{"id":2917,"date":"2020-06-12T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jem.utk.edu\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:46:15","slug":"magic-of-the-library-that-dolly-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cci.utk.edu\/jem\/2020\/06\/12\/magic-of-the-library-that-dolly-built\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic of ‘The Library That Dolly Built’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Working at the Library of Congress in February 2018, the students on the Land Grant Films team began to understand that their project\u2014a documentary about Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library, tied to the milestone of Parton\u2019s giving away her 100 millionth book\u2014was a much bigger deal than they had realized.<\/p>\n

<\/span>\u201cWe were there getting our press passes,\u201d remembers Kayli Martin (\u201921), the film\u2019s assistant producer. \u201cI thought, \u2018This is what it\u2019s like to be a professional journalist.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had never been to the Library of Congress,\u201d says Abby Bower (\u201919), a producer and the writer for the project. \u201cThe building, number one, is huge and impressive and beautiful. Number two, we were treated like a professional media outlet. As a student setting up for an interview in the Library of Congress, with outlets like ABC and NPR around us, it was a totally mind-boggling moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got to shoot everything,\u201d says Brock Zych (\u201918), who served as director of photography. \u201cWe had free rein to go wherever we wanted in the Library of Congress building. I was running around all day. The folks from ABC and NBC, they were restricted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continue to torchbearer.utk.edu<\/a>\u00a0for the full story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n