I am presently working round the clock on the treatment, rough cut, and narration script of my current project, a documentary on the history of my church congregation. It is a fascinating history spanning the late days of the American frontier, Kansas City in its boomtown days, the entire modern era, and the present.
I just wrote this line in the treatment and thought I should share it with the world, considering that it probably won’t make it into the film in any form:
Scene: Reenactment In 1897 on the Jesse Barlow farm in Lisle, MO, wife Emily goes to draw water at the family well down by the railroad tracks. As she is executing her chore, she finds a newspaper called The Gospel Trumpet, a publication started in 1881 to promote the principles of D.S. Warner's brand new Church of God. She reads it and is pursuaded of its merits.
[A prominent KC Historian] describes how this is as American as apple pie, baseball, and coochie shots of celebrities.
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