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Ken Burns and crew shoot the Grand Canyon for the 12-hour series planned for air in fall 2009. (Photo: Craig Mellish, courtesy of Florentine Films.)
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, Fall 2009
A co-production of Florentine Films and WETA. Distributor: PBS. Episodes: 6 x 120 (HD). Status: postproduction. Major funders: General Motors, Bank of America, Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund, CPB, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Park Foundation, PBS, National Park Foundation, Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts. Director/producer: Ken Burns. Producer/writer: Dayton Duncan. Executive in charge for WETA: Dalton Delan. Project director: David S. Thompson. Contact: Kate Kelly, kkelly
weta.com. ¶ Chronicles the human story behind the creation of U.S. national parks, from the team that produced Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery. Outreach aims to attract new audiences to the parks based on the Untold Stories project, which collected stories on the role of minorities in the creation and protection of individual parks. Web: www.pbs.org/nationalparks.
Posted Nov. 11, 2008
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