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Show v:::::::v:v:::::v:v:v:v:x:v:v:::v:v:x: 1C sea I res i Kvi KttA ::? M :-- :..'! ls,iula.......n..J8wBL Week of Sept. 22-2- 8, 1990 PBS to air 'Civil War' series - Ken WALPOLE, N.H. (AP) Burns sprinted up a Gettysburg slope in the footsteps of Gen. Pickett's screaming Confederates and burst into tears after climbing the hilltop wall that was the high-watmark of the Confederacy. He mourned the deaths of "friends" ranging from Abraham Lincoln to ordinary soldiers who dropped on battlefields 125 years ago. And he was kept awake by the deafening sounds and vivid images of Americans killing Americans. After years of work, the award-winnin- g filmmaker is bringing the sights, sounds, words and emotions of the Civil War into millions of living rooms in a landmark public television miniseries. "We've made a film that has attempted to tell the whole story and acknowledge that it is as dramatic as Hollywood or anyone could dream up," Burns said. "The Civil War," an documentary, will be broadcast on five nights beginning Sunday at 7 p.m. on KUED, Channel 7. KBYU starts the series beginning Monday night. The boyish-lookin- g said emotions are the key to his work and to seeing the war, in which 620,000 Americans died, in a new light. er ur "We were constantly made aware of how poignant this story was, how tragic it was," he said in his hilltop editing studio in south western New Hampshire. "The into tears with the sense of this depth and profundity of that emo- being the most important motion is what affected me more ment," he said. than anything else." Burns hopes his series will strip Burns tapped the emotions by away the "gallant, bloodless peering into the innermost myth" of the Civil War and show thoughts of his subjects, from that television can entertain and Presidents Lincoln and Jefferson inform at the same time. Davis to ordinary soldiers who His cinematography brings still died in the mud. Their diaries and photographs alive, dragging viewletters to loved ones are the script. ers along as frightened soldiers "We get to know two dozen feel their way forward looking for people so intimately that we had the enemy. In Gettsyburg and to take one of the final half hours battle scenes, his zooming, of the film to consider their fates," cutting and panning move viewers he said. through a kaleidoscope of sights "To have met this man, Abra- toward victory, death or panicked ham Lincoln, and gotten, to know retreat. him, I consider one of the great Burns studied and recorded honors of my life. To have met sounds of the birds and insects the Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. soldiers would have heard, and Grant and countless minor soldiers just how it sounded when 200 who could write and speak and cannons fired at the same time. and kill and die has If the images are powerful, the fight been the greatest thing." words cut even more deeply. RathBurns traversed the country er than use actors, as most docuseeking information. For authenmentary filmmakers do, Burns ticity, he filmed at battlefields on uses only their voices. the anniversaries of the fighting. Here is part of a soldier's letter At times he had to stop. home after the second battle of "I would dream so vividly about Bull Run: "Sunday, a soldier in the battles, that it was too much," Company A died and was buried. he said. Everything went on as if nothing At Gettysburg, where Lee had happened, for death is so brought his army as far north as it common that little sentiment is would get, and where George Pickwasted. It is not like death at ett led his doomed charge, emohome." tions overcame him. Burns, who studied at Hamp"I ran the last several hundred shire College in Amherst, Mass., yards of Pickett's charge and went also did the documentary "The up and over the wall and burst Congress." m lf you do not subscribe to Cable TV, you can get reception from the FREE stations, 2, 4, 5, 7, 11, 13 and 14 designated in the listings with a white on black code... It you do subscribe to Cable TV, the following guide will help you locate the available stations in Provo and Orem. For other cities, contact your cable company to determine the positions of the various stations on your dial. Orem froa Television slitlons listen in Itie Herald Enfcrtiiner 3 KUTV, Salt Lake City (NBC) OKTVX, Salt Lake City (ABC) O KSL, Salt Lake City (CBS) O KUED, U of U Salt Lake City KBYU, BYU, Provo KSTU, Salt Lake City KXIV, Salt Lake City (AMC), American Movie Classics (CBN), CBN Cable Network (DIS), Disney Channel (ESPN), Sports Network (HBO). 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Weather 6:1 5AM 6:30AM O Mister Rogers (CC) (R) CD Hooked on Aerobics CD CD 0 k ;f ( AP Laserphoto Union soldier Elisha Hunt Rhodes was an unsung American who left behind a moving account of his exploits during Ihe Civil War. His story is part of "The Civil War," an PBS miniseries which will air beginning Sunday night at 7 p.m. on KUED, Channel 7, and Monday at 8 p.m. on KEYU. 11-ho- ur Pro9rams presented each weekday VCCR(iciy S 5:OCAM I Flintstones Super Mario Bros Super Show (CBN) Littles (NIK) Don't Just Sit There CD CD (CBN) 700 Club (COUG) Infotext (DIS) Dumbo's Circus (LIFE) Jane Wallace (NIK) Eureekas Castle (TDC) Varied Programs (TNT) Movie (USA) Lost in Space (WGN) Magnum, P.I. 8:05AM (WTBS) Movie 8:30AM Ci Figuring It Out CD Jim Hcnson's Muppet Babies (CC) CD Mighty Mouse (COUG) Varied Programs (DIS) Welcome to Pooh Corner (TNT) Fraggle Rock (WGN) Bozo (In Stereo) 6:35AM (WTBS) Bewitched O Today (CC) (In Stereo) Good Morning America tCC) Zoobiiee Zoo CD Captain Kangaroo (CC) CD Tiny Toons 7:O0AM Q Q Heathcliff (CBN) Our House (DIS) Mousercise (LIFE) What Every Baby Knows (NASH) VideoMorning (In Stereo) CD 9:00AM (NIK) Lassie (TDC) Assignment: Discovery (TNT) Muppets 7:05AM (WTBS) Little House on the Prairie 7:30AM O Sesame Street CD Size Small Island CD Teenage Mutant Ninja CD Wake. Rattle & Roll (CC) (R) Turtles (CC) (DIS) Good Morning, Mickey! (LIFE) What Every Baby Knows (NIK) Maya the Bee (WGN) Bewitched O Focus Sesame Street (CC) (R) CD Peter Pan & the Pirates C3 Merrie Melodies CD (In Live O Generations Regis & Kathie Lee Price Is Right Applied Mathematics CD Mister Rogers (CC) (R) CD Police Academy (CC) CD Dick Van Dyke (CBN) Heart to Heart (DIS) Donald Duck Presents (ESPN) Getting Fit (LIFE) Spenser: For Hire (NIK) Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant O Show (TNT) My Favorite Martian 8:00AM O O Stereo) (USA) Divorce Court (WGN) Joan Rivers (In Stereo! 9:1 5AM O Varied Programs 9.30AM Q Marsha Warfield CD Today's Special (Continued on TV2) |