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Library of American Landscape History | LALH
Registrace 18. 10. 2012
LALH films are intended to educate wide audiences about the fine art of landscape architecture and to delve into the cultural histories-many of them previously unexplored-that have shaped the American landscape over the centuries.
The North America by Design film series is grounded in core scholarship distilled from LALH books. Each of these engaging, fifteen-minute films is hosted by a historian or landscape architect who explains design and landscape history in accessible terms. Enhanced by music and thoughtful narrative, transporting landscape footage puts these stories into broad, accessible context. The series includes "The Best Planned City in the World," recipient of the Society of Architectural Historians Film Award.
Appropriate for students, practitioners, and scholars as well as the interested general public, the films in the series can be viewed on our website and on CZcams. Produced in association with Forster Films, Brooklyn, NY.
www.lalh.org
The North America by Design film series is grounded in core scholarship distilled from LALH books. Each of these engaging, fifteen-minute films is hosted by a historian or landscape architect who explains design and landscape history in accessible terms. Enhanced by music and thoughtful narrative, transporting landscape footage puts these stories into broad, accessible context. The series includes "The Best Planned City in the World," recipient of the Society of Architectural Historians Film Award.
Appropriate for students, practitioners, and scholars as well as the interested general public, the films in the series can be viewed on our website and on CZcams. Produced in association with Forster Films, Brooklyn, NY.
www.lalh.org
Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South
Based on the award-winning book by William E. O’Brien, the LALH film underscores the profound inequality that persisted for decades in the number, size, and quality of state park spaces provided for Black visitors across the South. Even though it has largely faded from public awareness, the imprint of segregated design remains visible in many state parks.
Emphasizing the events leading to integration in the 1960s, "Landscapes of Exclusion" features commentary by author William E. O’Brien and the architect Arthur J. Clement, who attended a segregated state park as a child. Dramatic images and live footage bring this painful history into contemporary focus.
To learn more about the Library of American Landscape History and to purchase the book, please visit: lalh.org/books/featured/landscapes-exclusion/
To inquire about screenings, contact Sarah Allaback: sallaback@lalh.org
Executive Producer: Robin Karson
Director: Ian Forster
A Production of: Library of American Landscape History and Forster Films, Inc.
Based on the Book by: William E. O'Brien
Cinematography: Dominic Anaya, Andrew Colton, Marcus Guider, and Marc Levy
Editors: Ian Forster and Regina Spurlock
Narrator: Ashley Bryant
Sound: Larry Decarmine and Brooks Lester
Assistant Camera: Jeff Buckner and Andrew Johnson
Title Design and Graphics: Jason Drakeford
Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Colorist: Russell Yaffe
Sound Mix: Collin Blendell
Special Thanks: Arthur Clement, William E. O'Brien, Jonathan D. Lippincott, Ethan Carr, Carol Betsch, Lake Murray State Park / Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation, and Umstead State Park / North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation
Emphasizing the events leading to integration in the 1960s, "Landscapes of Exclusion" features commentary by author William E. O’Brien and the architect Arthur J. Clement, who attended a segregated state park as a child. Dramatic images and live footage bring this painful history into contemporary focus.
To learn more about the Library of American Landscape History and to purchase the book, please visit: lalh.org/books/featured/landscapes-exclusion/
To inquire about screenings, contact Sarah Allaback: sallaback@lalh.org
Executive Producer: Robin Karson
Director: Ian Forster
A Production of: Library of American Landscape History and Forster Films, Inc.
Based on the Book by: William E. O'Brien
Cinematography: Dominic Anaya, Andrew Colton, Marcus Guider, and Marc Levy
Editors: Ian Forster and Regina Spurlock
Narrator: Ashley Bryant
Sound: Larry Decarmine and Brooks Lester
Assistant Camera: Jeff Buckner and Andrew Johnson
Title Design and Graphics: Jason Drakeford
Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Colorist: Russell Yaffe
Sound Mix: Collin Blendell
Special Thanks: Arthur Clement, William E. O'Brien, Jonathan D. Lippincott, Ethan Carr, Carol Betsch, Lake Murray State Park / Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation, and Umstead State Park / North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation
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Ruth Shellhorn: Midcentury Landscape Design in Southern California
zhlédnutí 15KPřed 8 lety
This twelve-minute film in the LALH North America by Design series profiles Ruth Shellhorn. Over the course of her nearly sixty-year career, modernist landscape architect Ruth Shellhorn (1909-2006) created close to four hundred landscape designs and collaborated with some of the most celebrated architects in Southern California. Inspired to enter the profession by her Pasadena neighbor Florence...
