Buffalo Bill
(DVD)
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Published
Boston, Mass. : WGBH Educational Foundation ;, [2008].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Main Library - Media
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Published
Boston, Mass. : WGBH Educational Foundation ;, [2008].
Language
English
UPC
841887009188
Notes
General Note
Special feature include: teacher's Guide [PDF format printable discussion guide, requires a DVD-ROM and Adobe Acrobat]; web links [text feature].
Creation/Production Credits
Editor, Penny Elliott Hays ; director of photography, Michael Chin ; original music composed by Joel Goodman.
Participants/Performers
Narrator, Richard Ben Cramer ; commentators, Paul Fees, Louis Warren, Charles Scoggin, Bobby Bridger, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Juti Winchester, L.G. Moses, Guy Dull Knife,
Date/Time and Place of Event
Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of the television series American experience on February 25, 2008.
Description
This film presents a portrait of the man who made the American West into the American story. For most Americans in the mid-1800s, the Wild West existed only in dime novels, but a young man from Kansas who had roamed the prairies in the war with the Plains Indians came to embody the picaresque frontier hero. As the frontier was rapidly disappearing, he realized he could market his life as entertainment, and millions around the world would pay for a taste of his Wild West. Tall, handsome, confident, and charismatic, he blurred the line between truth and entertainment, history and myth. Thus was a mere plainsman turned into an international celebrity and frontier hero, his meteoric rise to fame made possible by his genius and hucksterism. His name was William Cody, but the world remembers him as Buffalo Bill.
System Details
DVD format; region 1; NTSC; 5.1 stereo. surround; widescreen presentation, enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions.
Language
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographies.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show -- History.
Buffalo Bill, -- 1846-1917 -- Relations with Indians of North America.
Buffalo Bill, -- 1846-1917.
Documentary television programs.
Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
Entertainers -- West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century.
Nonfiction television programs.
Pioneers -- West (U.S.)
Scouts (Reconnaissance) -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
United States -- History -- 19th century.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
Wild west shows -- History -- 19th century.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show -- History.
Buffalo Bill, -- 1846-1917 -- Relations with Indians of North America.
Buffalo Bill, -- 1846-1917.
Documentary television programs.
Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
Entertainers -- West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century.
Nonfiction television programs.
Pioneers -- West (U.S.)
Scouts (Reconnaissance) -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
United States -- History -- 19th century.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
Wild west shows -- History -- 19th century.