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Title:

Hoover dam [videorecording] : the making of a monument / a Firstlight Pictures production for The American Experience ; WGBH Boston ; written and directed by Stephen Stept ; co-producer John Heus ; edited by John J. Martin.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

PBS Video distributor,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Dams--United States--Design and construction.
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)

Other Authors:

Stept, Stephen.
Firstlight Productions, Inc.
PBS Video.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Other Titles:

American experience (Television program)

Notes:

Originally produced as a segment of the television program, The American Experience. Narrator, Peter Coyote.

Summary:

The dramatic story of how an ambitious, hard-driving engineer turned a ragtag army of unemployed into the nation's most celebrated workforce. Archival footage and photographs, including interviews with witnesses and historians.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40779469

Locations:

FQPC224 -- Strawberry Point Public Library (Strawberry Point) — VCR 627