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Saving the Great Swamp [videorecording (DVD)]: battle to defeat the jetport / a film by Scott Morris ; co-produced by Larry Fast ; written by Scott Morris and Larry Fast.

[New Jersey?] : Scott Morris Productions, [2017]

©2017

1 videodisc (63 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video all regions

Cinematography, Roger Grange ; original music, Ben Morris

Narrated by Blythe Danner.

"In December, 1959, the powerful Port of New York Authority announced plans to construct a huge 10,000 acre "jetport" 26 miles west of New York City in a semi-rural area known as the Great Swamp. In the name of progress, entire towns would be obliterated, the aquifer and wildlife destroyed, and a way-of-life threatened for thousands of people. The events that followed became one of the most defining environmental confrontations of its time--a grassroots movement that started in a local high school and grew to historic proportions, a blattle that took almost a decade, a president, and an Act of Congress to stop"--Container.

Wide screen (1.78:1).

Special features: Interview clips and additional scenes (20 min.).

"Inspired by: Saving the Great Swamp: the people, the power brokers, an urban wilderness, by Cam Cavanaugh."

Cinematography, Roger Grange ; original music, Ben Morris

Narrated by Blythe Danner.

Nature conservation -- New Jersey -- Great Swamp (Morris County)

Airports -- Environmental aspects -- New Jersey -- Great Swamp (Morris County)

Great Swamp (Morris County, N.J.)

Morris, Scott (Documentary filmmaker), film producer, film director, editor.

Fast, Larry (Historian), film producer, screenwriter.

Cavanaugh, Cam, 1931- consultant.

inspired by: Cavanaugh, Cam, 1931- Saving the Great Swamp.

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