This Was America - Visions of America--Episode 06 (1982)

DateJanuary 14 1982

Can DescriptionsThis Was America "Visions of America" Show #6 1/14/82

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. 2716.1418.]