Melton Barker and the Kidnappers Foil

From the late 1930s into the early 1970s, Dallas native, Melton Barker and his company, Melton Barker Juvenile Productions, traveled all over the country – from Texas and New Mexico to North Carolina and Indiana – filming local children acting, singing, and dancing in two-reel films that Barker titled The Kidnapper’s Foil.

This website was designed to track Barkers travels, look at his life and attempt to uncover new films.