| Susan's Dragon | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1946 |
| Catalog #: | 371234 | |
| Clip Number: | 371234-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | FFS-AA1039 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Berrien Springs, MI | |
| Year Shot: | 1954 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/FICTION FILMS: Melodrama | |
| Description: | A religious film for TV telling the story of a girl whose father is cured of a drinking problem through prayer. The first of a planned series, the financial backer of this project moved it to a different area, and this is the only one produced here. So it goes. (This is an edited print: titles and credits have been removed as well as some scenes unimportant to the story). Fade in on a young girl, Susan, awakening in her bedroom. She starts to get dressed as her mother calls to her. Mother is preparing breakfast in the kitchen. Before they eat Susan says a prayer and remembers her Daddy is missing. Mother explains he is missing, but does not elaborate. Susan cries. Mother says he might be here when she comes home from school. Susan is encouraged. Mother, alone at her ironing board, is despondent. Susie comes home from school but her Daddy is still missing. Mother decides to tell Susan that her father is sick. She says a dragon named liquor has taken her Daddy away. Susan goes uptown and a police officer tells her where the Bureau of Missing Persons is. Traffic gets held up while the cop steers her to the office. A kindly stranger turns out to be newspaper reporter and he guides Susan to the Bureau. She enters. FO/FI on her coming out the door. She cries in the hallway. The reporter consoles her and offers to take her picture and publish it in a story for the paper. Susie goes home and her mother is sick. She asks Susan to go to the store for her. She runs uptown and gets hit by a car. They take her to the hospital. The newspaper publishes a picture of her in the hospital and describe her family problems. Susan awakens in the hospital and --lo! her father is there! He saw her in the paper, ran home to take care of the mother and is back with Susan and all is well again. | |
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