BACKROADS OF MONTANA
Volume 1

By Montana PBS

Amusing and amazing tales of life and times in rural Montana.

This video includes the following episodes:

Episode One:  “Virgelle to Victor” (1991)

Episode Two: “Custer to Columbia Falls” (1991)

Episode Three: “Polaris to Joliet” (1992)

Episode Four: “Miles City to the Missions” (1993)

BACKROADS OF MONTANA
Volume 2

By Montana PBS

Amusing and amazing tales of life and times in rural Montana.

This video includes the following episodes:

Episode Five: “The Golden Triangle” (1994)

Episode Six: “Scobey to West Yellowstone” (1995)

Episode Seven: “Havre to Hamilton” (1995)

Episode Eight: “The Badlands” (1996)

REMEMBERING THE COLUMBIA GARDENS

By Montana PBS

Using historical photographs, rare home movies, and firsthand accounts, the history and myth of the beloved amusement park in Butte, Montana, is recreated. Family picnics, scary roller coaster rides, cracking the bar on the cowboy swings and beautiful carousel horses. They’re all great memories of Butte’s historic Columbia Gardens—memories highlighted in this video. Using historical photos, rare home movies, and firsthand accounts, MontanaPBS recreates the history and myth of the beloved amusement park built by Copper King and former U.S. Senator William Clark. The park operated from 1899 to 1973.

SILENCE & SOLITUDE:
Yellowstone’s Winter Wilderness - DVD

By Montana PBS

Powerful, brutal, beautiful, and at times, enchanting, winter in Yellowstone National Park is a world unlike any other. It is a season both abstract and profound, where super-heated water erupts into arctic air, where wildlife pushes snow in a constant struggle to survive, and where silence and solitude dominate the park’s deep wilderness. Photographer Tom Murphy has experienced Yellowstone’s winter wilderness as few others have, skiing far into the backcountry with heavy camera gear, an uncanny ability to weather cold and snow, and an artist’s eye for the sublime. His photographs reveal a majestic land where the air is clean and clear and where a wolf’s throaty howl carries for miles on a still day.

For two years, Tom had the use of two video cameras, loaned to him by Carol Truez and Jon Geiss. Carol and Jon used the spring, summer and autumn footage for a video/DVD called "Discovering Yellowstone". Several years after "Discovering Yellowstone" was finished, Tom went to PBS with approximately 25 hours of footage of Yellowstone in winter that Carol and Jon had not used. PBS combined this digital footage with many of Tom's stills from his new book Silence and Solitude in Dec 2002 and produced a video which has been aired all over the US by over 100 PBS stations. The DVD, which was released in Dec 2004, includes an interview with Tom and many new Yellowstone winter still images.

Tom's videography and still photography was nominated for an Emmy in this DVD produced by Montana PBS.

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