North Carolina State Fair, c. 1972-1974 [MPF.122.6]

From the collections of the State Archives of North Carolina. Color motion picture film; Optical sound; 16mm; 25 minutes. Film opens at the North Carolina Agriculture Building; barker with top hat; people in line for tickets; scenes following one family throughout; fair scenes; important people getting onto Ferris Wheel; nighttime scenes; Bob Hope and a beauty queen; Hope meets the family's little girl; barker again; end credits. The Century Film Productions "North Carolina State Fair" series contains raw film and soundtrack elements, workprints, and final prints of the short promotional film about the annual state fair in Raleigh, North Carolina. The film includes brief highlights from years past, but mainly follows one family throughout their day at the fair. Several of these film elements received conservation treatments and were copied as part of a 2014 National Film Preservation Foundation Grant, which resulted in the creation of a preservation mag track, a preservation color internegative, a preservation positive optical track, a preservation negative optical track, and a New Answer Print. The NFPF Grant funding was secured largely due to the efforts of film historian and archivist Melissa Dollman, who processed the Century Film Collection and worked with Dr. Devin Orgeron’s film studies class at NC State University to research the studio and the work of the owner and filmmaker O. B. Garris.