"calm music"
overlayed text: '"the national park idea is the finest contribution of the United States to World Culture" - George Herzog'
- zooming over images of national parks including geyser plumes, volcanic lava, and coastline.
woman's voice: "i joined the Service, because I want to see these lands preserved."
- images of the southwest
new woman's voice: "as far as you can see, this is the homeland of our people."
man's voice: "i think we really need to be concerned about anything that takes a strong vigilance to protect."
- sillhouette of the Statue of Liberty against speckled clouds
new man's voice: "i think it is a travesty that the National Park Service ever considers itself a land management agency. It is an agency that manages ideas and ideals."
- Independence Hall
- Lincoln's face from below in sunset
new man's voice with accent: "We tell the stories of the American People."
- Wright Brother's flight
same man: "we tell the stories of the tribal people. We tell the stories of all the people."
- sunrise over a pueblo. mountain mist in the distance.
new man's voice: "there is something about wilderness that modern men need."
new man: "it's just a great mission. I love the idea of protecting, you know, that natural world."
- panning down on redwood trees and a waterfall.
- sunset in Yosemite
overlayed text: '"Conservation is the state of harmony between man and land." - Aldo Leopold'
"music changes to 40's style"
- fluttering sepia-tone footage of Yellowstone waterfall. Title: "Fantastic Yellowstone."
newsreel announcer: "Through picturesque North Gate, we enter Yellowstone National Park. Since the beginning of time, nature has carried on the never-ending creation of fantastic wonders in Yellowstone National Park."
- old car drives through North Gate, people walking around the geothermal phenomena, Old Faithful erupting fading to modern footage of same.
narrator: "Keep this one great wonder of nature as it is now. "
- Montage of dozens of small national park images begins.
narrator: "There were special places that needed to be preserved... Keep it for your children and your children's children."
new man's voice: "The defining moment of is clearly the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872. ...And for all who come after us, as the one great site that every American should see.
man: "The park idea is that it's beneficial to a society to set aside large tracts of natural land. ..As will leave them unimpaired for future generations.
- high speed footage of people milling around in the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, while the Jefferson statue stays still.
man: "There had been the beginnings of a historic preservation movement in this country, and this was part of the expansion of the Park Service.
- People at high speed in old houses, museums, monuments.
woman: "Nothing can replace the feel of a historic site."
man: "The artifacts are documents. They tell us something about ourselves. How we live, what's important to us."
- montage of collections, collections management, curators, archives.
man: "The lady is beautiful. She's a symbol of Freedom in America."
- looking up at Statue of Liberty with a blue sky above.
narrator: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be free."
woman: "They're our future generation. They're the ones that's gonna be helping to preserve these sites, you know, in times to come."
overlayed text: '"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana'
man: "The United States became the Unites States right here. "
- Independence Hall.
- Statues of Founding Fathers.
man: "It's rather a moving experience to actually see where it all happened. The presidency was born here. "
man: "... that all men are created equal. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These words form the very center, the very core of what it means to be an American."
woman: "Going to a monument and understanding the history and the sacrifice that went into the reason that the monument's there."
- Images of Abraham Lincoln.
narrator: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
- Civil War re-enactment.
man: "Historic places have power because they're real, because they're authentic.
- Cemetary with sunset.
Franklin Roosevelt: "December 7th, 1941 ... a date which will live in infamy."
- Black and white World War II footage montage.
man: "When I came to the wall, and touched that wall, I felt my friends in there. I know they're here in spirit."
- Sunrise reflected in the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
man: "Each national park is a story, and the stories have the meaning of the American people. There's not a lot that binds us all together. One of these things that does are these parks."
- A tent at night with a light inside.
man: "And I'm not worried about the Park Service as an agency, as much as I am about the Parks."
- Looking straight up through redwood trees.
man: "One of the wonderful things about the National Park idea is that it's never done. The work's never finished."
- St. Louis Arch from below.
overlayed text: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Ghandi'
National Park Service, Experience Your America.