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Rachel Carson's Silent spring / [presented by] WGBH/Boston, WNET/New York, and KCET/Los Angeles ; a Peace River Films production ; Neil Goodwin, producer/writer.
LIBRA VHS QH545.P4 R27 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964. Silent spring.
- Carson, Rachel.
- Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
- Pesticides.
- Pesticides--Toxicology.
- Pesticides and wildlife.
- Insect pests--Biological control.
- Insect pests.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Television programs.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide
- 1/2 in.
- Other Title:
- Silent spring
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Education Foundation, WNET/Thirteen, and Peace River Films ; [Alexandria, VA] : distributed by PBS Video, [1993]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Combines excerpts from letters, books, television programs, and archival footage with interviews to create a vivid picture of Carson and the controversy surrounding her book. The film examines a conflict that the book brought into focus: the conflict between many who believed that technology could cure all ills and that nature could be controlled and others such as Rachel Carson who refused to believe that serious damage to nature was inevitable and represented a reasonable price to pay for "progress."
- Participant:
- Readings by Meryl Streep ; Alex Chadwick, narrator.
- Credits:
- Host, David McCullough ; cinematographers, Rick Brandt. ... [et al.]. Michael Chalufour, editor ; Sheldon Mirowitz, music.
- Notes:
- At head of title: The American experience.
- Originally broadcast on the PBS television series The American experience February 8, 1993.
- ISBN:
- 0793609097
- OCLC:
- 31653733
- Publisher Number:
- AMEX-511 PBS Video
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