Mount Rushmore [videorecording] / written and produced by Andy Thomas ; producer, Bruce Nash ; Jaffe Productions in association with Hearst Entertainment Television.
2007
F657.R8 M686 2007
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Title
Mount Rushmore [videorecording] / written and produced by Andy Thomas ; producer, Bruce Nash ; Jaffe Productions in association with Hearst Entertainment Television.
Uniform Title
Modern marvels (Television program)
ISBN
0767097726 (container)
9780767097727 (container)
0767097165 (boxed set)
9780767097161 (boxed set)
9780767097727 (container)
0767097165 (boxed set)
9780767097161 (boxed set)
Publication Details
[New York] : A & E Television Networks : New Video [distributor], c2007.
Language
English
Description
1 videodisc (46 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Call Number
F657.R8 M686 2007
Distributor No.
AAE-77267 A & E Television Networks (container)
AAE-77208 A & E Television Networks (boxed set)
AAE-77208 A & E Television Networks (boxed set)
Summary
Follows the quest of the sculptor Gutzon Borglum to create Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota Mount Rushmore. Describes how Borglum whipped American patriotism into a frenzy to elicit public support and secure financing for his dream. Shows how, over the course of fifteen years, 350 men poured their sweat into Borglum's vision using drills and explosives to chisel the stone faces of the American presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt into the massive granite cliff.
Note
Originally broadcast on the History Channel in 1996 as an episode of the television program Modern marvels.
Dolby digital stereo.
Issued as part of an 8-disc boxed set entitled Modern marvels : architectural wonders.
Dolby digital stereo.
Issued as part of an 8-disc boxed set entitled Modern marvels : architectural wonders.
System Details Note
DVD.
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Table of Contents
The brainstorm
The Coolidge connection
The monument takes shape
The Depression sets in
The doorstep of history
Patriotic pilgrimage.
The Coolidge connection
The monument takes shape
The Depression sets in
The doorstep of history
Patriotic pilgrimage.