good deal, I mean
free admission, free food

and free movie just for
helping out, all I do is just

take tickets, it's easy too,
because it's $10 a person

so you don't have to
remember a lot of shit

and then I don't know I just
like shitty little movies,

like lower the budget
the better usually.

- We're gonna break to
slide away our slides.

So I'm just kind of clean
sweeping everything.

We started from that
end, we're decluttering,

we're moving this way, I'm
now by our storage chest,

which are actually
ancient freezers.

It goes dormant for six
months and for six months,

it gets dusty, dusty,
dirty, animals break in,

you just have to clean
it, hose it all down,

power wash it, it's
not a glorious job,

not necessarily a fun
job, but it's rewarding.

- I am all right.
- My name's Corey

and I'm basically
just the head chef.

Was asked by Matt
to help out cooking,

but I've kind of made
cooking my whole life,

so kind of just fit in
and all this stuff is

basic drive-in food, fries,
hamburgers, we also do

chicken nuggets, we
do veggie burgers too.

They were thinking of
closing two years ago

and Matt was like no
that can't happen,

we have to keep
this place going,

this is a piece of history.

That's what keeps
me coming back,

that's what keeps me
sleeping here too sometimes

on every weekend it's kind
of a trek to get up here

so we'll just crash
here, we'll sleep.

(drill humming)

- It's easier to
stay there than it is

to drive all the way home.

Yes, home sweet home.

- You have guys like Matt
and Corey that are staying

at the theater over night
from Thursday through Sunday.

- We spent all weekend
here, we basically prep

the place, clean the place
and run it when it's open

in terms of the
concession end of things.

It's finding the people
who will do that,

finding the company
is fun to be around,

this man is the most
fun to be around.

- Yes, and we do it because
who else, who else but us?

And lettuce?

So lettuce begin.
- Whoa.

He and I have worked
together for years.

He's one of my best friends.

- [Announcer] Now Mark's
only hope may be his last.

- Well see these
torches go against the--

- That's probably the biggest
project we've worked on

is Demon Stone, my
first feature film.

That actually premiered
last season at the drive-in.

- [Announcer] Demon
Stone, coming soon.

- Ah, oh, oh yeah
get me out of the car

and I'm all stiff and I can't
walk, thanks a lot. (laughs)

- How are you brother?
- Hey Virgil.

Forgot one thing in the
back seat, gotta get

the time clock out.
- Oh yeah, it's official,

it's official now.
- Yeah.

- Want me to help you
carry anything in?

- Well if you want to
carry that you can.

It's not that heavy, but
it's hard for one end of it.

Here we are man.
- Five days, Wings Hauser.

- Wings Hauser. (laughs)

35mm.

- Baby steps.
- It's been a little while

since I've been up here.

- Ooh, ooh.
- Yep, just like

I remembered it.
- Please don't.

- Virgil is my film agent,
he takes care of Hollywood.

He gets all the film sent at
the right time and books them.

- 35mm baby we're back!

All right, you want to
hold the ladder for me?

- Looks good.
- It looks beautiful.

- My film agent at the
time was not happy with me

because he was a
first run film agent.

He didn't want to
be booking old films

because that's not
where the money is

you know that's not
where revenue is for
the film companies.

The film companies aren't
gonna like the fact

that he's booking retro
so he didn't really want

to be a part of it so I gave
the film agent job to Virgil.

- Guess I'll move this,
all right, so that's sent,

so literally what we just
did is is e-mailed Paramount

just like that because we had
to change in our schedule.

Originally we were
planning on trying to make

a Patrick Swayze weekend work,
Crazy for Swayze weekend work

but it's amazing honestly
that we have that type

of relationship now
with the studios that

we're on a first name basis.

One of the studios had
said you guys are nuts

the fact that you're
transferring back
to reel to reel

and standing on the fact
that you're gonna be able

to get 35mm for a long time.

He said literally my
only suggestion to you

is go digital and was like
very true to heart about it.

And this is the same guy
now that responds to me

like that whenever we come to
him with a new 35mmm request.

We have technical standouts
now at the theater

on why it is appealing for
people to want to do shows

with us, the idea that we
have the largest CinemaScope

screen in Pennsylvania,
second on the East Coast

and in the country
is for some people

they would kill to be
able to have their film

shown on that screen, not
only that but we transferred

back to reel to reel,
which for some people,

that's the only way that
they will put their films

out there, so that
opened up the door for us

as far as being able to
get private collectors.

- [Man] Ladies and
gentleman in the 1950s,

the world had 5,000 drive-ins.

- For a dying medium
it needs people like us

to kind of keep
it alive you know

and stand on that
podium I guess,

on high ground and
shout it (shouts).

(laughs)

These are ideas of

like actors we want
to do retrospectives

of certain actors and
obviously directors,

some of them we've already been
able to check off the list.

- Any feature that we put
in, any double that is

Mahoning-branded show is
the brain child of Virgil.

- But this office in
general has become like a

brainstorming center for
me as far as the booking

of the films goes, but you
know these are dream lists

in a weird way, it's like
obviously we want to do

Coen Brothers one year,
we obviously are going

to do a Coppola weekend one
year, but I think this is

I don't know a weird
little motivator for me.

- Just wondering when
you guys are swinging by?

Cool, yeah, there's no
rush, just the gate opens

at six is all, all right
we'll see you soon bud.

Peace.

Said he wanted to help us
and show up right away,

I get worried, I'm like
a protective mother.

