[WCVB Chronicle story--Movie Queen]

Date2001

Can DescriptionsNews. Story on Margaret Cram and the Movie Queen films. Interviews with Dr. John Bruner and Roy Johnson of the Groton Historical Society, and Andrea McCarty, Don Radovich and David Weiss of Northeast Historic Film. Story uses footage from Movie Queen films in NHF Collection and Bucksport Movie Queen 2000. Includes new footage showing the making of Bucksport Movie Queen 2000 in spring of 2000. Aired April 3, 2001. ONSITE REFERENCE ONLY. CU 16mm viewer, Groton, Massachusetts. VO, Jack Bruner, tells plot. Cut to Bruner and Roy Johnson with 16mm reel. Roy Johnson VO, bicycle scene from Movie Queen Groton. Movie Queen sponsored by American Legion. Lubec, Newport, Lincoln, Middlebury scenes. Penobscot River. Exterior of Alamo Theatre. 16mm viewer. Bucksport Movie Queen 2000, production shots. Don Radovich. Andrea McCarty yelling 'faster! faster!'. Chronicle's manufactured titles. Dan Gottlieb with 16mm camera. David Weiss with the key to the town of Bucksport. Describes Margaret Cram as a complete mystery. Bruner, on camera, says she was born around 1910. Roy Johnson. Title: 'What happened to Margaret Cram Showalter?'