The National Parks : America's Best Idea. Disc 4, Episode Four, Going Home (1920-1933)
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Originally broadcast on television.
Special features: outtakes: An interview with Nevada Barr & "The Boss."
Narrated by Peter Coyote.
As the nation enters the 1920's, Stephen Mather and Horace Albright ally themselves with the automobile to "democratize" the national parks and attract more Americans to them. Nebraskans Margaret and Edward Gehrke begin collecting parks each summer, while Glenn and Bessie Hyde spend their honeymoon in a homemade boat on the raging Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Horace Kephart, a reclusive writer, and George Masa, a Japanese immigrant and photographer, launch a campaign to save the virgin forests of the Smoky Mountains from destruction by making it a national park.
DVD, widescreen; 5.1 surround (English), 2.0 stereo (English, Spanish).
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PUBLISHED
Hollywood, Calif. : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: ILL
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Burns, Ken, 1953-
Duncan, Dayton.
Coyote, Peter.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
Florentine Films.
WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
SUBJECTS
National parks and reserves -- United States -- History.
Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.) -- History.
Documentary television programs.
Nature television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
Television programs for people with visual disabilities.