Pete (1980)

Narrated by Phil Harris a longtime friend of Fountains Pete uses performance film interviews behindthescenes footage and a home videos to offer an intimate portrait of Fountain the walking talking embodiment of his hometown Produced and directed by by John Beyer the film originally aired on PBS stations nationwide When it aired locally as part of a PBS membership drive Pete was credited with raising more than had ever been raised by a single program in the history of WYES according to a story published in The TimesPicayune in August 1980