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1909–2026 · tested
The moving-picture class fails the same way, on the same evidence, one generation later. No movie theatre seated in North Liberty appears in the cinema directories and theatre databases searched (Cinema Treasures' Indiana listings carry no North Liberty house), in the Sanborn run, or in local listings at any date; the town's filmgoers in the picture era went, in the documented pattern of the whole township, to Walkerton, Plymouth and above all South Bend — the same twelve-mile pull the bars leg records for nightlife. The drive-in test is a pointer negative in the floor's exact form: no drive-in screen ever stood in North Liberty; the county's drive-in ground was South Bend's and Mishawaka's, and this township's contribution to the drive-in era was its audience and its farm roads home. No seat count, opening night or marquee name exists to print for a North Liberty house, and the leg prints that absence without dressing it: the palace course, the sound pioneer, the neighborhood house — none of these tests arises, because there was never a house.