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[[image]] PLAY THE LEGEND The West soon fueled an entire industry: the entertainment business. When the first Western movie was shown, the audience stood up, cheered and shouted for a re-run. Said Bronco Billy Anderson, "That's it. It's going to be the picture business for me. The future has no end." This program shows the West as the subject of popular culture and show business, the greatest circus act in the world, from dime novels to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, from the movie cowboys to that modern embodiment of the cowboy spirit, the country singer. (52 minutes, color) FFH 1106 VHS or Beta: $179 U-Matic: $229 Rental: $75 ENDURING DREAMS Through wars, depressions and social upheavals, the West has accommodated to change while remaining a mythical land of freedom and possibility. The ghosts of the buffaloes are still stirring. Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood have given way to native artists; Indians - once the subjects of painting - have become its practitioners. So the myth regenerates itself and the American consciousness and the American dream are reshaped and redefined. (52 minutes, color) FFH 1107 VHS or Beta: $179 U-Matic: $229 Rental: $75 [[image]] [[image]] ADVISORY PANEL FOR THE SERIES JAMES BALLENGER, Director of Art, Phoenix Art Museum ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM, Director, The Anschutz Collection BRIAN W. DIPPIE, Professor of History, University of Victoria PETER HASSRICK, Director, Buffalo Bill Historical Center GERHARD HOFFMAN, Professor of English and American Studies, University of Wurzburg WILIAM HOWZE, Director of Media and Television Projects, Amon Carter Museum FRED MYERS, Director, The Gilcrease Museum BARBARA NOVAK-O'DOHERTY, Professor of Art History, Barnard College JOSEPH C. PORTER, Curator of Western American History and Ethnology, Omaha Center for Western Studies MARLOU J. QUINTANA, Director, Gerald P. Peters Gallery WILLIAM TRUETTNER, Curator of 18th-and-19th-century paintings and sculpture, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution RON TYLER, Curator of History, Amon Carter Museum [[image]] THE WEST OF THE IMAGINATION By purchasing the complete series you SAVE $100 VHS or Beta:$974 • U-Matic:$1274