Tells the story of how the longest, most sophisticated electric subway in the world was built. Interviews with experts on nineteenth-century technology and New York social history discuss how the construction dramatically changed New York City

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Format:	Video VHS
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	[Alexandria, Va.] PBS Video [1999?]
Ausgabe:	PBS video index version
Schlagworte:	Subways / New York (State) / New York / History Subways / Design and construction / History Transportation / New York (State) / New York / History Documentary films Films for the hearing impaired Architektur Geschichte New York (N.Y.) / Buildings, structures, etc / History / 1898-1951
Zusammenfassung:	Tells the story of how the longest, most sophisticated electric subway in the world was built. Interviews with experts on nineteenth-century technology and New York social history discuss how the construction dramatically changed New York City
Beschreibung:	VHS format. - Originally produced in 1997 as a segment of the television series: The American experience. - Specially prepared set enhanced by PBS with time code visible on the screen. - Supplemented by the "PBS VIDEOdatabase of America's History & Culture Merged Index" which provides subject references to specific videocassette volume numbers within the series and to specific locations within individual videocassettes according to on-screen counter numbers indicating number of minutes and seconds elapsed within a specific referenced videocassette. - "PBS Index"--Container. - Curriculum resources available on database for video. Videos in database referenced by grade level, academic area, historical period, and standards correlation. Selected lesson plans for instructors available on database. - PBS Video database accessed via World Wide Web Host, David McCullough ; narrator, Len Cariou Photography, Greg Andracke ; editor, Donna Marino ; music, Brian Keane
Beschreibung:	1 videocassette (60 min.) sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in