Memorial Hall Library

The West., Ken Burns presents ; a film by Stephen Ives ; a co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV Washington in association with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television ; produced by Stephen Ives, Jody Abramson, Michael Kantor ; directed by Stephen Ives ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward & Dayton Duncan, Fullscreen

Originally produced as a documentary television program in 1996Program notes on set container include episode summaries and a message from Ken Burns & Stephen Ives ("New perspectives on the West")Individual episodes of this program are indexed by the PBS Video database of America's history & culture merged index. The index is available in print and online"Presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original television exhibition"--ContainerSpecial features (disc 1): making-of featurette (9 min.); interview with Burns & Ives & Geoffrey C. Ward (originally broadcast on The Charlie Rose Show, 22 min.); 4 interactive maps; "The West" trivia quiz (10 questions); "Did you know ...? Frontier facts" (10 entries)

mixed

quadrophonic multichannel or surround

Editors, Richard Hankin, Michael Levine, Adam Zucker ; supervising editor, Paul Barnes ; director of photography, Buddy Squires with Allen Moore ; music by Matthias Gohl ; narrator, Peter Coyote

other

Full screen.

9781415702482

videodisc

Narrated by Peter Coyote

5 videodiscs (707 min.), sound, color & black and white, 4 3/4 in.

sound on medium

videodisc

(Sirsi) 1656882(OCoLC)56612413

DVD, NTSC; region 1; Dolby surround stereo

097368858343841887051279

88583 -- PBS Home VideoWEST600 -- PBS

DVD