(First Edit) America's Mainstreets: Can We Make Travel Part of the Destination Again? on Vimeo

Hey, everyone! We finally finished the first edit of our video documentary on Route 20! As some (most) of you probably already know, this all started as a still photographic project to document the remaining tourism sites (cabins and motels) along Route 20 between Duanesburg and Richfield Springs, NY. We expanded our scope, researched the heck out of the topic for months, met and interviewed several great interview subjects, checked out some cameras and mics from school, went through the grueling process of teaching ourselves Final Cut Pro, and arrived at this. For it being our first attempt, we're pretty excited. It was originally entitled, "America's Mainstreets: Making Travel Part of the Destination Again" but we didn't come to the conclusion that it could be done, so due to our inability to come up with anything else at the last minute, this is what we changed it to. Please watch!!

This documentary is the result of a collaborative student project undertaken by undergraduate and graduate students Erin Dorbin (M.A. History and Media), Eric LaGrange (M.A. Fine Arts), Dale Mattison and Greg Pruden at the University at Albany in the Spring of 2009.

The group set out to explore the histories of routes 20 & 9 in New York state as case studies to explain how America's changing travel patterns in the second half of the 20th century altered the landscapes along the country's two-lane highways. We were also interested in exploring how these changes in travel adversely impacted the small localized economies along these routes that were once dependent on tourism dollars to sustain themselves.

Erin Dorbin and Eric LaGrange are responsible for the completion of the Route 20 portion of the project, while Dale Mattison and Greg Pruden completed the Route 9/Frontier Town section of the documentary. Erin and Eric also have plans to continue the Route 20 portion of the documentary over the coming year.

This video is our first edit at 22 minutes for the purposes of our final class assignment. Three of us in the group had never worked with Final Cut Pro before and one of us had no idea how to use a video camera, but we figured it out (for the most part) and made it happen! Enjoy!

This is a frame from a video. You can watch it on Vimeo.

Taken on: June 25, 2009

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Sets appears in: • Route 20 Tourist Cabins • Other Route 20

Groups appears in: • Upstate New York (location required) • Albany, NY more » • Roadside America (Please read the Group Desc!) « less

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