Community By Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts
zhlédnutí 6KPřed 9 lety
From the Library of American Landscape History Based on the LALH book by Keith Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, and Roger Reed, this short documentary tells the story of the development of the community of Brookline through the planning efforts of the firm founded by Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. Through plans for boulevards and parkways, residential subdivisions, institutional commissions, and priv...
The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System
zhlédnutí 61KPřed 10 lety
From the Library of American Landscape History Explore the development of the parks and parkways that Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed for Buffalo, New York, beginning in 1868. A thirteen-minute documentary inspired by the book by author Francis R. Kowsky, published by UMass Press in association with LALH June 2013. The Best Planned City is the third film in the new LALH series N...
Fletcher Steele and Naumkeag: A Playground of the Imagination
zhlédnutí 9KPřed 11 lety
From the Library of American Landscape History Between 1926 and 1955, landscape architect Fletcher Steele and his client Mabel Choate created many new gardens for Naumkeag, the Choate family summer estate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The new designs respected the layout of earlier gardens created c. 1885 by Nathan Barrett for the original Stanford White "cottage." A vibrant relationship devel...
Designing in the Prairie Spirit: A Conversation with Darrel Morrison
zhlédnutí 11KPřed 11 lety
From the Library of American Landscape History Designing in the Prairie Spirit features internationally renowned landscape architect Darrel Morrison, who reflects on his childhood in Iowa and the impact of Jens Jensen, Aldo Leopold, and others on his career. While a graduate student at the Universityof Wisconsin, Morrison came under the influence of Aldo Leopold's classic A Sand County Almanac ...
You dont see the Child labour. Orphantrains. Olmsted did not build all these.
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Fun fact, thousands of people disappear in buffalo's parks every single day
there arent thousands in a park in a single day 💀💀
@@zekzo I know. They all disappear 🫥
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Great documentary, however the city of Buffalo resides in WESTERN NY, not "upstate".
Cazanovia Park in South Buffalo is beautiful. The surrounding neighborhoods were a great place to grow up. Getting more and more trashed now.
Capturing the distant view as Steele did in the Chinese garden is a Japanese idea along with the patined walk. Wabi Sabi.
Absolutely beautiful work, what a brilliant mind.
I'm so very proud of you Ashley...Even your voice overs are beautiful.....😍🥰
Too bad it’s now crippled by decades of decline, high “administration costs”, big government, corruption, poor business environment (New York State), taxes…. The people are great, but in the modern day, are moving out of New York faster than any other state losing population.
P r o m o S M ✔️
Replant the city with tree types that will grow tall like the old Elms. There are Elm trees highly resistive to the Dutch elm disease, among other species. Tall trees, cool the city in the summertime. Neighborhood kids used to love to play in the streets when I was a kid back in the 50s.
...and recent politicians have been destroying Buffalo by building the 190, 198 and the 33 in the city.
Might of been planned well but it’s a dump of a city today.
Buffalo is not a "dump of a city".
The male narrator sounds like the guy who narrates "The Food That Built America".
Quality video on some quality landmarks. Excellent content.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Nope.
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing this excellent film.
Why did you guys stop making videos? These are all fantastic
We are so pleased that you have enjoyed our films! They have been on pause, but a new one is in production now and is based on the William O'Brien's award-winning book Landscapes of Exclusion. For more information, please visit lalh.org.
The Jane Goodall "Ad" is AMAZING!
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Niagara is still the same way. Cheap, shoddy and circus like. Even JohnMuir hated it. The city of Buffalo turned the Humboldt Parkway into the 33 fwy. Why do people take beautiful things and turn them into crap??
