Producer
Florentine Films and WETA
Series Description
This four-hour television documentary chronicles the four-year journey of explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the uncharted American West. Starting out with $2,500, their small expedition traveled thousands of miles, experiencing the lands, rivers, and peoples that no Americans had ever seen before.
Funders
General Motors Corporation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), William T. Kemper Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Travel Montana
Educational Outreach Budget Range
Medium ($50K-$250K)
Educational Outreach "Producers"
PBS Online (PBS.org) produced the Web site. Roger Los of Seattle, Wash., developed original graphic design and site development. Bean Creative completed site redevelopment and interactive activities. Blackbean Design developed the student activity sheet layout. Sunlight Design created the maps.
Partners
There were no external partners for this project.
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