Atlanta: The Rest of the Story

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Born into a broadcasting family in the  black & white days of the 1950’s, early on Lance Russell charted a course to follow in the family business. His first professional media job came to him before he graduated high school and was followed by a decade and a half working in the field of broadcast television.

In the early 1980s, he left broadcasting, picked up a film camera and for the next 3-decades produced and directed television commercials, network promotions, corporate communications and, adjusting to the changing times, web videos.

Along the way, he acquired an interest in Atlanta’s history, fueled, in part, by a 6-year stint producing videos for the Atlanta Regional Commission. All of this inspired him to launch the YouTube history channel...Stories of Atlanta.

The channel looks at the City of Atlanta not through the eyes of a historian but through the eyes of a filmmaker. “It’s the stories,” he says, “that captured my attention. The story of Atlanta is a story of Iron and Ambition...railroads gave rise to Atlanta; its people made it soar.”

Over the last decade, Lance has assembled more than 250 videos about Atlanta’s history, stories that not only recount the events of the city’s past but stories that reveal the personalities, imagination, and determination of the people who took a railroad stop in the middle of nowhere and turned it into a metropolis.