On Saturday, August 14 at 9:30am at the Huletts Landing Fire House, The Federation of Huletts Landing is presenting Joseph W. Zarzynski and a discussion about his documentary called \u201cWooden Bones: The Sunken Fleet of 1758\u201d. Please see the attached press release and website (www.woodenbones.com) If you haven’t had a chance to get a copy of this DVD, you’ll want to!<\/p>\n
Title: Anatomy of an Archaeology Documentary–“Wooden Bones: The Sunken Fleet of 1758” NEWS RELEASE\u2014For Immediate Release <\/p>\n Lake George, NY Documentary Wins Film Festival Maritime Heritage Award <\/p>\n Bateaux Below, Inc., a not-for-profit group that studies historic shipwrecks in Lake George, NY, has announced that Gray\u2019s Reef Ocean Film Festival in Savannah, Georgia has chosen \u201cWooden Bones\u2014The Sunken Fleet of 1758\u201d as one of their official film festival selections. Furthermore, the Lake George-related documentary is one of two joint winners of the film festival\u2019s prestigious \u201cMaritime Heritage Category\u201d award. \u201cWooden Bones\u2014The Sunken Fleet of 1758\u201d is a 58 min. long DVD documentary (www.woodenbones.com), a Pepe Productions (Glens Falls, NY) and Bateaux Below (Wilton, NY) documentary collaboration. The DVD was released in May 2010. The Gray\u2019s Reef Ocean Film Festival is September 17-19 at the Savannah College of Art and Design. The NOAA-sponsored film festival reports that 90 films were submitted and only 33 were selected for showing. <\/p>\n \u201cWooden Bones\u201d examines Lake George\u2019s Sunken Fleet of 1758 when the British deliberately sank over 260 warships to protect them over the winter of 1758-1759 from their enemy, the French. The documentary investigates the history and underwater archaeological study of the lake\u2019s sunken bateau-class warships, a sunken 1960 sub built to photograph British shipwrecks, and a 1758-constructed military dock found in Lake George\u2019s shallows. Glens Falls, NY documentary filmmaker Peter Pepe directed the DVD and underwater archaeologist Joseph W. Zarzynski of Wilton, NY wrote it. The award-winning documentary was four years in production. For more information on the documentary and to view the trailer, consult the web site: www.woodenbones.com <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Saturday, August 14 at 9:30am at the Huletts Landing Fire House, The Federation of Huletts Landing is presenting Joseph W. Zarzynski and a discussion about his documentary called \u201cWooden Bones: The Sunken Fleet of 1758\u201d. Please see the attached press release and website (www.woodenbones.com) If you haven’t had a chance to get a copy … <\/p>\n
\nPresenter: Joseph W. Zarzynski, Underwater Archaeologist (Bateaux Below, Inc.) <\/strong><\/p>\n