Frederick Law Olmsted / Metropolitan Museum of Art and T.W. Timreck in association with WGBH Boston ; produced and directed by T.W Timreck ; written by James Lawson, Charles Beveridge.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Timreck, T. W. (Theodor William), producer, director.

Beveridge, Charles E., screenwriter, consultant.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), producer.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), producer.

Home Vision (Firm), distributor.

Series:

Metropolitan Museum of Art home video collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.

Olmsted, Frederick Law.

Parks--United States--History.

Parks.

United States.

History.

Landscape architecture--United States--History.

Landscape architecture.

Central Park (New York, N.Y.).

Art and architecture videos.

Local Subjects:

Art and architecture videos.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (58 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

Title on label and on container: Frederick Law Olmsted and the public park in America

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : The Museum : T.W. Timreck, [1990 ;] [Chicago, Ill.?] : Home Vision [distributor]

System Details:

VHS.

analog

magnetic

VHS

Summary:

Documents, with dramatization, the work of Olmsted in establishing public parks in America, exemplified by Central Park, 1858. The project was fraught with political, financial, and topographical obstacles, but the completed park illustrates Olmsted's pioneering vision.

Participant:

Young Olmsted, David Stathaim; Old Olmsted, Richard Hamilton, Calvert Vaux, Daniel Gerroll.

Credits:

Credits: historical consultants, Charles Beveridge, Charles McLaughlin.

Notes:

"Based on [Olmsted's] unfinished autobiography 'Passages in the life of an unpractical man'"--Credits.

On container: The Metropolitan Museum of Art home video collection.

"OLM 020"--Spine of container.

OCLC:

26832100