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The national parks : America's best idea / PBS ; a production of Florentine Films and WETA Television ; written by Dayton Duncan ; produced by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns.
LIBRA DVD 018 100 discs 1-6
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- United States. National Park Service--History.
- United States.
- United States. National Park Service.
- National parks and reserves--United States--History.
- National parks and reserves.
- History.
- Nature conservation--United States--History.
- Nature conservation.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Television programs for hard of hearing people.
- Television programs for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 6 videodiscs (750 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, [2009]
- Language Note:
- English or Spanish dialogue; English or Spanish subtitles.
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD; Region 1; NTSC; Dolby digital 5.1 surround or 2.0 stereo.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- Dolby digital 5.1
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and save them from destruction.
- Contents:
- Episode one. The scripture of nature (1851-1890)
- Episode two. The last refuge (1890-1915)
- Episode three. The empire of grandeur (1915-1919)
- Episode four. Going home (1920-1933)
- Episode five. Great nature (1933-1945)
- Episode six. The morning of creation (1946-1980).
- Participant:
- Narrator: Peter Coyote.
- Credits:
- Editor, Paul Barnes ; cinematographer, Buddy Squires.
- Notes:
- DVD release of television documentary originally broadcast as episodes on PBS in 2009.
- Special features: Making of ; capturing the parks: a behind-the-scenes look ; musical journeys through the parks ; outtakes: an interview with Nevada Barr & "The Boss" ; mini-documentary: The National Parks: This is America ; contemporary stories from America's national parks: series of five short films.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Contains:
- Scripture of nature (1851-1890)
- Last refuge (1890-1915)
- Empire of grandeur (1915-1919)
- Going home (1920-1933)
- Great nature (1933-1945)
- Morning of creation (1946-1980)
- National parks, this is America.
- Capturing the parks.
- ISBN:
- 0793694876
- 9780793694877
- OCLC:
- 454674317
- Publisher Number:
- 841887009881
- NPAB600 PBS Home Video
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