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Ohio documentary debuts at drive-in

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Here’s a great example of community support. Local business leaders bankrolled a local documentary highlighting just how great it is to be in Shelby County OH. And the World Premiere of that documentary will be October 15-16 at the Auto Vue Drive-In in Sidney OH.

The Gateway Arts Council of Sidney is the driving force behind Moving A Nation: Made in Shelby County, produced and directed by Columbus documentary filmmaker John Ondo. According to the Sidney Daily News, the film is inspired by “the courtsquare sculpture by George Danhires that commemorates industry.”

In the story announcing the premiere date, the Daily News wrote that the finished product “is a tribute to the rich and inspiring story of Shelby County industry and its essential role in the county’s past, present and future.” Even the Sidney Civic Band was enlisted to provide some of the music for the film.

It’s great to see an intersection of civic pride and the local drive-in, considering that a lot of the appeal of the first drive-ins was to blue-collar workers who didn’t want to dress up for an indoor movie. I hope that lots of locals turn out to see themselves on the really big screen.

Project Drive-In roundup 4: The list that wouldn’t die

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In the third installment of our roundup of candidates for Honda’s Project Drive-In, I predicted that Honda would choose more than five lucky recipients of digital projectors. What I really didn’t anticipate was that Honda would reopen voting for the second set of winners.

With another round of voting comes another round of candidates that we haven’t mentioned so far, along with some (marked with an asterisk) who saw new stories about them after voting was extended. If you’re reading this, you’re already online, so go vote for your favorite!

* This drive-in was in a previous roundup, but a new story has been published about it after Honda extended voting for Project Drive-In.

Project Drive-In roundup 3: Dark of the screen

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I warned you that it might come to this. With less than a week left in Honda’s Project Drive-In voting period, I’ve found media reports about a few more of the candidates.

Here’s something confusing: Some of those media reports only partially duplicate other reports. That is, if a new story lists drive-ins A, B, and C, but a story from one of my first two round-ups already mentioned A and C, then I’ve added B as a new candidate in this third round-up. If you click through to the story, it’ll mention all three, but we know that B is the only one that’s new to this list. Okay?

With that in mind, let’s go through a few more:

And that should hold us on Project Drive-In news until they start talking about winners. Wouldn’t it be nice if Honda chose more than five?