A film crew descended on the town Monday, capturing shots of the Kings Mountain Historical Museums campus and conducting interviews with its director Adria Focht, playwright Bob Inman, Mayor Rick Murphrey and others in town.
The reason for the visit? WTVI, Charlottes N.C. public television station, is creating a short promotional video about the museum that will air during the stations airing of Carolina Impact. It will vie with spots about two other non-profit organizations for a chance to win $10,000. The video profile will provide exposure on to audiences across WTVI’s 13-county viewing region.
Kings Mountain residents can help KMHMs video win the competition by casting a vote at www.PBSCharlotte.org from April 21 through May 5. The spot will air at 7 p.m. April 21, but will be viewable online following that.
According to Focht, the museum she heads is one of three finalists along with the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation and the Allegro Foundation in WTVIs Community Give Back non-profit spotlight contest.
If chosen by the viewers, the museum could receive $10,000 in free underwriting on PBS Charlotte as part of the Community Give Back nonprofit spotlight contest. This promotional support would go beyond the museum’s current resources for advertising and marketing.
Along with the opportunity to win this money Focht says the museum will be able to use the video profile to highlight the community partnership project centered around Liberty Mountain,” the Revolutionary War drama by author and playwright Bob Inman and presented by the Kings Mountain Little Theatre.
By lunchtime Monday, the film crew was busy staging shots of volunteer re-enactors in period dress doing a variety of activities such as spinning fabric and talking about the life of a 18th century hunter. The stage was replete with a handful of city employees posing as visitors to the citys popular museum as the cameras and a videographer sought to capture great footage for the video WTVI is putting together.
Later in the afternoon, the crew traveled to City Hall to get shots of two murals that hang there and to hear Mayor Murphrey speak about the economic impact of Inmans Liberty Mountain: The Revolutionary Drama as well as the importance to the City of having these cultural attractions in its historic buildings.
Museum President Susan Champion said the Museum is partnering with cultural non-profits Southern Arts Society and Kings Mountain Little Theatre to create a community-wide effort to better promote cultural institutions. With cooperation and assistance from the Mauney Memorial Library, the City of Kings Mountain, the Kings Mountain Main Street Program, and the Chamber of Commerce, the goal is to use the promotion of local cultural groups to enhance Kings Mountain’s image as a destination for tourism. This effort has been developed under the auspices of the Main Street Programs Organization Committee and is closely associated with revitalization efforts in downtown Kings Mountain.
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