I grew up on Humboldt pkwy near Kensington ave ìn the 60's. This is a nice historical presentation
And the sad thing is if I can go back in time to1876, And look at these Parks in their original state I couldn't go probably to certain areas, and or I would be harassed or even hurt or killed! Because I'm African-American sad good old America!
Hello Jay Quinn - I know you would be welcome in North Buffalo. We have a great diversity of ethnicity and nationalities here. Everyone is respectful of one another and there are very few problems here. So come on over and live with us - I know for a fact you would be welcome! Best wishes!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 #tartarianempire #buildings #worldwide #timereset #mudflood #orphantrains #fakery #frequency
Sure would love to see some photos of these magnificent buildings under construction
There's more than Niagara Falls! Another Buffalo s story is the projection that it may be a popular destination for climate refugees relocating from our increasingly heated South!
No1 from the south moved up there.
@@philup6274 I think what John Bos is referring to is that many areas are now suffering from lack of fresh water (especially the SW). I saw on PBS people are re-thinking where they live and looking to areas where there is an abundance of water - the Buffalo- Niagara area was one of the places!
@@sierrachoco5271 stop watching PBS. It's brainwashed you ....
@@philup6274 versus what? Fox that brainwashed you!
@@sierrachoco5271 I don't watch what you consider TV.
And what about McKinley Pkwy. & South Park? There is no mention of them..
....tanx....
Thank you for this splendid presentation which hopefully will inspire a renaissance in the Olmsted/Vaux model of humanistic thought and action.
5:30 That tree to the left is like a bunch of trees formed together.
Its possibly regrowth of the original single trunk that they didnt thin out
Olmsted’s work has stood the test of time.
more videos please!! these are so amazing and done so well!!
My grandfather was born on Sidney St., off of Fillmore Ave., near E. Ferry, in 1910. He used to speak fondly of Humboldt Parkway and its beautiful trees. As a boy, it was his job to carry a ladder up and down the parkway and climb the old gas street lamps to put them out, before school (by the mid-late 1920s, there were still approximately 10,000 working gas street lamps in the city of Buffalo). He was devastated when they blasted the canyon through that neighborhood to put in the expressway.
@debean5670 My GGGG Grandfather was on the other side of the border. In exchange for his service he was given 200 acres of land at the brink of the Canadian falls. It extended from the waterfall to what is now Lundy's Lane. His first name was Francis.
thanks for the subtitle. I can't understand everything when it has only voices. :)
Excellent Documentary.
*HELP PRESERVE LONG LIVED NATIVE ASH TREES PLANTED BY JENSEN ENDANGERED FROM EXTINCTION CAUSED BY EAB WHICH TODAY ARE ONLY TEENAGERS WITH AGES OF 75 TO 130!*
When all quality spaces are replaced with car's infrastructures, "It was called progress", well I guess they could have said - It was liberalism beginning-
What do you know, a simplistic willful misunderstanding of the use of words is a fun way for knot-head Republicans to peddle their bullshit.
Let's bring back some of the progressive thinking that inspired the parks and parkways illustrated in this film. Let's tear down the expressways built through Buffalo's parks and build a sustainable transport system linked to community based economic development. That's the future, Buffalo could lead the way.
Andrew Nash I agree. It is also funny, that expressway. I saw another documentary with the politicians in Buffalo that decided that expressway would be a good idea -- they all regret it now and agree it is having a negative effect.
Buffalo needs to revive its industry along the water, that's the only thing that will carry the city into the future. Cheers, from across the river
@@taylorgall9516 you couldnt be more wrong my friend
7 years later and look how close we are now!!!!! And now Kathy Hochul is Governess and its looking more and more plausible!!!
@anthonysiracuse The thought that you'd believe your state tax dollars would come back to Buffalo is fiction.
A beautiful narrative. But, curiously, no mention of Capability Brown... I would love to know whether he had any distant influence.
Thanks for turning me on to another forgotten accomplished figure Rebecca.