Description |
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Series |
Sites of the world's cultures |
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Sites of the world's cultures.
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System Details |
DVD, NTSC, region 1; 4:3 full screen; Dolby digital 2.0. |
Note |
Originally produced in 1999. |
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"The acclaimed series filmed on location at the world's most important cultural sites"--Container. |
Summary |
"Venice--a romantic, melancholy city, this we know. But insatiable? And yet this latter characteristic defines Venice more aptly than anything else. For it was in this spirit that Venice emerged. It was the spirit of merchants dedicated to exploring any way of buying the best goods at the best price, who undertook arduous and perilous journeys so that they could offer for sale the most exquisite, precious objects and who risked everything for the chance of amassing even more gold. Only against this background is it possible to understand why the lagoon city was able to develop into the trading city of the Mediterranean and how it became a cosmopolitan city whose wealth was the envy of princes throughout the world"--Container. |
Performer |
No credits available. |
Language |
English audio. |
Contents |
Introduction -- The middle ages -- The Renaissance -- Glassmaking -- The Doge's Palace -- The 16th & 17th centuries -- St. Mark's Basilica -- Shipbuilding -- Decline of the Republic -- Festa del Redentore. |
Subject |
Venice (Italy) -- History.
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Italy -- Venice.
(OCoLC)fst01204473
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Genre/Form |
Documentary films. (OCoLC)fst01710390
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Nonfiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710269
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Feature films.
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Added Author |
Kultur International Films.
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Bayerischer Rundfunk.
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Deutsche Welle TransTel.
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Added Title |
Insatiable city-state |
ISBN |
9780769792088 |
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0769792081 |
Standard No. |
032031482197 |
Music No. |
D4821 Kultur |
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