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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The woman in the iron coffin / written and directed by Adam Luria ; produced by Impossible Factual, Ltd.

Publisher, Date:

Arlington, VA : PBS Distribution, [2018]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

stamping

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

In 2011, construction workers were shocked to uncover the remains of a woman in an abandoned lot in Queens, New York. Follow forensic archaeologist Scott Warnasch and a team of historians and scientists as they investigate this woman' story, revealing a vivid picture of what life was like for free African American people in the North.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: TV-PG.

Subjects:

Mummies -- New York (State) -- New York.

Smallpox -- Patients -- New York (State) -- New York.

Free African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

African Americans -- History -- 19th century.

African American women -- 19th century.

Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- 19th century.

Other Author:

Luria, Adam, screenwriter, television director.

Warnasch, Scott C., on-screen participant, consultant.

Sanders, Jay O., 1953- narrator.

Impossible Factual (Firm), production company.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), broadcaster.

PBS Distribution (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Contained in (work): Secrets of the dead (Television program)

Notes:

Wide screen (16x9).

Originally produced as a 2018 episode of Secrets of the dead.

Narrated by Jay O. Sanders ; director of photography, Adrian Musto ; editor, Cinzia Baldessari ; music, Julian Guidetti ; lead consultant, Scott Warnasch.

Scott Warnasch, Carla Peterson, Jerry Conlogue, Clarence Taylor, Rhonda Quinn, Joe Mullins.

DVD, NTSC; widescreen (16x9), stereo, region 1.

In English with optional English SDH subtitles.

ISBN:

9781531706470

1531706479

9781531706470 : DVD

1531706479 : DVD

Publisher Number:

SD61802

Other Number:

1059470416

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

763400

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 973.0496 Woman in