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Subways in America / produced by Powderhouse Productions for Discovery Channel ; produced and directed by Courtney Hayes ; written by Ed Fields, Alan Lindgren.
LIBRA DVD TF847.U6 S83 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Fields, Ed, author.
- Lindgren, Alan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Subways--United States.
- Subways.
- Subways--New York (State)--History.
- History.
- New York (State).
- Subways--California--San Francisco--History.
- California--San Francisco.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Television series.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (51 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Silver Spring, MD : Discovery Communications, Inc. : Discovery Channel, 2003.
- System Details:
- DVD; hi fi.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Focusing primarily on the Big Apple (New York), this program takes an in-depth look at the past, present and future of subways in America. Technological challenges including boring tunnels through Manhattan schist and laying flexible tunnel tubes in San Francisco Bay are spotlighted, as are safety issues such as fire containment. The terrorist attack at Ground Zero is also considered. Archival and 3-D animation are used throughout.
- Participant:
- Commentary by historian Clifton Hood; Lawrence Reuter, president of MTA/NYC Transit; Thomas Margro, general manager of San Francisco's BART; and others.
- Narrator, Joseph Giotta.
- Credits:
- Camera, Stephen McCarthy ... [et al.]; editor, Shady Hartshorne; visual effects coordinator, Dean Gula; visual effects lead animator, Jason Lazaroff.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as a segment of the television series Extreme engineering.
- OCLC:
- 53175194
- Publisher Number:
- 687426 Discovery Channel
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