I'm a helicopter mom.

I'm a helicopter Matt.

I'm bit a disjunctive
personality,

meaning it doesn't
exactly line up,

I have this weird
intense serious side

that tends to come out
in stressful situations

that's just like all
business and no bullshit,

like get stuff fucking done.

What's going on here at the
fryer, what's going on here?

What's this?

And then there's times
where I become an alien

and chase people around
the lot so I you know.

- I know, I know, don't
look at the camera,

don't look at the camera.
- How you doing?

- Good, good to see you guys
I'd expect nothing less.

(calm electronic music)

- What's up Virgil,
what's going on man?

- [Virgil] It's all happening
my friend, it's all happening.

- Ashley, hi, how you doing?
- Hi Jeff.

- All right, okay, here we are.

Our season opener is
always The Wizard of Oz

and Willy Wonka and
the Chocolate Factory

because it's a
tradition and everybody

wants to get here for that.

(calm piano and violin music)

- Say cheese.
- Cheese.

- Show time!

Good evening, ladies and
gentleman and welcome

to the Mahoning Drive-in
Theater, one of the largest

and oldest drive-ins with
one of the largest screens

left in the United States,
we're certainly glad

you can be with us this
evening, especially

you're not just here
on opening weekend,

you're here on opening
night and that's fantastic.

All you folks out there,
you make us feel real good

for showing up tonight,
I think we've got a great

season ahead of us, we've
got two great classics

for you tonight of course
we have the Wizard of Oz,

1939, I don't think
anybody every remade that

unless you're talking
about The Wiz,

but and then our
second film tonight is

Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory,

the original from
1971 with Gene Wilder.

(film projector rattling)

(old time movie music)

- I'm catching up
on Rick and Morty

and discovering his
work in that has been

another one of the many ways--

- The Mahoning Drive-in Theater
is filled with characters

to say the least and
maybe one of the biggest

characters I'd say is Robert.

- It is a nice image,
I kind of made me gasp,

I guess you're recording now,
well what does Roger Ebert

say, movies are
windows to the world,

they're like empathy
machines and I love

sort of the democracy of
movies, they can be anything

and I love popular movies,
I love the small arty films

and coming here for the first
time for The Wizard of Oz

was perfect, I feel almost
blessed and I'm not even

necessarily a religious
person but movies bring me

closer to God or whatever
you want to call it.

Yeah, I'm into it, I'm a zealot.

- He's the king of conversation.

- I'm gonna be here, like
I counted the movies,

I think I'm already planning
on seeing 35 movies here

this summer and those
are just the weekends

you've announced.
- He's very sweet,

sometimes I don't know
what to say to him

because I just feel like
he has so much knowledge

on all these older films
and I just don't know

how to chime into to compare
with what he has to say.

- He has an analysis
of everything.

- Yeah, it was a little
hard for me the first time

I watched My Son, My
Son What Have Ye Done,

but I think it's worth
taking that leap of faith.

I don't even really care about
the Friday the 13th movies.

I was this close
to Sam Neal once.

I'm not going to make
this easy for you

in the editing room,
I'm really sorry.

That was the year of the
terrible Godzilla movie.

The Brexit this morning
so stupid, so stupid.

Superhero movies even where
they're good in many cases

bore me because it
feels so cookie cutter.

I fall asleep during
the climaxes of Ant-man

and The Amazing Spiderman,
but then something like

Mad Max: Fury Road comes
out and I see it eight times

in theaters, I'm not sure,
I have to double check.

I actually do keep track.

- Sometimes weird
stuff happens out here.

Last year was mice
used to run around

when we were sitting in here
after it's quiet for a while,

they start to touch
your shoelaces and stuff

and you look down and
then they run away,

but this year for
some reason it's ants.

Try crawling in
my soda and stuff

and I probably
drink a whole bunch.

Some people get mad too
about the movie price

$10 per person is
apparently too much some guy

like freaked out on his
wife and he was like

that's it we're going home
and they pull over there

and they just sit forever
and I can just see him

yelling in the car
and then he comes back

and I tell him the price
and he goes yeah I know

and he just throws the
money at me and drives in.

- Ladies and gentleman
thanks for coming out tonight

at the Mahoning Drive-in Theater
especially on opening night

you made us feel fantastic,
we hope you'll come back

and see us again soon.

Good night and God bless.

- Nice to see you.
- Me too.

- I missed you guys.
- Yes.

- What do you think?

- I think we had a
successful show my friend.

- Think so?

I'm pleased with
what we did tonight.

Considering the weather
was supposed to be bad,

turns it wasn't, but that's
what people were expecting,

so I am overall
pleased with tonight,

thinking about it I am I am yep.

- All right brothers.
- All right man, take it easy.

- See you soon, drive safe.
- See you tomorrow night.

- Brother.
(mimics exploding sound)

(radio music)

- Honestly, like there are
worst things in this world

than Ewoks.
- Minions.

- There are minions,
there are emojis.

- They're Ice Age in Space.
- Is that a thing?

- Yep.

- Oh, you would think
they would notice

that their headlights are
shining on the screen.

- [Matt] Do you think
they notice that or not?

- No they're shit on
the brain I don't know.

- Oh thanks, enjoy the movie.
- It just makes me feel

all worm inside and nostalgic.

I haven't been to a drive-in,
there used to be one

in Limerick, Pennsylvania
and it's closed now.

