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For Sale Please contact us at info@travelfilmcompany.com for international sales and rentals Press Associated Press story on The Park Inn Hotel Article on the film's opening in Mason City, Iowa, on the front page of the Globe-Gazette. NPR article on the Park Inn Hotel Credits The Last Wright IMDB page
| - Iowa Motion Picture Association EMMY NOMINEE - Writing 2010 "An emotionally powerful argument for sustainability - a manageable, respectful harmony with the world we've built and borrowed."The Washington Post "Visually stunning and smartly filmic." WLUW, Chicago In 1908, when Frank Lloyd Wright was considered the most innovative architect in Chicago, he traveled to Mason City, Iowa, to design a unique, mixed-use city block—a bank and an adjoining hotel facing a park. Soon scandal and tragedy would ruin his career, but the Park Inn Hotel would remain -- one of his last Prairie style structures. Through rare archival footage, period music and a look at stunning Wright masterpieces, this film offers a provocative, ironic tapestry of an American century, tracing the life, death and rebirth of a Midwest downtown through the prism of The Park Inn. During the20th century, The Park Inn faced alterations and degradation while Mason City dealt with a Dillinger Bank robbery in the 1930s, an economic downturn in the1960s and the label “Porn City” in the 1970s. In an effort to promote heritage tourism, the city struggled to fund renovations of The Park Inn in the 1990s and attempted an economic revival with a $20 million tribute to the musical comedy, “The Music Man,” based on Meredith Willson’s boyhood in Mason City.Directed by Lucille Carra and produced by Lucille Carra and Garry McGee. Directed by Lucille Carra |
