Richard Ben Cramer
2) Buffalo Bill
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film presents a portrait of the man who made the American West into the American story. For most Americans in the mid 1800s, the Wild West existed only in dime novels, but a young man from Kansas who had roamed the prairies in the war with the Plains Indians came to embody the picaresque frontier hero. As the frontier was rapidly disappearing, he realized he could market his life as entertainment, and millions around the world would pay for...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003, c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to suppress the 1941 film Citizen Kane and destroy Welles.