2001 VIDEO CATALOG - Clinton Essex Franklin Library System

Lake Lake Champlain Champlain Ice Ice Exhibition
Exhibition
Narrated by S.A. Ransom, we are taken on a tour of the Ice Exhibit at Clinton County Museum.
45 min. color
Lake Lake Placid
Placid
An investigative team, armed with state-of-the-art equipment, high powered weaponry and a biting sense
of sarcasm, must work together to defeat Black Lake's most ferocious resident : a 30-foot prehistoric
crocodile.
82 min. color cc
Lamaze Lamaze Method: Method: Method: Techniques Techniques for for for Childbirth Childbirth Preparation
Preparation
The popular childbirth preparation program by Patty Duke Astin.
45 min. color
Land Land of of Little Little Rain
Rain
In 1900, if you wanted to be a writer in California, you had better be a man. Mary Austin became so much
more - a poet, novelist, critic and playwright. Drawn to the Native Americans and the ways of the desert,
she embraced the Indian culture. Caught within an unhappy marriage and with an autistic child, life on
the frontier edges was lonely and frustrating. This is Mary's true story as one of the first and foremost
American writers to document the complex culture and heritage of the American southwest.
62 min. color
Land Land of of of the the Eagle: Eagle: Across Across the the the Sea Sea Sea of of of Grass
Grass
Trace the journey of Lewis and Clark and other early pioneers of the land beyond the Mississippi who
made their way across the plains that were home to the buffalo, grizzly bear, pocket gophers, pronghorn
antelope and tribes of Mandan, Sioux and Pawnee. See how thousands of determined settlers turned
these wild lands into wheat fields and understand why the destruction of the vast buffalo herds had such
an impact on the Indian populaion who depended on them.
60 min. color cc
Land Land of of the the Eagle: Eagle: Confronting Confronting Confronting the the the Wilderness
Wilderness
Move north along the eastern seaboard of North America to examine the harsh, rocky land around
Hudson Bay and trace the history of French and B ritish entrepreneurs who ventured there to hunt and
trap. Trace the settlement of the St. Lawrence River and learn how French fur traders and Ojibway,
Algonquin, Huron, Ottawa and other Indians collaborated in a prosperous business partnership until an
outbreak of smallpox decimated thousands of Native Americans.
60 min. color cc
Land Land of of the the Eagle: Eagle: Conquering Conquering the the Swamps
Swamps
Follow the earliest explorations of what constitutes modern day Florida. See how man's exploitation of
Florida, from the expeditions of Hernanado de Soto to today's tourist and retirement meccas, has forever
altered this fragile environment.
60 min. color cc
Land Land Land of of of the the Eagle: Eagle: First First and and Last Last Last Frontier Frontier
Frontier
Tour the natural spendors of Alaska, a land settled by indigenous people thousands of years before
Russians and Europeans arrived in pursuit of sea otter, walrus and bowhead whales. Explore the worlds
of the Inuit and Tlingit tribes that lived with the vast populations of caribou, brown bear and seals.
Understand why Alaska may be the final opportunity to strike a balance between the development of
natural resources and the perservation of our natural heritage.
60 min. color cc
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