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Great Images of Alaska [VHS]

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Great Images of Alaska is a two-tape set providing the viewer with two full hours of scenic beauty accompanied by an interesing and informative narration. The first video, The Story of American's Last Frontier Alaska, gives you a brief overview of all her National Parks. Each park is revealed in stunning film footage as the narrator provides you with a compact history of the land, it's native inhabitants, and the wildlife that still roams free and protected. The segments on the great Gold Rushes of the late 1800's and the invasion by the Japanese of the Aleutian Islands during WWII were especially interesting. The only major flaw was the lack of background music/sounds during large portions of the narration. When they show the Native American's dancing at one of the parks during the first section of the film, you don't get to hear the drum beats or the ancient chants. Nor do you get to hear the running of the rivers, the crashing of the great walls of ice from the glaciers into the water, or any other of nature's wonderful sounds. Luckily the narration is very good which helps to make up, a little, for this lack. The second video, Alcan Highway Adventure Road to Alaska, is by far the better of the two films. Save this one to watch after you finish the other one. It gives you a full and interesting history of the building of the Alcan highway from it's starting point in Canada all the way to it's end almost 1500 miles later in Fairbanks Alaska. The road was built in a little over eight months during WWII and the historic narration is once again, very informative. Only this time, you get to "hear" the sounds of the people, places and animals in the backgrounds which makes you feel like you are really there. You get to meet some residents who live along the road as well view the majestic region that is their home. You travel down the road from Whitehorse to Dawson to Fairbanks and all the little nooks and crannies in between. This was is armchair travel at it's finest. You definitely want to go book a flight to the Yukon and travel the road for yourself!

Great Images of Alaska is a two-tape set providing the viewer with two full hours of scenic beauty accompanied by an interesing and informative narration. The first video, The Story of American's Last Frontier Alaska, gives you a brief overview of all her National Parks. Each park is revealed in stunning film footage as the narrator provides you with a compact history of the land, it's native inhabitants, and the wildlife that still roams free and protected. The segments on the great Gold Rushes of the late 1800's and the invasion by the Japanese of the Aleutian Islands during WWII were especially interesting. The only major flaw was the lack of background music/sounds during large portions of the narration. When they show the Native American's dancing at one of the parks during the first section of the film, you don't get to hear the drum beats or the ancient chants. Nor do you get to hear the running of the rivers, the crashing of the great walls of ice from the glaciers into the water, or any other of nature's wonderful sounds. Luckily the narration is very good which helps to make up, a little, for this lack. The second video, Alcan Highway Adventure Road to Alaska, is by far the better of the two films. Save this one to watch after you finish the other one. It gives you a full and interesting history of the building of the Alcan highway from it's starting point in Canada all the way to it's end almost 1500 miles later in Fairbanks Alaska. The road was built in a little over eight months during WWII and the historic narration is once again, very informative. Only this time, you get to "hear" the sounds of the people, places and animals in the backgrounds which makes you feel like you are really there. You get to meet some residents who live along the road as well view the majestic region that is their home. You travel down the road from Whitehorse to Dawson to Fairbanks and all the little nooks and crannies in between. This was is armchair travel at it's finest. You definitely want to go book a flight to the Yukon and travel the road for yourself!