# The Vanishing Frontier

Documentary showing the challenges faced by North Carolina’s mountain communities in adapting to modern life. According to Elmer Oettinger, North Carolina author Wilma Dykeman found that The Vanishing Frontier “explores, reveals, and interprets with cool intelligence and a warm sympathy the paradoxes, problems, and promises of our mountain region.” Note: The film brought to the screen information from a 1962 Ford Foundation survey. Also known as The Dying Frontier .

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1964
- By: WBTV (Charlotte, NC)
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/the-vanishing-frontier-1964)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.