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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Men at lunch / Sónta Films ; a film by Seán Ó Cualáin ; producer, Eamonn Ó Cualáin ; director, Seán Ó Cualáin ; scriptwriter, Niall Murphy.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : First Run Features ; [2013]

Description:

1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD-R video Region 1

Summary:

In New York City, 1932, a photograph, "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," is taken during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. In it, eleven workmen are taking their lunch break while casually perched along a steel girder. For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men and the photographer that immortalized them remained a mystery: their stories, lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself. Then, at the start of the 21st century, the photograph finally began to give up some of its secrets.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Rockefeller Center -- History.

Iron and steel workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Pictorial works.

Foreign workers -- New York (State) -- New York.

Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York.

Skyscrapers -- Design and construction.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

New York (N.Y.) -- History.

Other Author:

Ó Cualáin, Seán.

Ó Cualáin, Eamonn.

Murphy, Niall.

Burns, Ric.

Sónta Films (Firm)

First-Run Features (Firm)

Other Title:

Also known as: Lón sa Spéir

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2012.

Special features: The 1929 crash; Rockfeller Center; Joe Woolhead on September 11, 2001; The inspiration of 'Lunch atop a skyscraper'; Ric Burns on 'Lunch atop a skyscraper'; previews of other films.

Editor, Daíthi Connaughton; director of photography, Réamonn Macdonncha; composer, Mike McGoldrick.

Interviewees: Paddy O'Shaughnessy, Pat Glynn, Peter Quinn, Jim Rasenberger, Ric Burns Woolhead.

DVD-R, NTSC, all regions.

ISBN:

9786315233739

6315233732

Publisher Number:

FRF 915779D

Other Number:

861520704

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

393442

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 305.8 Men at l