Jimmy Carter Library takes visitors on tour through Georgia’s film industry

“Georgia On My Screen: Jimmy Carter and the Rise of the Film Industry” is on view at the Carter Library now through December 31.

Myke Johns

The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum is taking visitors from Burt Reynolds to Black Panther with their exhibit: Georgia On My Screen.

The installation features dozens of props, costume pieces, puppets, and awards from over four decades of film and television made here, and leads visitors from the founding of the Georgia Film and Television Commission through the present day.

Carter Library’s registrar Carla Ledgerwood spent over a year researching and assembling the exhibit, both from the Library’s own archives and by reaching out to the studios that have worked here.