The radio show “On the Media” had a great story Saturday. It was about a guy who made movies using ordinary people who wanted to be in the movies. He had only one script, and for 40 years, in small towns across America, he rounded up locals who thought they had the next Shirley Temple in their midst and shot The Kidnapper’s Foil.
As soon as his newest cast dealt with the kidnappers, the film launched into a talent show. And that was as close as any small-town girl got to being the next Shirley Temple.
From the radio show: “The practice of itinerant filmmaking — traveling from town to town, charging a fee for residents to become the stars of a film — mostly died out in the early 50’s. But one man continued the practice for nearly 40 years, filming the same movie over and over again. [Brooke Gladstone] talks to Caroline Frick, Executive Director of the The Texas Archive of the Moving Image about her decade-long fixation on filmmaker Melton Barker and his oft-filmed movie The Kidnapper’s Foil.”
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