Format:
Video disc
Title:
Cathedral
ISBN:
9780793691142
Edition:
Full screen version.
Distribution:
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, [2006]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Based on the book by David Macaulay (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1973).
Originally produced in 1985.
Contents:
Introduction: palaces of God -- Rebuilding a lost cathedral -- Flying buttresses -- Discontent with the bishop -- Hubs of thriving economics -- Calamity during construction -- Truth behind the romance -- The gothic cathedral is awesome -- Credits.
Summary:
Combines location sequences and animation to show the building of a Gothic cathedral. Begins with a tour of Chartres, Reims, Amiens, Bourges, Beauvais, Notre Dame de Paris, Laon, and the Royal Abbey Church of St. Denis. Discusses life in the medieval era and how churches were a center of life.
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