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Promotional Video claims Horseshoe Falls for U.S. - Accurate?

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posted on Oct, 29 2007 @ 09:31 AM
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Horseshoe Falls - Always been known as the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls. When you want to see the Horseshoe, you need to cross the border into Canada.

Simple Question? How does it now belong to U.S.?


A Disney-produced promotional video released last week by the departments of State and Homeland Security highlights majestic American landscapes. About four minutes into the seven-minute video, Welcome: Portraits of America, viewers are treated to the impressive sight and sound of water roaring over Niagara Falls.

In showing the natural wonder, Disney's filmmakers, however, chose the Horseshoe Falls, the only one of Niagara's three waterfalls to lie almost entirely on the Canadian side of the border separating New York State from Ontario.

Making matters worse, a visitor to the U.S. would not even be able to get the same view of the falls in the video because the scene was shot from a vantage point in Canada, according to Paul Gromosiak, a Niagara Falls, N.Y., historian and author.

Also, he said the video leaves out the two cascades that actually are on U.S. territory, the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls.

"This is not the United States, this is 100 per cent Canada, shot from the Canadian side," Gromosiak said. "This is an insult.''

The distinction between the U.S. and Canadian sides is clear to most people who have visited the Falls.

But it seems to have escaped the notice of the producers and U.S. officials, who presumably vetted the video.


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posted on Oct, 29 2007 @ 09:44 AM
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Link to the video

you can find it at the following sites:

Video available at Discover America: www.discoveramerica.com...

Video available at State Department: www.travel.state.gov...

Video available at Customs and Border Protection: /2jjcyk

Karen Hughes' State Department blog posting: www.blogs.state.gov...



 
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