| Edition |
Collector's edition. |
| Description |
2 videodiscs (685 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Originally produced as an NBC television series in 1952. |
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Title from container. |
| Contents |
Disk 1. Design for war -- Pacific boils over -- Sealing the breach -- Midway is East -- Mediterranean mosaic -- Guadalcanal -- Rings around Rabaul -- Marenstrum -- Sea and sand -- Beneath the Southern Cross -- Magnetic North -- Conquest of Micronesia -- Melanesian nightmare -- disk 2. Roman renaissance -- D-Day -- Killers and the kill -- Turkey shoot -- Two if by sea -- Battle for Leyte Gulf -- Return of the Allies -- Full fathom five -- Fate of Europe -- Target Suribachi -- Road to Mandalay -- Suicide for glory -- Design for peace. |
| Credits |
Original musical score, Richard Rodgers; music arranged by Robert Russell Bennett conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra; edited by Isaac Kleinerman. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Leonard Graves. |
| Summary |
The original full-length episodes of the award-winning series made exclusively for television and containing actual live action footage. The videos introduce the campaigns and action of World War II, concentrating on battles and action at sea. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs.
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War films.
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| Added Author |
Graves, Leonard.
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Adams, Clay.
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Salomon, Henry, 1917-1958.
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Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979.
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National Broadcasting Company.
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Mill Creek Entertainment.
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| Added Title |
Victory at sea (Television program)
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| Standard No. |
683904504081 |
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