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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Our Animated Documentary – Prime Time in Los Angeles 1/4/11!

December 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, Illustration - Animation, PBS

Dead Reckoning: Champlain In America Dead Reckoning: Champlain In America Tue Jan 4 9:00PM Dead Reckoning: Champlain In America Dead Reckoning: Champlain In America This animated documentary shares the story of the brave explorer and visionary, Samuel de Champlain. via kcet.org A great by-product of KCET dropping their PBS membership – independent documentaries will get [...]

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Warner Brothers is setting up shop in Montreal

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Filmmaking, Illustration - Animation, Multi-media, News, Public Affairs

Further cementing Montreal as a center for animation, gaming and creative media… one of the biggest players in the biz is throwing it hat in the Quebec ring… clipped from www.montrealgazette.com Warner Bros. coming to town To open gaming studio: Company to receive $7.5-million grant, pledges to create 300 jobs by 2015 By JASON MAGDER, [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Dead Reckoning Preview at Plattsburgh’s Cumberland 12 Theater!

October 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, Filmmaking, History, Illustration - Animation

Don’t miss the PBS event of the fall! Mountain Lake PBS’s animated documentary – Dead Reckoning in Plattsburgh For a downloadable poster click here.

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Forgotten War going national

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Documentary, Educational Programming, History, Illustration - Animation, PBS, PBS Distribution

The one hour doc on the French & Indian War we just finished at Mountain Lake PBS has been offered to the PBS system by American Public Television one of the three major distributors to the PBS system (who, by the way, have the best guide to the tech side of producing for PBS that [...]

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