The Film

Bo Legs

Marvin Arrington, Sr., An Atlanta Story

A life in motion. A city transformed. The documentary that became the soundtrack to Old Atlanta.

Bo Legs: Marvin Arrington, Sr., An Atlanta Story documentary poster
Official documentary artwork

The documentary

The film that put Atlanta in motion.

Bo Legs follows Marvin Arrington, Sr. through a life inseparable from Atlanta's civic, cultural and political transformation.

The documentary moves through leadership, family, public service and a city remaking itself. Its soundtrack opened another route into that history: artists across Atlanta answering the same story in their own voices.

That connection became Old Atlanta, a release family built around memory, movement and the city behind the music.

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The soundtrack

One film. A city of voices.

Move from the documentary into the original record, the remixes, the artists and the screening path.

Bo Legs: Marvin Arrington, Sr., An Atlanta Story poster
The documentary

Bo Legs. An Atlanta story.

The film behind the music: Marvin Arrington, Sr., An Atlanta Story.

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Atlanta archive

The city is part of the cast.

Transit, streets, stadiums and gathering places hold the public memory behind the film and the records.

Atlanta airport terminal and parked cars in 1961
Airport terminal, 1961
Busy Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta in 1965
Forsyth Street, 1965
Downtown Atlanta during the 1996 Olympic Games
Olympic Atlanta, 1996

City memory

Atlanta redraws the map.

The Film's civic story reaches beyond one biography. These public sources open the neighborhoods, leaders and eras moving through Old Atlanta.

Your part of the archive

What do you remember?

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