Florida City

...to any kind of media available to the viewing public at large. This movie was filmed several years back in the tiny "ghost town" of Center Hill in Central Florida and used many of the town's residents as their extras. Everyone from miles around the rural locale came out to line the streets and watch the filming of this movie. The kids got a first hand experience in how movies were made and we all had fun watching the "silent" parade come through town!! Seeing the abandoned Main Street come alive and the stores "restored" to how they must have actually looked back in the 1940's brought an eerie quality to the town. For several years some of the set dressings left behind remained in place in the windows of the empty stores and many pictures were taken of Market Street. I kept in touch with several of the people who worked on this movie throughout the years but unfortunately, as I understood it, the movie was never bought by a major company so I never got to see it.

The kids who were extras are now young adults and older teens, and the town of Center Hill remains as it was when used in the film...a ghost town...