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Producers
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Program
Preview
The
Alaskan Perspective
On
Location
Filming
History
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In the summer of 1999, Larry
Hott and Diane Garey of Florentine Films/Hott Productions
began work on a two-part, two-hour documentary film for
PBS."The Harriman Expedition Retraced" will bring together
the dynamic elements of both the 1899 and current
expeditions. The film will tell the story of the original
voyage, as well as the life stories of the expedition's most
compelling characters.
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Larry Hott,
far left, brings his crew to film in Prince William
Sound, June, 1999. From left, Hott, Ron LaMothe,
Allen Moore, Matt Monroe, Simone Machamer, and
seated, Rob Keelan. Photographed by Ted Raynor.
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Modern-day cinematography and
commentary by contemporary scientists and artists along the
coast will give viewers an opportunity to consider the
changes of the past century in Alaska.
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Filming in
the Harriman Fiord, Prince William Sound, June,
1999.
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"The Harriman Expedition
Retraced" will be Hott and Garey's fifteenth major
collaboration on a PBS documentary. Their awards include an
Emmy, two Oscar nominations, and the George Foster Peabody
Award.
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Sheep Hunter
Sheep Hunter in Alaska,
1898, photographed by Dall
DeWeese.
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"Things are on a new
scale. The standard one brings with him will not
hold. The eye says it is three miles to such a
point and it turns out six; or that the front of
yonder glacier is a hundred feet high and it is two
hundred more. For my part I never succeeded in
bring my eye up to the Alaska scale."
John Burroughs, Volume I, The Harriman Alaska
Expedition.
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"There is one other
asset of the territory not yet enumerated,
imponderable, and difficult to appraise, yet one of
the chief assets of Alaska, if not the greatest.
This is the scenery."
Henry Gannett, geographer, writing in Volume II of
The Harriman Alaska Expedition.
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