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The Lambertville Story (1949)

1949 · Ephemeral film · 10 min · dir. Justin Herman

  • Documentary

Synopsis

Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader, is a resident of the town of Libertyville, New Jersey, a quiet community where the farmers, including Mr. Whiteman, raise Black Angus cattle. His story is how the townspeople got to together in a town meeting to find a solution to the helter-skelter activities of the local teen-agers Saturday nights.

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Details

Director
Justin Herman
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Released
1949-05-20
Running time
10 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Prelinger Archives

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★ · It's that easy. · Spuzz · 2016-12-23

Wonderful story about the town of Lambertville, and the shock to the system they got when an accident involving town youth happens. Those kids have too much time on their hands! So they organize teen dances on the weekends, and everything is hunky dory again. Ahhhhh!

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