I think they made it into
a Target and (laughs)

I think the last movie I
saw there was Funny Farm

with Chevy Chase and I saw
Beetlejuice there in the 80s.

I haven't been to one in
20 years and I'm 38 now

so this is exciting
to be back here.

It's very fun.

(calm electronic music)

- All throughout my
childhood, my dad went to

Back East and
Shanklauder's, so for me

the drive-in experience
is burned into my soul

and so discovering this
place, it was almost

like a calling, I was like
oh, the second I saw this lot,

I was like this is big,
this is a special place.

(sighs)

- So for me like a lot of
people the drive-in represents

a simpler time, it's
a nostalgia place,

but for me it brings me
back to a simpler time.

My initial love of storytelling
and film and theater

in general started
at a drive-in.

We had the Bucks
County Twin in my town,

which I saw so many double
features there with my family

I'm getting emotional
talking about it.

I fell in love with
film in the back seat

of my parent's car, you
know what I mean and

that comradery with my family
is something that I feel like

we're trying to build
back with the drive-in.

(calm electronic music)

- When I was little we went
to a lot of drive-in theaters

and I don't know I remember
looking out of the car windows

and seeing all kinds of
people I didn't know walking

around the field and walking
in and out of the concession

stand and we always
parked in the field

where I could see the people
going into the concession stand

and coming out and seeing the
lights on the concession stand

and of course I would see
the intermission reels

when they would play
and it just made

a magical kind of thing
and it just stuck with me

even through the years that I
was running in-door theaters.

The drive-in thing
always stuck with me

and I always thought gee
wouldn't that be neat

some day if I could
run a drive-in?

The one we went to the most
often was the Super Skyway,

that was in Coonsville,
right outside of Allentown

and one day they
pack us up in the car

it's the middle of the
afternoon, where are we going?

Well, you'll find out.

Well I thought this was neat
because it just happened

to be my birthday, right, yeah.

So all of a sudden they're
heading over towards

Coonsville towards
the drive-in theater,

towards the Super
Skyway and I'm wondering

why are we going over here?

It's like six hours before
the show's even gonna start,

they aren't even
letting people in yet,

this is like three
in the afternoon,

so we went over there and
they drive up to the gate

and they just keep
on going, no tickets,

they just drive into
the field, of course

there's nobody there
I said what's going on

and they're like well
this is happy birthday

and I was like what,
and they had actually

gotten permission from
the manager to let us

come on the field early and
have a birthday party for me.

And it was it was fantastic.

Oh we saw all kinds of
movies there over the years,

but that was neat, yep.

I still have both of them,
but they haven't been

in good health
for several years,

so when I think back
to that I remember when

they were young and
in great health and

it was just a fantastic time,
it was a great time, yep.

- Oh yeah, oh yeah, big
time big time, big time.

Very busy, huh, wrong
place at the wrong time,

had a couple of wonderful
girlfriends in my history,

women that I love dearly
from the air force on

and just either my
working schedule

or something in well

yeah I regret not
having a wife and kids,

I think that would be perfect,

but I tried gave a 150%
whenever I had a relationship,

I really gave a
150%, I tried to,

but for whatever
reason I'm still single

and I've got radio and I've
got my drive-in, whoopee,

no it's cool, but
I do regret it,

it's a good thing to mention.

- You know we talk a
lot about getting back

to a simpler time and
nostalgia and this world

is insane (laughs)
you know what I mean

and I mean I see why
people want to escape.

Why people want to
get out of their head

because life's hard as shit.

The older you get I
see it, loss of love,

loss of life, like
you long for simple

and long for a time that
is pure and Mahoning

is a portal into that
without a doubt you know.

- Hey, what's
happening my friend.

How are you?
- Hey how's it going?

- Good to see you.
- Gene, how's it going man?

- Okay, yeah.
- All right.

- There, make out of that.

What does timeline mean,
what does that mean?

- Hm?
- What is timeline?

- Timeline is like it's
basically, it's your profile

it's everything that you post
or people share with you.

There you are.
- Mm-hmm.

I had glasses on there but
they weren't dark frames.

They were clear glasses.

- Gene is that portal back
to the days of the Mahoning

specifically that we
don't have access to.

- He's like the
Yoda of this place,

they kind of travel to him

and get the sage
wisdom of the past.

- He was the original
projectionist at the drive-in.

He opened the place in
1948, I'm sorry '49.

Yeah I know, I know, I
keep I do the same thing,

it was built in '48,
let me start that again,

he was the original
projectionist from 1949.

- [Virgil] So we established
it was definitely '49.

- Definitely, you want to
go to the bureau building

and find out the
rights, go ahead, geez.

(laughs)

- [Jeff] Now I've got a copy
of the ad from opening night.

I have a copy of that.

- April 29th?
- April something.

- '49 April.
- April sign.

- April Showers.
- April Showers.

- In April.
- Ann Sothern

and Jack Carson was in it.

- And everything was set up
exactly like it is now right.

- Yep.
- So the projection room--

- Those E7s are still
around, Jeff huh?

- Yes they are.
- Did it pay well back then?

- Well yeah, well I loved
it, I didn't care if

I didn't get paid nothing
I loved it so much.

- Absolutely.
- That's how I felt Virgil,

I'm telling you.
- Well we know how that is

because we don't get paid.

We're the same exact way.

- Well, where did
you get trained on?

- Apanesca, I think I was
about 12 years old I guess.

