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Title:

Men at lunch [DVD] / a documentary by Seán Ó Cualáin ; producer, Eamonn Ó Cualáin ; director, Seán Ó Cualáin.

Format:

[DVD] /

Publisher:

First Run Features ;

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

1 DVD (67 minutes) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Rockefeller Center--History.
Iron and steel workers--New York.--New York.
Foreign workers--New York.--New York.
Photographers--New York.--New York.
Skyscrapers--Design and construction.
New York (N.Y.)--History.
Documentary films.

Other Authors:

Ó Cualáin, Seán, film director.
Flanagan, Fionnula, 1941- narrator.

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2012. Special features: The 1929 crash; Rockefeller Center; Joe Woolhead on September 11, 2001; The inspiration of 'Lunch atop a skyscraper'; Ric Burns on 'Lunch atop a skyscraper'. Narrator, Fionnula Flanagan.

Summary:

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.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)868293140

UPC:

720229915779

Locations:

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)