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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Sputnik mania [videorecording] / a film by David Hoffman ; directed by David Hoffman ; produced by Eric Reid with David Hoffman, John V. Barrett ; written by David Hoffman & Paul Dickson.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, N.Y.] : History : Distributed by New Video, c2008.

Description:

2 videodiscs (ca. 87 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

On Oct. 4, 1957, the USSR announced to an unsuspecting world that it had launched the first man-made object ever to successfully orbit earth. Americans were stunned and then terrified. Americans asked themselves what had happened to our academic and technological superiority; could the Soviets overtake us; could their satellites be used as weapons of mass destruction? Recalls the impact the satellite had on the American psyche, and how the shock catapulted the nation from complacency into action.

Subjects:

Sputnik satellites -- History.

Artificial satellites, Russian -- Political aspects.

Astronautics and state -- United States -- Public opinion.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

Other Author:

Hoffman, David (David Michael), 1941-

Reid, Eric.

Barrett, John Vincent.

Dickson, Paul.

Schreiber, Liev.

Dickson, Paul. Sputnik.

History (Television network)

New Video Group.

Notes:

Documentary.

Based on the book: Sputnik : the shock of the century / by Paul Dickson.

Editor, John Vincent Barrett.

Narrator, Liev Schreiber.

DVD; Dolby digital stereo.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

[disc 1]. Feature film (87 min.) -- [disc 2]. Bonus. Alert today, alive tomorrow (16 min.) ; Yankee go home (36 min.) ; Communist society (30 min.) ; Laica (6 min.) ; Missiles, missiles, missiles (7 min.).

ISBN:

1422917207

9781422917206

Publisher Number:

AAAE118880

Other Number:

276621507

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

234199

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 629.46 Sputnik

Medium:

[videorecording]