I was working them
when I was under age,

when the war broke out, the
one operator got drafted.

- [Virgil] Wow, so
you're in there at 12?

- And the government left me
go, they said let them work

we need manpower.
- (laughs) They're like

ah, we'll look the other way.
- Yeah, they turned their head

the other way.
(laughs)

My favorite thing was I
used to love they went in

and inspect the film, we had
to inspect in those years.

- Oh yeah.
- Run through your fingers,

Jeff, you know.
- I still do it.

I still do it on most
of them not all of them.

- [Virgil] And this was right
around here, this photo?

- Banger, Rosetta.
- Wow.

Well I remember we asked
you if you had any personal

pictures and your
answer was they're with

all of your old
girlfriends. (laughs)

They held onto them--
- A couple, a concession

that they kept coming
over to the projectioner,

I didn't get the
gist of it, you know.

- Kept giving you the peek?
- Yeah.

Beautiful, that's why I got
married late in life probably,

yeah you better get
married, it's getting late.

- Would she come out to
the drive-in with you?

- Very rarely and then
she got a kidney disease

and she got like kidney
transplant, it lasted 17 years.

It conked out, they couldn't
get it going anymore.

She passed away.

- That's a shame.
- Yep.

- I miss going out there.

I just love running movies.

I used to work till one o'
clock and I'd go to work

the next morning.
- Oh me too.

Yeah me too.
- When you get used to it,

I don't mind it one bit,
three hours sleep, I'm up.

- Stop in again.
- I will my friend.

I'll see you soon.
- I can talk more and more

I can keep talking.
- Yeah, I know you can.

(old time movie music)

- Today, it was 11:30, we
usually stay up pretty late,

but it was 2:30 and we were
like we need to go to sleep

because I mean it's not
that we're gonna have

a crazy night tonight,
we don't think it,

but we hope--
- Yeah, it's supposed to rain

I think.
- Yeah, we hope something good

happens or we have some
kind of profitable thing.

(radio noises)

Matt

are you dressed,
hey, are you dressed?

There's this weird hole here,
used to have a door knob.

Matt, hey, are you dressed?

Are you I don't know oh yeah.

There's a gentleman here.

(quacks)

- Breakfast.

Well I thought we had
like 32 people last night

and I think it's messier than
some of our bigger nights.

Oh the used condom that
I found in the bush

behind that exit sign all the
way on the end of the lot.

That's kind of weird.

I don't know why you wouldn't
just do that back here

or anywhere else
besides under that bush.

(rain falling)

(spray bottle hisses)

(muffled voices talking)

- I don't know I mean it's
never happened before,

I know that there was one
time when it was raining

real bad and it was only
one dude and we still

showed the movie for him,
but there's never been

a time when it's
just zero people,

you know what I mean, the
least that ever show up

would be like 20 or
something like that,

and it's rare when
it's that little.

Oh it's Jeff.

- Hey.

Nothing like showing up
late to your own party.

Oh my gosh, do we
have anybody yet?

- No.
- Nah?

- No.
- All right, but we'll see,

it's a messy night,
but we may get

a couple people showing up.

- Yeah, hopefully.
- Yeah.

- I remember cutting
high school to go and see

the original Spiderman,
but it rained that weekend

and we got the worst
attendance of the year.

- All right, all right.
- All right.

- [Jeff] Then they're
rolling, we're rolling.

(projection reel rattling)

Then if you only have a
couple of cars send them home.

No you don't just
send them home,

how do you know how far
these people have traveled?

You don't just go, oh
I'm sorry, it's raining,

we're closing tonight,
you don't do that.

You run.

- Every single weekend we
have people coming from

New York, New Jersey, Maryland.

- So here in Keen, New
Hampshire on this lovely

sweltering Friday morning I
usually like to start my day

roughly on the road by
10:00 at the latest.

- It's amazing I think he
said it takes him five hours

one way to drive, that's
just how much he loves--

Oh, six and a half.

- People think I'm crazy
when I tell them that I drive

six and a half hours to be here.

I think they don't understand
exactly what this place is.

They say, well don't you
have any drive-ins closer,

well yeah I've got
one 45 minutes away,

but it's not the same thing.

The Mahoning is different
though, it is truly

a love of film, I love
it, I mean Matt and Corey

don't believe me
when I tell them,

I thoroughly love
what I do here,

I love dealing with
the people, I basically

just run the register
at the snack bar.

Thank you very much.
- Thank you.

- Enjoy.
- Yep.

- I am paid nothing, I
worked my way all the way up

to being an unpaid
snack bar attendant.

Pretty much true.

- But for somebody's
who's volunteering

and isn't really getting
anything out of it,

except a free hamburger you
know or something you know,

I mean he can eat
all the food he wants

if he's driving six
and a half hours.

- And if people think
I'm crazy, let them.

I don't really mind that
much, it makes me happy.

So everything I need
to be somewhat human

fits into a tidy backpack
here, along with holiday-themed

unmentionables, my
Mahoning work shirts,

a change of shirt in
case it's a hot day,

I am now the
cleanest I will feel

for the next three days and
it is time to hit the road.

(old time movie music)

So I pass it every time
I come down here twice

and some day I will stop
when I have enough time

and enjoy the Snake
and Animal Farm.

And this is why I
always leave early.

Invariably, somewhere
along the way

traffic is gonna
come down to a crawl.

And here I am in Pennsylvania.

