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Chicago : city of the century
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"City of the century tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world". -- Container. Chicago by 'L" is part tr...
"City of the century tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world". -- Container. Chicago by 'L" is part travelogue, part history, and part tour of Chicago's neighborhoods by 'L', Chicago's elevated train.
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- Creator
- a co-production of WGBH Boston and WTTW Chicago in association with the Chicago Historical Society for American Experience ; produced, written and directed by Austin Hoyt
- Included Title
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- American experience (Television program)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Hoyt, Austin
- Stiers, David Ogden
- Chin, Michael
- Bacon, Michael
- Hopkins, Terry
- Miller, Donald L., 1944- City of the century
- WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
- WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
- Chicago Historical Society
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Window to the World Communications, Inc
- PBS Home Video
- Publication
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- Widescreen version
- [United States] : WGBH Educational Foundation : Window to the World Communications, Inc. : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2003]
- Physical Details
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- 4 videodiscs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, black and white with color ; 4 3/4 in
- ISBNs
- 9780780641419, 0780641418
- OCLC
- ocm51562903
- Credits
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- David Ogden Stiers, narrator
- Camera, Michael Chin, Terry Hopkins ; music, Michael Bacon
- Title from container.
- "PBS DVD Gold."
- Based on the book City of the Century by Donald L. Miller.
- Special features: Chicago by 'L': touring the neighborhoods; Behind the scenes interviews with producers Austin Hoyt, Patricia Garcia Rios and historian Donald Miller; Trivia questions: Do you know Chicago?
- DVD, Dolby surround stereo., Region 1 encoding.
- Closed-captioned.
- Disc 1. Mudhole to metropolis / (edited by Bill Lattanzi) -- Disc 2. The revolution has begun / (edited by Bill Lattanzi, Jon Neuburger) -- Disc 3. Battle for Chicago / (edited by Jon Neuburger). -- Disc 4. Chicago by 'L': touring the neighborhoods / (produced by Kelly Luchtman ; written by Geoffrey Baer) and additional interviews