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Justin Ridd, left, Janine Turnhout and Kevin Turnhout parked up for a movie night in a 1963 Ford Galaxie.
There was no canoodling at the drive in movies held at car park of the Newfield Tavern last weekend.
In fact, Southlanders were on their best behaviour, event organiser and South Alive community development and operations manager Courtney Ellison said.
“We had a great couple of nights,” Ellison said.
Held over April 28 and 29, the car park rear of Newfield Taven was packed on both nights to movie-goers coming for a bit of nostalgia or a new experience.
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Ellison said Saturday’s family night, which featured Sing 2, had a total of 75 cars park up compared to Friday night’s 28 cars, which featured the remade NZ film Pork Pie.
“We had lots of people along both nights, and lots of really positive feedback from everyone, and everyone’s really excited and wants us to run it again as soon as possible.”
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Ellison said everyone had a great couple of nights and were very well-behaved.
After being postponed for two years due to weather and Covid, Alive South is “super grateful” to have pulled the event off.
Alive South are keen to run the drive-in movies again and make it an annual event, but Ellison said they would have to apply for some more funding.
The event didn’t feature any wandering hands, rather everyone was “well-behaved” and contributed to a “really good” family and community environment, she said.
