This Was America - Visions of America--Episode 06 [1991]

DateNovember 26 1991

Can DescriptionsMaster This Was America X5841 Master #6 Vision of America Black w/code

AbstractSlate: “This Was America” Show: 6 “Visions of America”. Title: “This Was America with William Shatner”. William Shatner hosts an episode talking about photographers and photographs as historical record. Uses historic still photography and voiceover. Includes photographs of Kingfield, Maine by Chansonetta Stanley Emmons; Photographs of Pacific Northwest logging shot by Darius Kinsey; Photographs of cowboys and the American West by Erwin Smith; and photographs published by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers include William Henry Jackson, William Livingston, and Henry Peabody. [This episode was originally shot in 1979. It was rereleased in 1991 with newer footage of William Shatner. See acc. 2716.1420.]

OtherCredits: Produced by Steve Schlow, Claude Pelanne, Arnie Reisman; Written by Martin W. Sandler, Steve Schlow, Sherry Reisner, Claude Pelanne, Arnie Reisman; Main Title Sequence: Christine Finn; Theme Music: Robert Cavicchio; Music: Dennis Larosee, John Kiehl, Edward Korvin, Ron Frangipane; Editing: Dave Teixeira; Post Production Editing: George Ellard; Cinematography: Ed Dadulak, Chip Proser, Tim Suhrstedt; Videography: Bob Oliver; Lighting: Ed Marcotti; Assistant Camera: H. Raymond Cajuste, Charlie Lew, Don Mitchell, James Carter; Sound: Charles Bargamian, James Fripp, Richard Bock, Bob Hakkila, Bill Flicker; Audio Mixer: Michel Carton; Assistant Directors: Scott Philbrick, Bob Tingle, Bruce Goldman, Fran Morgenstern; Key Grip: Sam Kauffmann; Associate Producers: Peter Fiedler, Sylvia Smith; Intern: Steve Callahan; Make-up: Lori MacKay Pisces Unlimited Inc.; Project Consultant: Peggy Allen; Antique Camera Courtesy of The Jack Naylor Collection; Photographs Courtesy of: Library of Congress, National Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Sandler Collection, The Arvada Center, Bostonian Society, Boulder Historical Society, California Historical Society, Amon Carter Museum, Chicago Historical Society, Colorado Historical Society, Marshall Cook Collection, Edward P. Cooper Collection, Culver Pictures, Degolyer Library, S.M.U., Edison National Historical Site, “The Life Photographs of Chansonetta Stanley Emmons” (Marius B. Peladeau, Maine Antique Digest), Gates & Tripp Collection, Greenfield Village & Henry Ford Museum, Kansas Historical Society, University of Kansas, Edith LaFrancis Collection, Manchester Historical Association, Massillon Museum, Mississippi Dept. of Archives & History, Moorland-Springard Research Center Howard University, National Maritime Museum; Nebraska State Historical Society, New Bedford Whaling Museum; New Haven Colony Historical Society, Museum of the City of New York, Oklahoma Historical Society, University of Oklahoma, Peabody Museum, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, S.P.N.E.A., U.S. Navy, Dept. of Naval History; Vicksburg & Warren County Historical Society, Wellesly College, Wisconsin State Historical Society; Special thanks to Louise McClane, Dr. Max Burger, Silver Service Catering East Falmouth, MA.; Shot on location at: The Airplane House at Juniper Point & National Academy of Science Woods Hole, MA.; Endorsed by The National Education Assoc.; Production Executive: Paul LaCamera