Views of a Vanishing Frontier

1988 / 58 min. / DVD / Color
Producer: Karl Katz
Director: Craig B. Fisher

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Credit and Notes

Studios: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Osprey Productions, Inc.
Executive Producer: Karl Katz
Director: Craig B. Fisher
Writer: Craig B. Fisher / Helen Ashton
Narrator: Sam Waterston
Journals Read By: Werner Klemperer

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From 1832-1834, Prince Maximilian zu Wied, a German aristocrat, and Swiss artist, Karl Bodmer, took a historic journey to the American West. Views of a Vanishing Frontier retraces their two-year expedition to the upper reaches of the Missouri River (present-day Montana), and evokes the experience using Bodmer’s original paintings, location photography, and real words taken from Prince Maximilian’s diary. Bodmer and Maximilian left an important legacy cherished by today’s Native Americans, preserving an era of American cultural history that soon vanished with the onslaught of technological civilization.

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