(rain falling)

My heart always sinks a
little when this happens.

It always seems like the
closer I get to Lehighton,

the more chance of rain, I
don't know for me driving

rain at the drive-in
isn't a huge deal, I mean

you turn your wipers on, but
I want the place to do well

and I know most normal
people when it starts to rain

they just cross the
drive-in off their list.

So today it took me about
seven hours to get here.

The first big thrill is always
seeing the Mahoning sign,

makes me happy, lets me know
I'm kind of back home again,

but really the excitement
for me kicks the first time

I see the screen, there it is,

the giant, towering
Mahoning screen.

(old time movie music)

- So what this has
created here it's a clear

health code violation.

(kite rustling)

- The flag of our people,
the symbol of our planet.

- Well every weekend isn't
going to be a winner.

We had one or two
weekends where the turnout

wasn't what I expected,
I thought it really
would be better.

We're four months
done and two left,

so we're like three
quarters of the way

through the season and I
would say maybe three weekends

weren't what I thought, so
that's a pretty good record.

That's a pretty good record.

- My zombie getup.

- With any show that
we decide to put on,

any theme that we decide
to hit, without a doubt

James has memorabilia
or something that falls

into the the love of
that theme or that film.

- Right, I brought stuff
at the Wal-Mart because

only a few things.
- Oh, that's great.

- It means the stuff
that I buy for myself

doesn't make me a hoarder
if I'm able to share it

with other people, because
I'm already gonna get it

anyway, some of it at least.

So I met as well it's sad
when it's just sitting

in my house or my garage
and nobody sees it,

except for me.
- He is the guy that

single-handedly turns our
show into an experience.

- [Virgil] That'll be a
fun and great day you know.

- I'll try to come
up as much as I can.

- No, definitely dude.

- Camp Blood though, I'm
calling dibs on this because

I'm really--
- Dibs I'm telling you

it's yours.
- Invested in this.

- It's yours, it's
yours, well it's yours.

- Like I'm gonna try
to make this as much

like you're in Camp
Crystal Lake as possible.

- That's what we really
kind of need to work toward.

- I'm used to at my
job nobody really cares

about the things
that I care about.

I can't really go and you know
up to somebody I work with

and express like oh my
God, isn't this cool

that this is happening like
they don't really care,

it's not a big deal to them,
but then I get to come down

here and watch Night
of the Living Dead

and dress up as a
zombie and you know

it is cool to be able
to show that part

of myself and have people
actually care what I'm saying

and not just be like all
right, yeah whatever,

you're a movie fan
I get it you know.

But here it's like everybody
is, everyone's a movie fan.

Everybody if you're here,
if you made the trip,

there's a reason for it.

- Give me a second
here, so unfortunately

I couldn't make it to
most of the events prior,

because I was a server,
but I just quit my job

to make it out here and you
gotta do what you gotta do.

So now I can go to all of
the horror events I want.

- This is my first time
actually I've never been here

before and I'm pretty
excited about it.

- Don't leave home without it.

This is just to show the
friendly horror chicks

that we're not misogynist
pigs, we have appreciation

for all genders of Disney films

and we love our heroines,
not heroin, heroines,

but yeah drive-in is like
the best way to see a movie.

- And you know drive-ins
too they're kind of going

the way of the dodo, so I mean--

- Yeah, not many left.
- Not that many

that are around here,
you gotta support them.

- Support the hell
out of the drive-ins,

so you know I'm an
old school horror guy,

my mom got me started on it,
so I have a lot of appreciation

for actual reels and all that.

- I love the festival mentality
that we've brought to it

and with us working
with outside people

like Exhumed Films or
Grindhouse Pictures,

we're hitting the
Grindhouse Market now.

♪ They're a church in the
valley by the wild wood ♪

♪ No lovelier spot in the dale

♪ No place is so dear
to my childhood ♪

♪ As the little brown
church in the vale ♪

♪ Oh come to the church
in the wild wood ♪

♪ To the trees where
the wild flowers bloom ♪

- You haven't lived until
you're eating a corn dog

at 2:00 in the morning. (laughs)

- I'm used to this after
15 years, I love it.

I don't love the temperature
and the humidity sometimes,

but I still love the job.

♪ Come come come

♪ Come to the church
in the wild wood ♪

♪ Oh come to the
church in the vale ♪

♪ No place is so dear
to my childhood ♪

♪ As the little brown
church in the vale ♪

- Thanks man.
- Thank you.

♪ How sweet on a clear
Sabbath morning ♪

- The international film make
Kevin Smorth finally made it.

♪ Its tone so sweet

- [Man] This is what
it's all about man,

you know what I mean, the
fandom in the extreme.

♪ Oh come to the
church in the vale ♪

(grunting)

- Oh you scratched. (laughs)

(muffled people talking)

- When's the movie
supposed to come out?

Because I understand
you started off

wanting to make a movie
about drive-ins and then

decided to make a movie about
this drive-in, very cool.

- Yeah.
- Very cool.

I don't know I want
to see more like these

documentaries that don't get
the huge national exposure,

I'm finding more and more
interesting sometimes

like I'll always watch a
Herzog or an Errol Morse film,

but there was this one film
that I barely even knew

existed but I had
a chance to see it,

it was called
Dwarves Kingdom and

it was this really
insightful into like

all of these issues
race and xenophobias

and it ended with I think
an accidental homage

to Citizen Kane, but I thought
it totally fucking earned it

and the film maker was there

so that was a pretty
cool experience.

