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Hard work pays off for The Feedman Roving photographer The Feedman spins a tale of multiple trips to Henry County and heavy detective work in search of the Kentucky scene made famous in a 2008 Superbowl ad. By: The Feedman I had been searching for this barn for over two years and this was my third trip into the Henry County area specifically to try to find it. If it looks slightly familiar to you, it should. The barn was featured in the 2008 Marine Corps recruiting campaign. The ad was run during the Super Bowl and had the Marine Silent Drill Platoon twirling their rifles with the barn as a back drop. (a you tube video taken during the filming of this in Oct. 2007 is listed next.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-NgzT8xMo0&feature=related I must have watched that video a hundred times trying to pick up on the location of the barn and spent numerous hours google searching the location, coming up with only... taken in the Sligo - Smithfield area. From watching the video I was looking for a dairy barn surrounded by black plank fences with it being used as a horse farm. That accounts for why when I found this barn last winter it did not click it was the one. There were no plank fences, much less a horse farm beside it. A link to the photo taken last winter follows.www.flickr.com/photos/feedman/5307413153/in/photostream/ I started my search at a small gas station in Sligo asking the owner if he remembered when the Marine Commercial was filmed and where it was filmed at. He could not tell me where, but surprise surprise.... he knew the guy who owned the farm and he had been in the store just ten minutes before I arrived. With detailed directions and a phone number (which I refused to use) of the guy who owned the farm I was off to New Castle toward Bethlehem to find it. By the time I got to Bethlehem ( ten to fifteen miles North) I decided must be on the wrong road. Saw a few guys outside a repair shop and asked the name of road I was on........ on the road, I was supposed to be on........ A wild goose chase it seems. Asked this bunch about the barn, "really don't know, but the guy who pulled up will " Went through all the questions as to why I'd want a photo of a barn. He knew the owner of the farm ( Mr. Raymer ) I was looking for and told me it was filmed on Mr. Raymer's son's farm. Armed with new directions and a hand drawn map I was off to the Smithfield area ( 15 miles West ) Coming into Smithfield I saw a farm that had a "Raymer Farms" sign......... looked and looked..... no dairy barn.......... but it did have black plank fences. Next stop was at the restaurant in Smithfield...the waitress I found remembered it well and gave great directions to it... followed her directions past the barn to the four way stop, to the top of the hill and it was not on the right as she told me. Getting desperate... found a nager out cruising the backroads...He wasn't Marine potential! Next up was a guy trimming his shrubs... excellent directions back up the road a couple miles to the site were this photo was taken. Not a doubt in his mind as he was there when it was filmed! ??? Photo shopping a commercial, put up a fence just for the filming and then disassembled, oh well this was it... let it be! Started toward home and then it all clicked... The commercial was shot at several different locations in the Smithfield, Sligo area! Turned around and went back...They used both of the Raymer farms and the horse farm that was across from one of them! Found a short article by Bryon Crawford that covers this better than I.Byron Crawford article on the subject at the Courier-Journal (Editors Nore: Article is behind a paywall, and only the first few paragraphs are available free.) This story was posted on 2012-03-16 10:04:56
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