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The secret of Tuxedo Park [videorecording] / by Conant, Jennet,consultant.(CARDINAL)350954; Fedde, R. A.,editor of moving image work.; Habtezghi, Nazenet,1977-television producer.; Phillips, Tom,composer (expression)(CARDINAL)270846; Rapley, Rob,television director,television producer,screenwriter.; Scott, Campbell,narrator.(CARDINAL)348468; Squires, Buddy,director of photography.; Based on (work):Conant, Jennet.Tuxedo Park.; American Experience Films,production company.; Apograph Productions,production company.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),publisher.(CARDINAL)189964; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.),production company.(CARDINAL)154259;
Editor, R.A. Fedde ; cinematography, Buddy Squires ; music, Tom Phillips ; consultant, Jennet Contant.Narrator, Campbell Scott.In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered a small team of scientists on a clandestine transatlantic mission to deliver his country’s most valuable military secret, a revolutionary radar component, not to the U.S. government, but to a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. Using his connections, his money, and his brilliant scientific mind, Loomis and his team of scientists developed radar technology that would arguably play a more decisive role than any other weapon in the war. The Secret of Tuxedo Park tells a long-overlooked story of an individual who helped alter the course of history in World War II.DVD; NTSC, Region 1; widescreen presentation; 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Biographical television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Television series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Loomis, Alfred L. (Alfred Lee), 1887-1975.; Airplanes, Military; Atomic bomb; Inventors; Military research; Physicists; Radar in aeronautics.; Radar; Research; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Growing up online [videorecording] / by Goodman, Rachel Dretzin,director,producer,screenwriter.; Lyman, Will,1948-narrator.; Maggio, John,director,producer.; Ark Media (Firm)producer.; PBS Home Video,distributor.(CARDINAL)218235; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)publisher.(CARDINAL)189964; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)(CARDINAL)154259; WGBH Educational Foundation,pulisher.(CARDINAL)132712;
Introduction -- Living their lives essentially online -- Revolution in classrooms and social life -- Self expression, trying on new identities -- Child predator fear -- Private worlds outside parents' reach? -- Cyberbullying -- Updates -- Credits.Camera, Tom Hurwitz ; editor, R.A. Fedde ; original music, Frank Ferrucci ; researchers, Bartholt Clagett, Sheherzad Kaleem.Narrator, Will Lyman; commentators, Anne Collier, C.J. Pascoe, Anne and Chris Bukata, Darren Groh, Mike Lasusa, Steve Maher, Rose Porpora, Rob Hunter, Evan Skinner, Greg Abbot, Bill Tsigaris, Parry Aftab, John and Kelly Halligan.Originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television series Frontline on January 22, 2008.FRONTLINE examines the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood. Not so long ago, the digital world was the province of adults, business, and the world of work. Today, there is a very definite teen cyberculture, developed by kids who are growing up online. This digital world provides a private space, where kids communicate with their friends, do schoolwork, and also face the dangers posed by predators and cyberbullies. The Internet is forging a society with fundamentally different properties, leaving parents grapple with the question of how to manage kids interactions with a world where the partition between public and private has effectively disappeared.Not rated (may not be suitable for young children; viewer discretion is advised).System requirements for access to DVD-ROM feature: computer with DVD-ROM drive; Adobe Reader or equivalent.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Digital media; Identity (Psychology) in adolescence.; Internet and teenagers.; Internet; Internet; Mass media and children.; Mass media and technology; Online social networks.; Self-perception in adolescence.; Social media.; Teenagers; Teenagers;
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