(car engine rumbles)

- He e-mailed us actually
a couple days before,

saying I have a DeLorean
I'm thinking about coming

to the drive-in
would that be cool?

Like as if that's
not cool. (laughs)

And he didn't confirm
that he would show up,

he just said he was
thinking about it

and he did, he just
totally surprised us.

- The illusion,
it doesn't go out

as far as it looks.
- Oh Mills wasn't,

well he was made for this car.

Hell yeah dude.

- I've been waiting
to sit in a DeLorean,

I think this was the right place

to break my DeLorean virginity

with about to watch a
35mm Back to the Future

and sit in a DeLorean
for the first time,

that was pretty sweet.

(old time movie music)

- Hi guys, how's it going?

- Good.
- Not bad.

- I've only missed
one weekend so far,

that's because I was in Georgia.

I'm gonna volunteer
Sunday of this week

for the first time as
long as nothing changes

with my plans that day, I'm
looking forward to getting

to know most of the
other volunteers better,

I mean there's a
different dynamic

when you're on the other
side of the counter

and I've tried to respect
the fact that they're part

of an organization as friendly
and casual as I may be,

they can't always
match me at that level

and I think I'm looking
to erode that a little bit

by becoming more
officially part of it.

- I'm assuming it's the
original Hills Have Eyes,

granted I haven't seen it.
- Yeah, yeah.

- I haven't seen the remake
so I can't pass judgment,

but I can be skeptical.

- Four bucks is your change man.

- Thank you sir, so
yeah my friend can help,

his name is Kyle and
he and I have been like

basically joined at the
hip except for actually

becoming adults and moving
apart to different cities,

so it'll be something
to fucking see.

It'll be like two of me
talking, yeah I've got this one.

- One day I guess--

(hammer loudly tapping)

- Yeah, that's not going up--
- I feel like we do a lot

of horror films, that's
personally not my favorite.

So and I feel like kids
wouldn't come to that.

- Sebastian.
- And Stefan.

- Mine is from Part 5 and I
like it because blue is my

favorite color and I
like the designs on it.

It's really awesome.

- I keep forgetting about this
mask from what part it is.

- This mask is from Part 7,
I don't know why he chose it,

seven why did you
choose that mask?

- I keep forgetting that.

- They know the difference
between what's real

and what's fake and they
just like the entertainment

of the movies and they
just really like it

I mean I don't see nothing wrong

I mean I was raised on
it and my generation

was raised on it, I grew
up fine, I'm working.

I raise a family.
(laughs)

Not mention we also have a
six foot animatronic Jason

at home that we put out,

so the boys really get
a quick out of that,

right guys?
- Yeah.

(whistle blows)

(people laughing)

(people laughing)
(people clapping)

(people cheering and clapping)

(video game music)

- [Man] I can't get
out of this room.

- The fact that they're open.

- Right here.

Wait, you can't see it. (laughs)

- It's a bitch.

- Sorry.

- I show up as Jason
and people seem to

like need to get
a picture with me,

so it's pretty sweet to
go on Instagram, Facebook,

wherever and see pictures of
me that people are posting.

It was really surreal
to be walking around

during Friday the 13th Part
6 dressed up as Part 6 Jason.

(calm piano music)
(bus engine rattling)

- Friends, we have
all come here today

to witness an important
day in the lives

of Tricia and Sean, they
have invited us all here

to share with them their
expression of love for

and commitment to one another.

- I thought it was the
ultimate compliment.

I really did, people love
your drive-in so much

they want to get married there.

- And then it came down
to logistics of it,

how do we put a
wedding on this lot?

You know what I mean, how
do we make this a memorable

thing for Sean and Tricia?

- Sean, I choose you
forever and always,

in sickness and health
and failure and triumph.

I will dream with you,
celebrate with you

and walk beside you through
whatever our lives may bring.

- Tricia, I love
you so very much

and I promise I'll
always be this tall

and I'll always be this funny.

(laughs)

And I can't wait to spend
the rest of my life with you.

- By the power of your
love and commitment

and the power vested in me

I now pronounce you
husband and wife,

Sean you may kiss your bride.

(people cheering and clapping)

- We just love coming to
the Mahoning drive-in,

it's a wonderful place, the
first time we ever came here,

it was I would say a few
years ago and we came

and we loved it, one
of three cars here

and the last people
were Tricia, Jeff and I

and we thanked them
for the evening,

and we've just been trying
to come back as much

as we can ever since, it's
you don't get an experience

like this pretty much
anywhere, a triple feature

in the middle of a giant
field, screen that big.

It's magic.

(calm electronic music)

- Every great story
starts with having a beer.

Corey and I bought this 3,000
lumen standard definition

Viewsonic projector a few
hundred bucks on Amazon

and I got it for
the explicit purpose

of lighting up a small
screen in the snack bar

to project VHS tapes during
intermission and stuff,

just as an extra little bonus.

We're playing with it,
we're playing tapes

and we're drinking
beer and you know

a couple beers I was
pointing out the screen,

let's drag it outside
and aim at the screen,

just see, let's just see,
so we get an extension cord,

we plug it into the wall

and we wander outside and just.

- It's something that
shouldn't have worked.

It wasn't bright, but
it filled that screen,

but then one day Matt said
to me he said you know what?

He said I think if I bought
a couple of auditorium-sized

projectors and stacked
them together so that

they would have a
brighter output, he said

I think I could
fill that screen.

