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Frederick Law Olmsted : designing America /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: FLAO601 | PBSLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Publisher: [Alexandria, Virginia] : PBS, [2014]Distributor: [Arlington, Virginia] : PBS Distribution, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Wide screenDescription: 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

9781627890458
1627890459

Subject(s):

Genre/Form: Production credits:

Cinematography, Stephen McCarthy [and 5 others] ; music, Judy Hyman.

Narrator, Stockard Channing ; voice of Olmsted, Campbell Scott ; interviews with: Betsy Shure Gross, Charles Birnbaum, Garrett Nelson, Adam Gopnik, Charles E. Beveridge, Justin Martin, Wytold Rybczynski, Douglas Blonsky, David Scobey, Francis R. Kowsky, Harrison Hogan.Summary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-03421 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050309418

Originally broadcast in 2014 on PBS.

Special feature: Olmsted's enduring legacy featurette.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; wide screen presentation; stereo.

In English; with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH).

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