1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details
DVD; region 1; NTSC; widescreen; 5.1 surround.
Language
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Credits
Co-produced by Alison Guss ; edited by Don Kleszy ; original score Gary Lionelli ; camera by Philip Holihan and Paul Reuter.
Note
"WGBH"--Container.
Event
Originally broadcast on PBS as the television program American Experience in 2009.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Summary
Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
