This documentary of Frederic Remington reviews how the famed artist popularized the myths, legends, and images we now nostagically call The Old West. This documentary was the first to be filmed in High Definition (HDTV) in 1991.
Over the course of his career, Frederic Remington produced more than three thousand drawings and paintings, twenty-two bronze sculptures, a novel, a Broadway play, and over one hundred articles and stories. With its dramatic subjects and striking realism, Remington's artwork fired the American imagination, and his vision of the West was adopted by the nation.
As the end of the 19th century brought the closing of the frontier, Remington immortalized the Western experience as one of independence, individualism, and stoic heroism. It was this optimistic vision that had encouraged the settling of the West, and was, during Remington's time, the way Americans wanted to see themselves.
He struck a mythic chord in defining our national character that still echoes today in popular culture. From the "Marlboro Man" in the cigarette advertisements to the epic Westerns of John Ford (whose film "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" was directly inspired by Remington's work), images we continue to perceive as uniquely American reflect the enduring legacy of Frederic Remington. (60 minutes, directed by Tom Neff, produced by Amie Knox, Diandra Douglas)
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