![]() It’s also not often that celebrated European filmmakers shoot in the Green Mountains. So if you want your favorite small-town screen to stick around, now’s the time to be generous. Montpelier’s Savoy Theater has sent numerous appeals to its membership list, and Waitsfield’s Big Picture Theater & Café is still taking donations in the wake of its successful Kickstarter campaign. “Friends, our back is against the wall,” writes Bill Shafer, owner of Middlebury’s 74-year-old Marquis Theatre, on his website. Meanwhile, Vermont’s indoor theaters have already undergone digital conversion, but some smaller ones are still appealing to the public to help them meet the costs. You can also vote once per day for Colchester’s Sunset Drive-In or Bethel’s Randall Drive-In at. With the deadline looming - Hollywood studios will ship their last 35-millimeter film prints this year - the Fairlee isn’t the only Vermont drive-in angling for that prize. In a last-ditch effort, Trapp has entered the Fairlee in a Honda-sponsored contest called Project Drive-In the auto company will donate new digital systems to five drive-in theaters chosen by popular vote. In the piece published on August 14, reporter Kim Gittleson quotes Trapp as saying he and his family have raised about $15,500 for the conversion, and if they can’t close the gap by the end of the summer, it will “very likely” be the six-decade-old drive-in’s last. ![]() Now BBC News has made that drive-in and its owner, Peter Trapp, the centerpiece of a story called “Last Reel: The Death of the Drive-In Cinema?” ![]() ![]() Last summer, Seven Days reported on the Fairlee Drive-In’s quest to raise more than $70,000 for its conversion to digital projection. It’s not often that Vermont fundraising appeals are heard in Europe. ![]()
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