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Over Arizona

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Delivered with broken, un-usable case. Neither was it totally sealed, so I suspect it was previously returned. This widescreen DVD was produced in 1995 so sound and video quality are quite poor and to top it off, the production is only 30 minutes long, not the 60 minutes advertised. It was sold through "pieceofmindmedia" by Amazon for $10.43 including shipping, instead of the $14.99 list price but, in my opinion, it is worth only $4.99! Do not buy this DVD!

What this vid covers -- Arizona's astonishing beauty -- it covers pretty well. Nice camera work and really good voice work here.

But it's hard to credit that an overview of Arizona would omit so much. This vid has neither Canyon de Chelly nor the chasms of the Little Colorado River that lead into the Grand Canyon. There is nothing of the dinosaur tracks at Tuba City. No mention of the Four Corners where four states converge on a single point. None of the stunning vistas along the eastern side of the state.

I teach on the Navajo reservation, and bought this video with intentions of using it as an adjunct in lessons on local civics and history. But so much has been left out -- without telling us this in advance, before we bought it -- that it's just a curiosity. My students would want to know why their entire part of Arizona got stiffed. As do I.

This is what I have always wanted to be able to see. A view of mother earth and her cities, country's landscapes, that I would have never seen otherwise in my life. My disappointment however is that I have never been able to find an overhead view dvd of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River, that would be worth the effort and time to watch it. Take the ad like commercialism out of such a product. I would pay a thousand bucks or more for such a product from one end to the other of that canyon and river, that which I could watch over and over for the rest of my life (now 81).