The city has been portrayed in motion pictures at least twice. Once scenes for a promotional film for the Soo Line and The Canadian Pacific Railway were shot in Carrington. Actors were brought in to film an elopement sequence. The bride and groom were filmed escaping from a second story window of the C. H. Davidson house on Main Street and fleeing by horse and buggy to the Soo station to arrive there just in time to catch the Soo Flyer on its way to western Canada.
In late June 1916 an announcement in the Independent to the effect that June 26 was to be "Movie Day": "The town should be packed to see how motion pictures are made." There is no indication as to who was to make the pictures. It is suspected, however, that it was Holmboe of Bismarck, who was making similar films of other North Dakota cities at the time.
The sun shone on Movie Day but the crowds were disappointingly small since the muddy roads caused by. recent rains had made traveling into town difficult or impossible.
The films were shown on August 15, 1916. The Independent reports: "Home movies at the Grand filled the playhouse three times. The pictures were better than many expected although the company would have made a more popular set, we believe, if they had taken more close-ups of local people. It was buildings the film showed clearly, but the people were so small as not to be recognized. It was the close-up pictures of the people we know that would have made it a bigger hit." It is believed that this film or some parts of it are in the collections of the State Historical Society.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 423