Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
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Biography, Nature Documentary hosted by Stockard Channing, published by PBS in 2014 - English narration
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Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America is a biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. Olmsted made enormous contributions to the American landscape and is known as the father of American landscape architecture. He was co-designer of Central Park, head of the first Yosemite commission, leader of the campaign to protect Niagara Falls, designer of the U.S. Capitol Grounds, site planner for the Great White City of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, planner of Boston's "Emerald Necklace" of green space and of park systems in many other cities. Olmsted's pioneering design of the public parks and parkway systems in Buffalo, N.Y. is the oldest coordinated system in America and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics. With gorgeous cinematography, creative animation, and compelling commentary Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America presents the biography of a man whose parks and preservation are an essential part of American life.
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- Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.0
- Video Bitrate: 3040 Kbps (CRF 21)
- Video Resolution: 1280x720
- Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Framerate: 29.970 fps
- Audio Codec: AAC-LC (Nero)
- Audio Quality: 0.50 48KHz (~160 Kbps)
- Audio Channels: 2
- Run-Time: 56mn 41s
- Part Size: 1.25 GiB
- Number of Parts: 1
- Container: MP4
- Released: 2014
- Source: HDTV
- Capper: KarMa
- Subtitles: English - Merged in the MP4
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PBS.Frederick.Law.Olmsted.Designing.America.720p.HDTV.x264.AAC.MVGroup.org.mp4 (1280.22 Mb) Subtitles: [eng]