For Release: 2008-08-04 13:22:00
With a genial and offbeat style, Falls City chronicles the development, engineering, financing and final coat of paint on the Falls Fountain, which briefly graced the Ohio River at Louisville in the late 1980s and early ’90s. The program airs Monday, Aug. 18 at 9/8 p.m. CT and Sunday, Aug. 24 at 3/2 p.m. CT on KET2.Produced in 1995, the documentary follows the life of the Falls Fountain, which was donated to the city of Louisville in 1988 by the Bingham Foundation and promoted to equal the majesty of the St. Louis Arch. It was removed after years of recurring problems.
“Viewing the program some 15 years after I finished it, I’m pleased that it seems like an interesting time capsule,” said producer Morgan Atkinson of Louisville. “It says a lot about Louisville then and where we are now. Louisville’s downtown has made remarkable progress and there’s a lot more in the pipeline.”
While a fountain now resting somewhere in a junkyard might seem an unlikely subject for a documentary, the program provides more than just surface material. Along the way, it touches on everything from shopping malls and college football to downtown renewal, highways and bridges.
“I undertook the project because whenever I interviewed people for whatever project I was working on the subject of the fountain always seemed to come up — and people had very strong opinions about it, usually negative,” says Atkinson. “I think today the fountain still rests in a scrap metal yard after being auctioned off for less than $15,000.”
Falls City is produced by is produced by Duckworks, Inc./Louisville. More information about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.
Contact: Ellen Soileau
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