On the Road: The Aut-O-Rama Twin Drive-In Theatre

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Furious 7 may boast an $190 million budget and a billion dollars in worldwide box office receipts, but it’s still essentially a drive-in B-movie sold on car chases and girls, fistfights and explosions. In other words, Furious 7 was the perfect film to experience at North Ridgeville, Ohio’s Aut-O-Rama Twin Drive-In Theatre – an outdoor movie palace whose mammoth second screen looms over a highway dotted with red tail lights receding into the summer night.

Dating back to 1965, the theatre is in the midst of its 50th season – all under the ownership of the same family. Located near Cleveland, Ohio, the Aut-O-Rama plays two sets of double-features every night of the week during the drive-in season of Memorial Day-to-Labor Day.

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On the Road: See Chewbacca’s head and Walter White’s underwear at the Museum of the Moving Image

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The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York contains more than 1,400 artifacts from the history of motion pictures – everything from silent film-era cameras to Star Trek happy meal boxes. (continue reading)

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