Elegy to recreation and relaxation in state and national parks.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Producer: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Sponsor: N/A
Audio/Visual: Si, B&W
Keywords: Recreation; Parks; Nature

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: preleenger - - September 21, 2008
Subject: Parks in 1938
Its interesting to think of the historical context of this video. 1938 was not too long after the crash and people were not completely out of the depression yet. Also, war was starting with Japan and Germany. It seems like parks were being promoted as therapy for troubling times. It makes me want to visit a park now!

Reviewer: ERD - - March 28, 2006
Subject: Too bad it wasn't in color.
Produced by the U.S Department of the Interior (not Agriculture)This 1938 film about the state parks in Minnesota was well done. Too bad it wasn't photographed in color. I found the cars and people's outfit of that era interesting.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - January 29, 2004
Subject: Uncoscious for this film however.
Quite similar in style to, if you can beleive it, Brandon, Park Conxcious involves a narrator that doesnt really go beyond "parks are good" while having delirious classical music pipe in during the (long) gaps when he is not talking. The images we see are just various people frolicking in of course, parks. Not bad for the iomages, but everything else falls flat.

Reviewer: Steve Nordby - - November 19, 2003
Subject: A park with a view
US Dept. of Interior distributed this film praising Minnesota's state parks developed under the New Deal with idylic summer woodlands and lake front scenes. Nice scenery.

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