Old fashioned storytelling, mixing history and visuals.

Old Strand Video Production has been replaced by SavingAmericana.com.
Please note, we no longer sell DVD's. Programs are being uploaded to the SavingAmerican.com website, or you can send us an e-mail at [email protected].

The key to our stories: The People. We have launched a major new project called "Saving Americana." It will focus on the men and women who are working to protect the old stories, old buildings, photos, music , and the things that make up our past.
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"Hunting the old Pioneer Trails" tells the story of volunteers with Trails West and the Oregon-California Trail Association, who research and then mark the emigrant trails used by the Wagon Trains in the 18 hundreds. 
 Using diaries of the actual pioneers they have found the old trails, and some of the historic artifacts left behind.  They have also found some of the graves of the pioneers along the route.  It's living history using a  shovel, a compass and the notes of the pioneers.
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"Saving Mission Control," introduces us to a unique team that has spent years saving and restoring Apollo Mission Control in Houston. The goal: to make it look EXACTLY how it looked on July 20, 1969, the day America first landed on the moon. The $5 million project was finished just in time for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Says Apollo Flight Director Gene Kranz of the effort, "Overwhelming. All of a sudden you were 50 years younger, I wanted to get to work."

The team, made up of architects, historians, technicians, engineers, electricians and paint historians from all over the country, have an amazing story to tell about Saving History.