Shared stories of Minnesota's greatest generation 2008 : 52 short films exploring the life and legacy of a generation.

Title:

Publication Information:

[St. Paul, Minn.] : Minnesota Historical Society, [2008]

Physical Description:

6 videodiscs : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Title from container spine.

DVD.

Contents:

Disc 1. Delano stories ; First lady of Minnesota ; Courage is ; Iwo Jima : shaped a generation ; What we reflect ; Life was good ; Florian ; Voices from the pews ; A navigator's journey -- disc 2. C. Beck ; Charles Beasley ; Stories found ; The war didn't break him ; Shirley Laukka : a survival story ; Mr. Brown ; Super Fortress to space shuttle ; Inventing the G-suit -- disc 3. Tekker ; Admit one ; House of Wong ; The Romeos ; To Boeing and back ; Gratefulness : Madeleine Titus ; Zest for life ; I can keep the world from changing me ; Sigrid Bachmann : from there to here -- disc 4. Bluebirds of Dover ; From Demob to boom : a postwar life ; Admit two ; Miss Mickey ; Cloud of dreams ; A black soldier's story ; At home with Audrey ; Death march : Mn remember Bataan ; A farmer's daughter -- disc 5. Abuelita ; Red leader on fire ; Man with a mission : Milton L. Rudnick ; Barbara Knight Coffin ; Listening to Russ ; Nose art ; Soap box derby champion ; Lives in harmony ; To have lived during this time -- disc 6. The canoe king of Ely ; From the prairie to the Pacific ; Letter to my mother ; A sack full of sun : Conrad Balfour ; Still marching ; Rosalie Wahl ; For freedom ; Howie and Ruth.

Summary:

In August 2005, the Minnesota Historical Society marked the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II by launching the Minnesota's Greatest Generation Project, a campaign to explore the life and legacy of Minnesotans who grew up amid the depression of 1930s, came of age during World War II, and participated in the boom that followed in the wake of the war. The Moving Pictures -- Shared Stories of Minnesota's Greatest Generation film project is one piece of the campaign to preserve these important stories. Filmmakers of all ages and abilities were invited to submit a film less than 10 minutes in length, exploring aspects of the life and legacy of an individual or a group from the Greatest Generation. These discs include entries from 2007.

Corporate Subject:

Minnesota's Greatest Generation Project

Geographic Term:

Minnesota -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Subject Term:

Depressions 1929--Minnesota

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American

Children--Minnesota -- Social conditions 20th century.

Youth--Minnesota -- Social conditions 20th century.

Families--Minnesota 20th century.

Nineteen thirties

Nineteen forties