An upstate New York businessman who was considered a pioneer in the amusement park industry is having his story told in a documentary film.
WMHT-TV, the Albany area's PBS affiliate, is partnering with Albany-based Working Pictures to make a documentary chronicling the life of Charles Wood and the impact he had on the development of theme parks around the world.
A native of western New York, Wood was a driving force in the growth of New York's Lake George region as a popular tourist destination in the decades after World War II.
Wood opened Storytown in 1954, a year before Walt Disney opened Disneyland in Southern California. Wood's original theme park, located a few miles south of Lake George, is now known as the Great Escape, a Six Flags property.
Wood died in 2004 at 90.
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