Ken Burns’ ‘Dust Bowl’ free screening set at OSU-Tulsa
BY RITA SHERROW World Television Writer
Friday, November 02, 2012
Watch a preview: Get a sneak peek at Ken Burns’ “Dust Bowl” documentary.
The Oklahoma Educational
Television Authority
is holding a free public
preview of acclaimed
filmmaker Ken Burns’ latest
documentary “The Dust
Bowl” at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 12
at the OSU-Tulsa Student
Auditorium, 700 N.
Greenwood Ave.
There will be
limited seating.
To reserve seating
space, call 405-
841-9212 or email
abarcum@oeta.tv.
Reservations are
recommended but
not required.
Writer/producer
Dayton Duncan
will be attending
the event, and there
will be a questionand-
answer session
following the
screening.
“The Dust Bowl”
is set to air nationally at
7 p.m. Nov. 18 and 19 on
KOED, channel 11 in Tulsa.
The film, from acclaimed
filmmaker Burns (“The
Civil War,” “Jazz” and
“Baseball”) tells the stories
of people who lived through
the period, their experience
of the worst man-made ecological
disaster in American
history.
The two-part, four-hour
film documents the history
and causes of the dust bowl,
but focuses primarily on the
personal stories of survival
– how Oklahomans lived,
worked and persevered,
according to press information.
During the decade-long
drought that turned the
southern Plains into the
Dust Bowl, the hardest hit
area was centered on Boise
City, Okla., in a part of the
Panhandle formerly known
as No Man’s Land.
And the worst
storm of all hit on
Palm Sunday, April
14, 1935 — a day remembered
as Black
Sunday.
The screening is
part of the statewide
Oklahoma
Dust Bowl Project
led by OETAThe
Oklahoma
Network and the
Oklahoma Conservation
Partnership,
consisting
of the Oklahoma
Association of
Conservation
Districts (OACD), the
Oklahoma Conservation
Commission and the USDA
Natural Resources Conservation
Service (NRCS). The
Oklahoma Center for Poets
and Writers at OSU-Tulsa is
also a partner for the Tulsa
screening.
For more information on
the project, go to tulsaworld.com/oetadustbowl.
Associated Images:
A farm with huge dust clouds approaching is seen during a
dust storm on April 15, 1935, near Boise City, Okla., as seen in “The Dust Bowl” coming to PBS. Associated Press file
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