- What got the ball
rolling with this thing

was that Jaws screening.
- I was on my way

into Allentown to
pick up supplies

and I got the call from
Virgil that the prints

weren't going to show up.

- I feel like I walked
into Matt panicking

and he was just like
our film didn't come in,

I'm trying to figure
out a solution,

this is what I'm doing.

I need you to stay here,
I'll be taking care of that,

if you really need me,
come out and get me.

It was just it was a madhouse.

- So comes showtime Friday
night, we have Jurassic Park,

but we don't have Jaws.

- So we were totally screwed,
we promoted this thing

as Bite Night, Jaws and
Jurassic Park, a tag team.

- So we thought well we already
know we have the license

to run it, we have
the rights to run it.

- We were scheduled
to play Jaws tonight,

35mm print, obviously,
that's what we do

and we got a call zero
hour from Universal

saying that the print is
delayed on the deliver,

now for us we don't
really have an option

as far as a backup for
something like that,

it's pretty much the show
goes on or we cancel the show,

so what Matt's doing up
there if you can see it is

he's calibrating a kind
of a back door approach

to doing digital.
- I'm aligning these two

so the same image they're
the image is aligned up

on the screen and I'm
using this test pattern

here as a means of
synchronizing the two

and what it does is it
increases the brightness,

so these two projectors
are going to hopefully

light up that giant
CinemaScope screen.

- Fingers crossed that
this all goes well

because if that screen says
Jaws in about five minutes,

we're all gonna be happy.

- So it was kind of a
blessing in the sense that

well none of us know
what's gonna happen,

so I guess we're all
in this together.

(radio music)

- Sorry.
- There we go.

We're jacked in, we're plugged
in, all the sounds going.

- The suspense is killing me.
- I know.

(laughs)

(howls)

- This is the first time
we've done anything like that,

literally, put on a show
actually first realized

we don't even have a
print, then realized

that no one wants to see any
other print that we have,

so we have to put on this
show somehow, digital.

- That was basically
our first real test

of the system.
- But it worked,

the fact that it worked
was enough for me

to explore the idea
and begin developing

an actual system that
we could professionally

premier a film, I don't
know that weekend is

pretty pivotal and that's
what really threw us

into building the
actual projection booth.

- And then I had the
booth constructed

with projection glass,
which is low iron glass,

it's specific glass
for a projection booth.

- So the way this works

we've got three large
venue projectors,

these are like
auditorium projectors

that you'd find at like
a school or a business

and what I've done
is I have routed them

all into a splitter,
a VGA splitter,

that goes into a laptop,
there's also an analog splitter

here for like VCRs, DVD
players things like that,

so there's two inputs
in each projector,

but it's all coming
from the same source,

so each of these projectors
are getting the same signal.

And what I've done is
I've overlaid the image

to make it brighter, each
projector adds brightness,

more light in one
space, so the idea is

with these three projectors
we're able to illuminate

with a presentable
image the entire screen

that's corner to corner
of the whole scope.

It's exciting you know as
Jeff it doesn't take anything

away, that's the important thing
that's what we wanted to do

it doesn't change
the original booth,

it doesn't change the drive-in,
this is completely mobile,

this is completely unobstructive

and it basically is a
system that can it's a tool

it adds to what
we can already do.

Now we can do anything.

- As far as digital goes,
it's a $5,000 answer

to a $100,000 question.
- Absolutely.

- That's 5-6,000
including the projectors,

instead of turning this
into a $100,000 mess.

- We have a means to
play digital films now

and it freaked some people out.

For some people the reason
they come to the Mahoning

is to see 35mm film
for a lot of people

that's the reason they
come to the Mahoning.

- I wouldn't want to see
a digital presentation

done like that instead
of a film print.

Like I know a lot of
theaters, studios force them

to do it, but if Gene
Wilder passes away,

a theater wants to run Willy
Wonka, so they go to their

video library at home
and go W, okay they pull

the disc off and just
throw it up there

and I guess that
works, if it looks good

and people show up and are
happy, I guess that's okay,

but for me it shows less effort,

so for me the digital
here if they're using that

to show things that they
just cannot get on film,

then I don't really
have a problem with it.

And if it looks good,
that's the thing too.

If people are coming
from farther away

and paying money
to see something,

they should get the best
presentation possible

and if they're coming that far

and they're seeing a pan
and scan copy of something

and it's advertised as being
the feature for the night,

that's a little cheesy, but--

- I think it helps that
what we're doing on digital

is fucking cool.
- Hey friends,

Henrique Couto here and
I want to tell you about

something I am just
so excited about

and that is the VHS
drive-in, you heard me right,

two of your favorite retro
things, VHS and the drive-in

are coming together at
Mahoning, Pennsylvania

at the Mahoning Drive-In.

- It's almost like beyond
retro to call the studio

and be like we're not even
gonna play it on film,

we're gonna play a VHS
tape at a VHS-themed event

that we're gonna
sell VHS tapes in.

It's just like beyond you know.

- They'd be like what?
- They'd be like hold on.

- What?
- You want to pay us

money to do that?
- Oh, you're crazy okay.

(laughs)

- Jeff made it very clear
that this is an enhancer.

This is something that will
allow us to show things

that we couldn't play on
35mm for whatever reason.

- The digital is

not a betrayal in
anyway, it's not like

oh it's a Dillon Goes Electric
or something like that.

