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Sundara Lanka : the resplendent island : Sigiriya, rock fortress of Sri Lanka / Independent Television (ITN) presents ; in collboration with Tharanga International Ltd. ; script, production, and direction, H. Sarath Kumara Perera ; produced by Vijaya Ramanayake ; English script by Anoosha Thenabadu.
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture.
- Art.
- Sigiriya (Sri Lanka)--Description and travel.
- Sigiriya (Sri Lanka).
- Art--Sri Lanka--Sigiriya.
- Architecture--Sri Lanka--Sigiriya.
- Kassapa I, Ruler of Sigiriya, active 447-495.
- Kassapa.
- Travel.
- Sri Lanka--Sigiriya.
- Genre:
- Travelogues (Motion pictures)
- Documentary television programs.
- Nonfiction television programs.
- Fiction television programs.
- Travelogues (Television programs)
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (41 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Resplendent island : Sigiriya, rock fortress of Sri Lanka
- Sigiriya, rock fortress of Sri Lanka
- Place of Publication:
- [Colombo] : [ITN of Sri Lanka], [between 1990 and 1999]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- VCD; full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio) presesntation.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- Summary:
- Sigiriya, the Rock Fortress, looms rising to a height of more than 600 feet over the North Central plains of Sri Lanka. This fortress, built on the Sigiya Rock, was built by Kasyapa (ca. 477 to 495 A.D.), and reflects his aesthetics and taste for sensuous pleasures. Includes views from the summit of the Sigiya Rock. Also shows the remains of the pleasure gardens with gravity-flow springs, the Cloud Maidens immortalized in the pockets of frescoes, and graffiti etched by visitors thousands of years ago on the mirror wall leading to the giant lion's paws.
- Participant:
- Narration: V. Rajendra, Desaman Wijesinghe, Nihal Abeysooriya.
- Credits:
- Production executive, Newton Gunaratne; camera, Deepal Goonetilleke; editor, Nishantha Dias.
- Notes:
- Title from disc label.
- Contains audio, video, and animation.
- Part of summary from disc jacket.
- Not viewed.
- Sources used: videocassette container; cataloging record from OvOp field office.
- OCLC:
- 56214961
- Publisher Number:
- THA 99002 VCD Tharanga International Ltd.
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