Jerry Caravana - Crown Point History through Film

Crown Point 1937-38.  A rare 16mm film was found and restored to show an hour and half of film of Crown Point residents, schools, and businesses.  The restored film is remarkably clear.  The film was made by an Ohio firm as a fund raising project for the Tri-Kappa Sorority. The movie was filmed just 3 years after the escape of John Dillinger and 3 years before America’s entrance into World War II.  The printed program names hundreds of CP residents and business and will be copied for you to read.  When the film was restored a sound tract was added with some period music and narration.  When people were photographed they were told to “move” instead of standing perfectly still.  There were no televisions, no home movies and people had never viewed themselves in a moving picture.