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Wilderness Idea, The: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot and the First Great Battle for Wilderness (DVD) |
Email This Page | | Filmmaker: Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey |
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Price listed includes Public Performance License. |
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An exploration of the first national controversy about America`s wilderness: Should Hetch Hetchy, a valley within Yosemite National Park, be dammed and flooded to form a reservoir for San Francisco? On one side, utilitarians argued that the benefits of water and power for the city outweighed the good of an untouched valley. On the other side, preservationists pleaded the intrinsic spiritual worth of wilderness. After a long and bitter debate, the dam was approved by Congress; the schism in American attitudes that emerged in the dispute still endures The Wildernes Idea explores this seminal chapter in American environmental politics by tracing the pathers of the leaders of the two faction; John Muir, the brilliant and eccentric founder and first president of the Sierra club, and Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service, who defined conservation as the wise management of natural resources. Combining archival materials with stunning cinematography shot on location in Yosemite, this timeless film tells the dramatic story of two founders of the American conservation movement and the historic battle that drove them apart. Please see the companion film, Wild by Law
Running time: 58 min, Year released: 2008
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: dvd
ISBN: 9781559747820
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 7th and up
Other Credits: A film by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey |
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Blue Ribbon 1990 American Film & Video Festival
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This title can also be found in: American Film Festival Award Winners, California, Ecology, Environmental, Florentine Films -- films by, History, Nature, Pollution, U.S. Government, U.S. History, U.S.A., Urban Planning/Urban Life, Wilderness, Wildlife |
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