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By Mary Beth Martin
Rappahannock New Staff Writer
Do you ever wonder what cats do when no one is watching them? Some local children took part in a film to educate people about that very thing.
Argo Films, a Washington, D.C. based production company, was busy shooting “The Secret Life of Cats,” on Oct. 7,8 and 9 in Sperryville. The film financed by National Geographic may be renamed when it is released on PBS television in September 1998, said Emmy-award-winning Allison Argo, the film’s developer, writer and director. She said the 60minute film will be a celebration of how wonderful cats are and how they are “hot-wired” to hunt. * Several Rappahannock children were chosen to act in the film: Devin Sherwood, 9, Keenan Sherwood, 6, Windham Lucking, 9, Tiana Lucking, 7, and Hannah Morgan, 9, all volunteered their time.
In the film the children find a mother cat and kittens in the hay during a game of hide-and$eek around Roy Pullen’s weathered, 130-year-old bam on Keyser Run Road in Washington. Devin Sherwood, the lead character, runs home io ask his real-life mother, Barbara Sherwood, if he may keep it. Argo said this scene is included in the film as a classic Scenario about how a wild cat is domesticated.
John Van Ness of Sperryville appeared in a scene in a pickup (donated by Phil tmd Susan Drevas of Flint Hill) dropping a litter of kittens by the side of the road. The Van
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