Village Storekeeper

Date1946

Can DescriptionsSilent print. Sound track and complete copy at National Archives. USIA film for outside U.S. using local people. Frank R. Donovan Associates, NY, asked to make the film, to be 'shown to peoples of foreign countries to depict for them just how democracy works at its best--in a small town.' Story is of a young farm lad living on the old Webber homestead at North Waterboro. He falls from a load of hay and breaks his leg. People come help him, Final scene is in the interior of the meeting house when poeple come to attend a service and hear the hero, now recovered, express his thanks. Mrs. Willis Webber opened the homestead to the movie company. Edlder Grey Meeting House, used as church and town hall, was the community center. Rural schools, stores and dwellings used in film. Information from Portland Sunday Telegram, 8 September 1946.