Highlights from Great Smoky Mountains National Park DVD Postcard. 20 minutes of beautiful footage by Russ Finley edited to authentic appalachian mountain folk music. The best of the Smoky Mountains – all the major locations, seasons, scenery, and amazing wildlife. In a ready-to-mail mailer for family and friends! Available on location and from www.finleyholiday.com. Placenames include Cades Cove, Oconaluftee, Roaring Fork Newfound Gap, Clingmans Dome, Cataloochee Gregory Bald Cable Mill, cantilever barn, old timers day celebration, mountain music and much more!
Video Rating: 4 / 5
The Department of Interior takes a look at its effort in the Great Smoky Mountains in this vintage film. This film and other shots from the 1930s are available on the National Archives YouTube channel at: www.youtube.com/usnationalarchives. Transcript (PDF): archives.gov CREATED BYDepartment of the Interior. Division of Motion Pictures. SUMMARY Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) men ride in trucks, work with pick and shovel, operate bulldozers, graders and pneumatic drills, construct parapets and guard rails, and march with pick and shovel in the park. Included are views of forests, flowers, and underbrush. Rangers in towers watch for forest fires. ARC ID 11653 LOCAL IDENTIFIER 48.21 REPOSITORY: Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. For information about ordering reproductions of moving images held by the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, visit: www.archives.gov SUBJECTS Civilians Earthmoving machinery Department of the Interior. National Park Service.(1916 -1933 ), Producer Great Smoky Mountains MORE INFORMATION: More information is available in the National Archives online catalog: arcweb.archives.gov
Video Rating: 5 / 5