Your Beautiful Tennessee State and National Parks

NPT is preparing the latest installment of its popular Beautiful Tennessee series, and this time, we’re focusing on Tennessee’s State and National Parks. We want your home movies. Got video from that family hike in the Smoky Mountains? Ever bike the entire Tennessee stretch of the Natchez Trace?*

Inspired by Ken Burns’ approach to “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” a new 12-hour documentary that traces the origins and growth of the national parks system over 150 years scheduled for fall ‘09, we are looking for home movies from the time period of the 1920s through the 1980s and are most interested in footage of families and tourists in the parks.

If your home movies are used, you will receive a DVD of the program. Please follow the criteria listed below.

Home movies from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s.

We are most interested in families and tourists in the parks, not scenery without people.

Do not send original footage: VHS or DVD copies only, please. THE MATERIAL WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

Clearly mark the tape or disc with your name, address, phone number and e-mail (if available), so we can contact you if your footage is selected.

Include a brief description, e.g., the Smith family, George and Martha, Bill and Sally, in the Smokies, 1955.

Send to the address below by January 1st, 2009

Nashville Public Television
161 Rains Avenue
Nashville TN 37203
attn: Ed Jones

*I’m contemplating this…