Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

New York : a documentary film / a Steeplechase Films production for the American Experience in association with WGBH Boston, Thirteen/WNET in New York, and the New-York Historical Society ; produced by Lisa Ades and Ric Burns ; directed by Ric Burns ; co-director, Lisa Ades ; written by Ric Burns and James Sanders.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

8 videodiscs (approximately 1040 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

This series chronicles the history of New York City from its beginnings in 1609 as a Dutch trading post, through the depression, onto the turbulent years of change in the following decades after WWII, to its present day status as one of the most important and influencial cities in the world. The final episode was created in response to the destruction of the World Trade Center.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

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

New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.

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

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Burns, Ric.

Sanders, James, 1955-

Ades, Lisa.

Ness, Marilyn.

Stiers, David Ogden.

Steeplechase Films Inc.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

New-York Historical Society.

PBS Home Video.

Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Other Title:

American experience (Television program)

Notes:

DVD release of a 1999-2003 television production.

Ep. 1-5 aired in 1999, ep. 6-7 in 2001, and ep. 8 in 2003.

Special features: Charlie Rose interview with Ric Burns; additional interviews with Donald Trump and others; archival motion pictures; original trailer; deleted scenes; outtakes ; interview with Ric Burns on making of ep. 8.

Cinematography, Buddy Squires and Allen Moore; music, Brian Keane; editor, Li-Shin Yu; narrator, David Ogden Stiers; co-producers, Steve Rivo (ep. 6 & 7) and Marilyn Ness (ep. 8).

Featured interviews with: Martin Scorsese, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Fran Lebowitz, Mayor Rudolph Guiliani, Former Mayor Ed Koch, and others.

DVD; Region 1 encoding; Dolby digital; ep. 1-7 full screen version; ep. 8 widescreen version.

Closed captioned.

Emmy Award: 2001, Outstanding Achievement in Non-fiction Programming; Picture Editing.

Contents:

The country and the city -- Order and disorder -- Sunshine and shadow -- The power and the people -- Cosmopolis -- City of tomorrow -- The city and the world -- The center of the world.

ISBN:

1415702462

9781415702468

1415702462

Publisher Number:

88581

Other Number:

56629529

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

778544

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 974.71 New York