National Trust Feature 1930s Video On YouTube

A 1938 video on the need for National Parks shown in UK cinemas in the run up to World War II is still pulling in the viewers at the National Trust's YouTube channel. One of 300 uploads the 1938 video depicts Eskdale shortly after it was saved from forestation by the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, along with early film from America's Yosemite National Park and the Kruger national park in South Africa. It was another 11 years before the UK's first national park, The peak District, was created but 70 years after the video many of the areas first identified as needing protection have now become National Parks - the biggest absentee being coastal areas, and particularly the south west coast of devon and Cornwall.

More up to date video contributions include children's views of our national parks and how to protect them in the future., Room To Breathe, a video highlighting Parks' importance to city dwellers, and "On the Move" - depicting the plethora of outdoor pursuits from walking to kayaking and horse riding to abseiling for the disabled.

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