Collection contains “Movie Queen,” a short production about a film star who arrives by train to her home in Newport, Maine. She tours the town and receives gifts from local merchants. The movie queen is kidnapped and then rescued. Scenes include a parade, streets and retail businesses, townspeople, and automobiles. Intertitles are included in the kidnap scene. The footage provides views of street scenes, local businesses, residents, and industry.
Newport Historical Society Collection
Newport Historical Society Collection
Primary Format and Extent:
film (710 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16mm. print
Collection Date Range:
1936
Summary:
Collection contains "Movie Queen," a short production about a film star who arrives by train to her home in Newport, Maine. She tours the town and receives gifts from local merchants. The movie queen is kidnapped and then rescued. Scenes include a parade, streets and retail businesses, townspeople, and automobiles. Intertitles are included in the kidnap scene. The footage provides views of street scenes, local businesses, residents, and industry.
Biographical/Historical Notes:
Newport, Maine, is located west of Bangor in Penobscot County and has a population of 3,000. The Maine Central Railroad passed through the town. Margaret Cram, an independent filmmaker connected with the Boston Amateur Theare Guild, arranged "Movie Queen" events in a still unknown number of towns in the mid-1930s. In each town traveling players helped to put on a stage show, and a film was made with local people. A script of Movie Queen by Lauren K. Woods and associated production documents from the Amateur Theatre Guild may be found in the Marion Angeline Howlett Papers, Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University. WorldCat See also Movie Queen films in these collections: Movie Queen, Bar Harbor Collection (Bar Harbor, Maine), Bath Historical Society (Bath, Maine), Belfast Historical Society Collection (Belfast, Maine), John Bruner Collection (Groton, Mass.), Daniel Lapointe Collection (Van Buren, Maine), Lincoln Memorial Library Collection (Lincoln, Maine), Movie Queen, Lubec Collection (Lubec, Maine), Norwood Historical Society Collection (Norwood, Mass.) Sheldon Museum Collection (Middlebury, Vermont).
cPeople and Organizations:
Subject(s):
Automobiles, Business Enterprises, Cities and towns
Repository:
Northeast Historic Film
Availabilty:
Access is restricted; consult repository for detail.
Condition Governing Reproduction and Use:
Authorization to reuse and/or reproduce must be obtained from Northeast Historic Film. See http://oldfilm.org/content/stock-footage-licensing for more information.
Source URL:
http://oldfilm.org/collection/Detail/collections/255