RT Video/DVD DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 019368107 LA English T1 Views of a vanishing frontier A1 Bodmer, Karl,, Waterston, Sam., Klemperer, Werner., Fisher, Craig B., Ashton, Helen., Wied, Maximilian,, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Home Vision (Firm), PB Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Home Vision [distributor] PP [New York]; [Chicago, Ill.] YR 1988 AB This film documents the historic journey of Prince Maximilian zu Wied, a German aristocrat, and the Swiss artist, Karl Bodmer, to the American West in 1832-34. Retraces the two-year expedition to the upper reaches of the Missouri River (present-day Montana), and evokes the experience by using Bodmer's original paintings, extensive location photography, and words from Prince Maxmilian's diary.