'If This Walk Could Talk' Documentary Featuring Senior Walk Now on YouTube

Photo by Chieko Hara

The newly released documentary, If This Walk Could Talk, about the unique history and significance of the Senior Walk tradition at the U of A, is now available for free on YouTube. 

The film shares personal reflections, many pulled from historic documents, yearbooks and film clips, about the U of A from students, faculty, staff, alumni and campus leaders over the past 150 years. 

Produced and directed by Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker Larry Foley, chair of the School of Journalism and Strategic Media, If This Walk Could Talk required more than a year collecting interviews and combing through 150 years of historic accounts to provide a sample of some of the personal stories and  memorable events in the university’s history.

Foley, Interim Chancellor Charles Robinson and Mark Power, vice chancellor for advancement, helped introduce the film at a premiere event held Feb. 10 at the Faulkner Performing Arts Center. Their comments and the film itself are available free on the university’s YouTube channel. 

Foley, a 1976 journalism graduate of the U of A, worked with University Relations to develop the film. Fellow alumni John Cooper and Ben Goodwin, Ashley Acord and Brian Petty provided the bulk of the production, videography and editing for the documentary.  

For more information about the university’s sesquicentennial events, visit 150.uark.edu. 

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