Mountain Lake PBS Productions

Colin Powers reflects on PBS programming for the Adirondacks, Lake Champlain, & Quebec, public broadcasting, and the future of media distribution.

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Entries Tagged as 'History'

Secrets of the Dead: Japanese Super Sub Tomorrow Night on Mountain Lake PBS

May 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Filmmaking, History, PBS

The Japanese I-400 Class Submarine was an underwater aircraft carrier — a top-secret weapon so potent that it very nearly changed the course of the war. JAPANESE SUPER SUB answers many questions that still surround this unusual weapon: How did the Japanese create this technological marvel? How dangerous was it? Could it really have changed [...]

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Plattsburgh soil gets a scrubbing

April 20th, 2010 · No Comments · History, Local stories, Public Affairs

This is one of the local stories that doesn’t get much attention. Years of toxic dumping next to downtown left a plume of waste trickling into the sand and gravel along our beautiful Saranac River. DEC and the town have slowly been cleaning the site and it will soon be a full-fledged park.  Sad to [...]

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A little late, but a nice glimpse at how we made last year’s documentary

April 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, Filmmaking, History, Illustration - Animation

This nice article described a little about our production of Forgotten War. The photographer was an intern how worked with us for several months.

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Spike TV explores Lake Champlain and it’s legends…

March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · History, Multi-media

See Paul Larson’s interview with Gordie Little to explore a few other legends of the North Country.

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Nature in the North Country Photo Contest

March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Educational Programming, History, Multi-media, PBS

March 18, 2010 is nature night on Mountain Lake PBS with the broadcast of Secrets of the Northern Forest and Rattlers, Peepers and Snappers starting at 9:00 p.m. We are celebrating the beauty of the North Country with a photo and video contest!
Post your nature photos and short videos to the Nature in [...]

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Mountain Lake Awarded for Education Innovation

March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, History, Multi-media, PBS

Mountain Lake PBS was recently recognized for education innovation by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and we are feeling very honored and excited. The MySource Education Innovation Award is given to public media stations like Mountain Lake that are developing ” new approaches for delivering educational content and services that advance learning – on-air, online, [...]

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Small Town, Big Dreams gets another national airing!

February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, History, PBS

After a great couple weeks of broadcast around the US on dozens of PBS affiliates, Small Town, Big Dreams: The Lake Placid Olympic Story is getting a national run on PBS World, the sub-channel of more than 50 PBS affiliates. It will air this Saturday night, March 27 at 7 PM eastern for anyone with [...]

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Bragging rights…

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Filmmaking, History, Illustration - Animation, Multi-media

Sort of a blatant “toot” of our own horn, but I couldn’t resist…
We just posted to the Mountain Lake PBS YouTube page two clips showing off our beautiful graphics and effects work on Forgotten War.

The short one is embedded here, the five minute one is here.
Also, we have some new history minutes produced with Lakes [...]

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Great simple concept… executed brilliantly

December 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Filmmaking, History

Check out these  beautiful vignettes produced by David Lynch and his son.  Plenty of real heart and soul with lots of time to really listen to what people are saying. Hat’s off!

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A weekend of great programming – Don’t miss it!

December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, Filmmaking, History, Illustration - Animation

A new Collector’s Edition DVD of Castle in Every Heart: The Arto Monaco Story is offered tomorrow night (Dec 4th) at 8:00 PM on a special broadcast featuring Producer Derek Muirden and regional guests recalling the Land of Makebelieve. The Program re-airs Saturday (Dec 5th) at 9:00 PM,  Sunday (Dec 6th) at 4:00 PM and [...]

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