The great San Francisco earthquake
(DVD)
Contributors
Published
[Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, [2006].
Edition
Full screen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Cambria Library - Adult DVD - Adult Audiovisual | 979.46105 | In Transit |
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Published
[Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, [2006].
Format
DVD
Edition
Full screen presentation.
Language
English
UPC
783421400696
Notes
General Note
Videodisc release of a 2005 segment of the television program, American experience.
General Note
Special features: access to the American experience web site.
Creation/Production Credits
Camera, Michael Anderson ; editor, George Waite ; music, David Koblitz.
Participants/Performers
Narrator, F. Murray Abraham.
Description
In the early 1900s, San Francisco stood as a proud and flourishing symbol of America's recent conquest of the once-wild West. But on April 19, 1906, the city would experience an awesome reminder of the uncontrollable forces lying dormant just beneath the splendors of its cosmopolitan surface. Thirty times more powerful than the temblor that decimated northern California in 1989, this earthquake measured a ground-wrenching 8.3 on the Richter scale, resulting in the worst catastrophe suffered by a North American city in the twentieth century. Captured in rare, newly restored movie footage from the period and the personal accounts of eyewitnesses, The great San Francisco earthquake is a breathtaking record of nature's unimaginable might and the survivors' equally impressive determination to rebuild their city and their lives.
Target Audience
MPAA: Not rated.
System Details
DVD format; recorded in Dolby digital.
Language
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
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