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Alaska
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Worldwide Travel Films
  
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Publisher: TravelVideoStore.com
Pub Date: 2007
Subject(s):  Documentary
Travel
Language(s):  English

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File size:   429612 KB
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Release date:   Mar 26, 2008

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ALASKAFilmed and produced by Fran & Brooke ReidelbergerScripted and narrated by Fran ReidelbergerIn southeast Alaska, the towns and places visited include: Ketchikan, Petersburg, Sitka, Juneau, Haines, Skagway, Glacier Bay National Park, Chilkat RIver Eagle Preserve, Misty Fjords National Monument and a fly - in fishing camp. Features include: - Scenes of Ketchikan, the Gateway City, with its "red light" district, plus totem carving and historic Totem Bight; - a fly - in to a luxury fishing camp where record breaking Silver Salmon abound and brown bears are seen on nature walks; "Big Blue Canoes", the state - run ferry system that is the real highway for most people who live in the southeast Alaska; - The Norwegian heritage of Petersburg and its commerical shrimp fishing industry; - Sitka, rich in Russian history, religion and dancing, along with the annual Luumberjack Contest and lumbering in the Tongass National Forest; - the state capital of Jueau, with its gold mining history, cruise ships and salmon bakes, modern merchants and torist momentos, plus Mendenhall Glacier; - a flight over the Juneau Ice Field and glacier calvig at Glacier Bay National Park; - Chikat Indian dancers in Haines, historical Ft. Seward and thousands of eagles along the Chilkat river; - Skagway's modern "gold rush" of tourists who flock to the shops and to ride the spectacular White Pass and Yukon Railway; In Alaska's Interior, towns and places visited include: Tok, Fairbanks, Prudhoe Bay, Valdez and Prince William Sound, Nome, Kotzebue, the Pribilof Islands, Seward, Homes, Anchorage, Kenai Peninsula, Matanuska Valley, and Denali National Park. Features include: - Historical photos and information about the contruction of the Alcan (Alaska - Canada) Highway; - Tok, the first Alaskan town reached on the Alcan; - paddle wheel river boats and modern gold mining in Fairbanks; - driving the "haul road" along the oil pipeline with stops at the mighty Yukon River and the Arctic Circle; - oil story from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez and Prince William Sound; - the Kenai Peninsula - a variety of wildlife and wildflowers, all within minutes of downtown Anchorage; - 4th of july in Seward, world - class halibut in Homer and giant vegetables in Palmer; - huskies and dog sleds in Nome; - Blanket tosses and Eskimo art in Kotzebue; - rare birds and fur seals in the Pribilof Islands; - a look ast modern Anchorage, Alaska's largest city and air crossroads of world travel; - Denali National Park with incomparable Mt. McKinley, pluse moose, caribou, giant grizzly bears and tiny wildflowers.

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