First time I saw Hateful
Eight was on digital

and it looked great, it
didn't look 70mm great,

but it looked great

and in fact I have since
seen twice on proper 70mm

and at the Museum
at the Moving Image

there was either something
wrong with the print,

it was something
wrong with the print

and the focus was
going in and out

I'm not sure what it
would I think that

there's some sort of
warping of the print

that might have happened
because I can't imagine

how it wouldn't have
spilled over into

we saw a double bill
that day, The Wild Bunch

and The Hateful Eight and
it was me and another guy

named Rob who comes here,
he has an orange Prius

and that was a really
cool day trip to New York.

- We thank you guys so much,
2016 Mahoning Drive-in Theater.

Ah, the memories, bask in it.

(laughs)

- [Jeff] Isn't he a
trip, isn't he a trip?

- I'm gonna miss
seeing everybody every
single week for sure

some of these people are
her every single weekend

to hang out.
- It was magical.

Oh no.

Oh my brother.

I would call these
people family, I mean
we sleep together,

not in that way, when
you share a cement floor

next to two other men
on air mattresses,

stuff gets pretty real. (laughs)

- How do I look?

Do I look like a disco queen?

I guess it's all of it,
it's all good all the time,

I like being here, it's a
job where I actually feel

like I make a kind of a
difference in the world.

I always have a good time,
I always look forward to it.

I'm here every weekend.

I never call off or anything.

Yeah, just like being here.

I don't know I mean I always
feel like you come out here,

you always come
out here at a time

when I have nothing
to say. (laughs)

(calm electronic music)

- Every week we did
a little bit better,

and a little bit better,
finally the rollercoaster,

the up and down was
gone, it started to climb

on a gradual increase, I
thought wow, this is actually

going to work, it looks
like this is going to be

a viable thing for the
future and it's been working.

Make sure that the
sprockets are fitting right

over the sprocket
holes, they fit in

so that the gates close even,
otherwise you can damage

a lot of film so you
always check to make sure

that they're seeded
properly in the sprockets.

Ladies and gentleman, for
one more time this year,

good evening and welcome to
the Mahoning Drive-In Theater,

one of the largest and
oldest drive-ins with one

of the largest screens
left in the United States.

We're certainly glad you
could be with us this evening,

especially on our very last
night of the 2016 season.

(calm electronic music)

- This community experience
of all of us getting together

who like zombie movies,
horror movies, sci-fi movies,

dinosaur movies and
we all get to hang out

and you know shoot the shit.

It brings people together.

(calm electronic music)

Some of us just being on the
computer and typing online

about how much we
like something,

we could actually talk in person
again, like it used to be.

- And you are literally
going back in time,

a time capsule and you
aren't where you live

and you aren't where you grew up

and you know you aren't
where your problems are,

it's somewhere else,
it's a free place

and this is an enjoyable
escape, I think for everyone,

I think that's why everyone
comes back and stays here.

It's a place to be yourself
and it's a place to escape

lame things (laughs) that yeah

I mean my personal life
is all over the place,

especially this weekend this
was a real crazy weekend

for me, I almost didn't
come, but I had to,

the last weekend, there's
no way I couldn't.

- That's why I do it, I mean
I don't sleep on that floor

just to be up there and
I love drive-ins I do,

but it's the people
and I go there

to be around those people.

(calm electronic music)

- But here we are, last night,
last night of the season

and I miss it already, every
weekend was an adventure,

every weekend was
something different.

- It's the shit.
- It's the shit.

(laughs)

- I feel like sometimes
I'm a daughter to him

and I feel like that's how he
views me, which is really nice

because I absolutely adore
him, he'll reach out to me

on holidays and stuff or
I'll reach out to him.

He's just a great guy
and he's super sweet.

- I'm just glad she's
hanging in there.

Every year she says
she wants to come back

and I think that's
great, I love her.

- Thank goodness it's
a beautiful night.

Look at those clouds,
man it's gorgeous

and it's comfortable, last
night we were freezing.

Tonight it's beautiful.

This is the way to end a season,

if you have to end it
and unfortunately we do,

this is the kind of night
you want to end it on.

♪ I heard a corny old
letter song on the radio ♪

♪ A while back I hadn't
heard one in so long ♪

♪ But I wanted to laugh

- This is how I wanted to
break the news to everybody

here at the theater, but
we had our T-shirt guy

work on the newest
edition, the onesies,

which is also gonna
be my newest edition,

the newest edition to the
theater, December 1st,

we're expecting, it's a
blessing and one of those things

that like I said
growing up at a drive-in

is something I always
wish for my kid

the idea of trying
to pass that on to

the next generation and
it's about to happen man

you know what I mean, I'm
gonna be a proud poppa,

proud drive-in poppa.

- I have to get a
kick shot of that sky

as I'm sure you can well
appreciate, how are you?

I've made friends here
that I've already been able

to see outside of working
hours and you know

it's yeah I'm kind of I
guess I'm a little bit

without words, a
little bit speechless,

maybe that's more meaningful
than anything I could say.

♪ I was holding back
the tear drops ♪

♪ When the record stopped

♪ And the last laugh on me

♪ For you see it had
turned back the clock ♪

♪ And momma was rocking
to sleep again ♪

♪ While daddy, daddy
held the farm ♪

♪ And it sounded very much
like this old letter song ♪

- [Announcer] We hope
you had a wonderful time.

Come back soon.