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Article: The National Parks: America's Best Idea.(Video recording review)
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- Wild West
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- December 1, 2009
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea, PBS, 2009, six disks, 720 mins., $99.99.
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Ken Burns' latest PBS series focuses on the legacy of America's national parks, a unique concept at the time of their genesis in the 19th-century West. No other country had set aside land for public enjoyment. It was a truly American idea and remains very much living history. That immediacy is the cornerstone of the series. Burns by necessity resorts to his trademark slow pans of historical photographs, paintings and the like, but the novelty of that technique has worn thin. Here, however, he layers historical images between truly spectacular modern ...