Paradise Saved

Photographer George Gentry has captured on film the magnificence of one of Georgia’s most beautiful barrier islands. At the same time, Don Smith and Forrest Sawyer teamed up to produce a telling documentary which examined the pros and cons of a National Park Service’s decision to increase the visiting limits for Cumberland Island from 300 to 1400 persons per day. Thus, viewers of WAGA-TV’s Paradise Saved were treated to a quality of visual beauty not often seen on television and, at the same time, were informed, enlightened, and challenged concerning the problems of retaining a great natural heritage and a diminishing resource—the unspoiled beauty of the Atlantic Coast.