Jun 01 2010
The First Encampment to Air on PBS in August
What were you doing at age 16? I’ll bet it wasn’t quite as exciting and educational as what Blake Cortright, a 16-year-old Eagle Scout from New York has been up to.
Blake is a young film maker has wrapped production on “The First Encampment”, a 30-minute documentary telling the story of the first Boy Scout camp in the United States, held in August 1910 at Silver Bay YMCA Camp in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. Chief Scout Executive James E West, Daniel Carter Beard, and Ernest Thompson Seton were in attendance.
Blake worked on the film with longtime scouter Bob James and professional Voice Talent John Kearney.
“The First Encampment” has been picked up by PBS station WCNY and will air Sunday, August 8th at 3 PM.
Interested in getting “The First Encampment” aired near you?
Here’s some information for you on how to do so:
WMHT has a “broadcast ready” half hour show show that can be sent through the public television inter-connect system to any station in America. Some people have asked how to get it broadcast in their area. If any Public Television station contacts us at http://www.thefirstencampment.com, we are happy to give them the rights to air the show. There is no cost to the station. Then WMHT can send the documentary to their station through their networking system. To find the PBS affiliate in your area go to following link and put in your zip code.
http://www.pbs.org/stationfinder/stationfinder_relocalize.html
From here you can get a contact name for the station. If enough people request the First Encampment, perhaps more stations will carry the documentary. Always point station managers to the website http://www.thefirstencampment.com so that they have some information as to what the documentary is about.