Silver Dollar City to unveil film about the park’s ‘history and lore’
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BRANSON NEWS: Buy PhotoSilver Dollar City has made a documentary film
titled “Jack and Pete Tell It All.” Peter Herschend, co-founder of the theme park, right, talks with, from left, Lloyd Lewallen and his wife, Rhonda, and Heather Stewart, at Silver Dollar City’s 50th Birthday celebration Saturday, May 1, 2010. Lloyd Lewallen worked at Silver Dollar City from the beginning, and remembers putting bumper stickers on cars for $2 a day.(Photo: News-Leader file photo)Buy PhotoAt the Branson IMAX Entertainment Complex Monday, Silver Dollar City will unveil a new documentary film devoted to the “lore and history” of the Branson-area theme park and its founding family, the Herschends.It is simply titled “Jack and Pete Tell It All,” referring to the park’s now-retired founders, Jack and Peter Herschend. Buy PhotoJack Herschend, co-founder of Silver Dollar City, signs hard hats for Branson Fire Chief Ted Martin, center, and Ron Baker with the Firefighters Association of Missouri on Monday, January 21, 2015. (Photo: News-Leader file photo) Jonn Herschend, a son of Pete Herschend, is the filmmaker. He now lives and works in San Francisco, but he said last year he made a trip back to the Ozarks to shoot video interviews with family members who brought the 1880s-style park to life in 1960.”Within the family,” the filmmaking Herschend told the News-Leader, “we’ve been talking for some time” — 15 years — “about doing a video, a documentation of the early days, to get an oral history.”Despite the movie’s title, Herschend said its focus includes Pete and Jack’s spouses, JoDee and Sherry, respectively, along with others connected to Silver Dollar City whose memories stretch back six decades.The filmmaker was quick to add, “I should say that Jack and Pete and Sherry and JoDee were out of the picture on this.”Why?”The last thing they’d want to do is be …
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