03974cam a2200637 4500 257409363 TxAuBib 20160314120000.0 080305s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780793694174 0793694175 841887009188 AMX62003 PBS Home Video TxAuBib Buffalo Bill / PBS ; a HiddenHill Productions film for American Experience ; WGBH Boston ; written, produced and directed by Rob Rapley. Alexandria, VA : Distributed by PBS Home Video, 2008. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. Special feature include: teacher's Guide [PDF format printable discussion guide, requires a DVD-ROM and Adobe Acrobat]; web links [text feature]. Introduction -- Scout and buffalo hunter -- Inventing Buffalo Bill -- World at his feet -- Native Americans in the Wild West Show -- Frontier story is the American story. Editor, Penny Elliott Hays ; director of photography, Michael Chin ; original music composed by Joel Goodman. Narrator, Richard Ben Cramer ; commentators, Paul Fees, Louis Warren, Charles Scoggin, Bobby Bridger, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Juti Winchester, L. G. Moses, Guy Dull Knife,. Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of the television series American experience on February 25, 2008. This film presents a portrait of the man who made the American West into the American story. For most Americans in the mid-1800s, the Wild West existed only in dime novels, but a young man from Kansas who had roamed the prairies in the war with the Plains Indians came to embody the picaresque frontier hero. As the frontier was rapidly disappearing, he realized he could market his life as entertainment, and millions around the world would pay for a taste of his Wild West. Tall, handsome, confident, and charismatic, he blurred the line between truth and entertainment, history and myth. Thus was a mere plainsman turned into an international celebrity and frontier hero, his meteoric rise to fame made possible by his genius and hucksterism. His name was William Cody, but the world remembers him as Buffalo Bill. MPAA rating: Not rated. DVD; region 1; NTSC; 5.1 stereo. surround; widescreen presentation, enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions. 20160314. Closed captioned. Buffalo Bill 1846-1917. Buffalo Bill 1846-1917. Relations with Indians of North America. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show History. Pioneers West (U.S.) Pioneers West (U.S) Biography. Entertainers West (U.S.) Entertainers United States Biography. Entertainers West (U.S.) Biography. Scouts (Reconnaissance) West (U.S.) Biography. Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Indians of North America Great Plains History 19th century. Wild west shows History 19th century. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. West (U.S) History 1860-1890. United States History 19th century. Nonfiction television programs. Biographical television programs. Documentary television programs. Rapley, Rob. Cramer, Richard Ben. Chin, Michael. Goodman, Joel, (Joel Scott.) Hidden Hill Productions. WGBH Educational Foundation. WGBH (Television station : Boston), Mass.) PBS Home Video. Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) American experience (Television program.)