At the site of an old and abandoned drive in theater that had not had a movie in decades, "The Last Picture Show" was projected onto a massive inflatable screen in front of a large audience who mostly sat in folding chairs, under the stars on a splendid night, in MARFA, TEXAS.

(see my other photo of this massive inflatable screen being inflated during the day on my Flickr account, "SouthwestUSA" or access it direct through this link, http://www.flickr.com/photos/southwestusa/3502452705/ )

The drive-in was gone (so were the old projectors) but a company from Austin, Texas is able to project outdoor movies ANYWHERE in Texas by using their mobile van, having two massive 35mm film projectors mounted inside the truck.

(I'll post a picture of that truck in another iReport)

I took this picture May 2, 2009 during the Marfa Film Festival. Noted author Larry McMurtry spoke briefly before the film was projected.

Marfa, Texas is the location of where the movies Giant, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood was shot (if not all the scenes, many of the scenes.)

My all-time favorite drive-in theatre was in El Paso and called "The Bordertown Drive In." On the backside of the main screen was a massive mural of a Herford Bull and a B-71 Bomber. The Bordertown was build after WW2 and torn down in the 1970s. The artwork on the screen back was incredible and in itself worth preserving. It was the most majestic drive-in I had ever seen. As a kiddo in the 1950s and early 60s, we would load up our station wagon, drive to the show (just a few blocks from our home) and have the best times of our lives. I mostly played on the merry-go-round, swing set and monkey bars (wow, don't you know personal injury lawers salivate at the thought of a kid falling off a merry-go-round, but not in the 1950s!)

We would sometimes go in our pajamas and fall asleep in the back of the station wagon, only to be lifted out the back at the end of the night by a loving father who then tucked us into bed upon arriving back home. I wouldn't trade that experience for all the iPods in the world.