Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Super bridge / a production of Peace River Films in association with WGBH for Nova ; produced and directed by Neil Goodwin ; written by Thomas Friedman & Neil Goodwin.

Publisher, Date:

[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation ; [S. Burlington, Vt.] : WGBH Boston Video, [2007]

Description:

1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Follows every phase of the four-year construction of the Clark Bridge that spans the Mississippi River at Alton, Illinois using what is known as cable-stayed design, an innovative variation on the suspension bridge.

Series:

WGBY DVD Collection

Subjects:

Cable-stayed bridges -- Design and construction.

Clark Bridge (Alton, Ill., and West Alton, Mo. : 1994- )

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Documentary television programs.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Other Author:

Goodwin, Neil.

Friedman, Thomas.

Holbrook, Hal.

Peace River Films.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

WGBH Educational Foundation.

WGBH Video (Firm)

Other Title:

Nova (Television program)

Notes:

Originally produced as a documentary film in 1997. Broadcast as an episode of the television program Nova in 2007.

Special feature: DVD-ROM access to the Nova website.

Editors, Michel Chalufour, Lani Yamamoto ; music, Steven Schoenberg ; animation, Larry McInnes.

Narrator: Hal Holbrook.

Enhanced DVD, all regions, full screen (4:3) presentation ; Dolby Digital, NTSC.

System requirements for DVD-ROM features: Computer capable of playing DVD movies; Windows 95 or higher (or a Mac with 0S 9.0 or higher). Will not work in a CD-ROM drive.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

The foundations -- The towers -- The Illinois approach -- The cable stays -- The road deck -- Closing the gaps -- The race to the finish.

ISBN:

1593757425

9781593757427

Publisher Number:

WG27519

Other Number:

85895573

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

195318

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 624.23 Super br