Johnstown in the Movies
Sources:
* The People of Cambria County, by Dave Huber, 2003
** "Johnstown on the Big Screen" by Mike Mastovich, Johnstown Magazine, May 2007, page 21
Slapshot was released in 1977 and starred Paul Newman who led his failing minor league hockey team to success.*
All the Right Moves was released in 1983 and starred Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, and Lea Thompson. The story depicted a high school football player growing up in a steel town and his ambitions to obtain a college scholarship.*
Academy Award® winning movie, The Johnstown Flood, was commissioned by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association to celebrate the opening of the Flood Museum in 1989. It is the only museum-commissioned documentary that has won an Academy Award® in the short subject documentary category.**
In 2003, a new documentary "Johnstown Flood," was created, as a part of the PBS series American Experience. The film was narrated by actor Richard Dreyfuss.**
The film shown at the Johnstown Flood National Memorial entitled Black Friday was produced by the National Park Service. Parts of the movie were filmed at Harper’s Ferry Center in West Virginia while most footage was taken from a 1926 silent movie, The Johnstown Flood.**
The animated short from 1946, Mighty Mouse and The Johnstown Flood, features our rodent hero using super-hypnosis to turn back time and "save the day."**
