| Description |
3 videodiscs (approximately 378 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD, fullscreen (4:3) presentation; Dolby digital. |
| Performer |
Charles Kuralt, host. |
| Note |
Originally broadcast on CBS television as 18 individual episodes. |
|
Compiled by the Travel Channel. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Blenheim Ginger Ale -- Golden Gate Bridge workers -- Bicycle man -- Super shoe salesman -- Down-home remedies -- 80-year-old cook -- Unique mailbox posts -- American citizen -- Blowing bubbles -- Junk-mail heat -- Simplify -- Domino theory -- Old advertisements -- Building wooden boats -- Roadside Shangri-la -- Kentucky croquet-playing field -- "Black Diamond" private railcar -- "Twidd", the circus bandleader -- Whistle-stop ride -- Toothpick artist -- National weather survey. |
|
Disc 2. All-night library -- Life on the bayou -- Living in a small town -- Lady Mayor -- Bullfighter -- Wind symphony/carousels -- Shipbuilders of Maine -- Interstate 80 -- Farming and fishing in Kansas -- Greek sponge fisherman -- Bishop of Spokane -- Volkswagens -- Piney Woods Thoreau -- Coffee cups -- Wheat harvest -- Cadillac Ranch -- Nebraska: Bountiful desert -- Illinois: Abraham Lincoln's hometown -- Hummingbirds -- Maple sugar -- Woman driver -- Mayor of Duncan -- Dowser -- One-room schoolhouse -- Brick maker -- Cable cars -- Iowa. |
|
Disc 3. Mushrooms -- Covered bridges -- Turkey trot -- Kite man -- Montana: Little Big Horn -- 104-year-old man -- Cymbals factory -- Sleighs -- California: The Mission Trail -- Chicken man -- Idaho: The river of no return -- Man who waves at traffic -- Pauli Murray -- Delta Queen -- Street vendor -- Colorado prospectors -- Stone skipping -- New Mexico: Atomic bomb -- Pothole festival -- Greenup H.S. cheerleaders -- Crop artist -- Bike messenger -- Lace making -- Cicadas -- Capitals of the world -- South Dakota: Cowboys of Deadwood. |
| Summary |
Charles Kuralt found everyone interesting. Beginning in 1967, he and his small CBS television crew crisscrossed the nation in a motor home, avoiding the interstates to meet the ordinary people on America's back roads. First aired on The CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite, the resulting vignettes became a beloved touchstone of American culture for more than 20 years. |
| Language |
English dialogue with optional English subtitles. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
United States -- Description and travel.
|
|
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
|
|
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
|
|
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
|
|
United States -- History.
|
| Genre/Form |
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
|
|
Television series.
|
|
Documentary television programs.
|
| Added Author |
Kuralt, Charles, 1934-1997.
|
|
Acorn Media (Firm)
|
|
CBS Television Network.
|
|
Travel Channel (Firm)
|
| Added Title |
On the road with Charles Kuralt (Television program)
|
| Standard No. |
054961830299 |
| Music No. |
14459 Acorn Media |
|
