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New Documentary on National Parks by local Bozeman, Montana filmmaker
A BRIGHT IDEA Filmmaker Ken Burns gives Bozeman sneak preview of new documentary ‘National Parks: America's Best Idea'    Most Montanans figure they know all about Yellowstone Park, yet on Thursday night filmmaker Ken Burns showed he's still a master storyteller who can surprise even a Bozeman audience with the history of America's first national park. By GAIL SCHONTZLER • Chronicle Staff Writer    An audience of about 700 at Bozeman's Emerson Theatre stood to applaud and cheer after seeing a 50-minute sneak preview of the new 12-hour Burns documentary "The National Parks - America's Greatest Idea." It will air this fall over six nights.    In addition to stunning photography of geysers and bison, the series focuses on stories about people who were passionate about Yellowstone.    It tells the story, for example, of President Teddy Roosevelt's 1903 visit. Excited as a boy, Roosevelt hiked and rode on horseback all over Yellowstone, loved seeing the animals and was dying to shoot a mountain lion, but was persuaded that would be bad politics. The president settled for killing a mouse, which he promptly stuffed as a scientific specimen.    For 30 years Burns, 55, has been making award-winning documentaries for public television, from "The Civil War" ... more

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