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Savage Skies V. 4 - The Winter's Tale
(VHS, 1996)
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$19.98
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Format: VHS
May 1996
Not Rated
Recording Mode: Stereo
Sound: HiFi, Stereo
58 min.
B&W and Color
UPC: 030306714134 |
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Details
Movie Description
The final program in the series visits the nearly 50 million square miles of Planet Earth that are frozen in perpetual winter. Some of the world's coldest cities are shown and 3-D computer imagery journeys into the crystalline structure of snowflakes.
Synopsis
This final episode in the informative series "Savage Skies" explores the mysteries of snow.
"The Winter's Tale" takes you around the world to learn about some of the many devastating storms that have occurred throughout history. Among the places you'll visit is Buffalo, New York, where the one-of-a-kind phenomenon known as "lake effect snow" -- precipitation that begins over Lake Erie -- has caused gigantic storms including the enormous blizzard of 1977.
You'll also travel to Oimyakon, Siberia -- the coldest village in the world; to Scotland, where you'll hear how individuals nearly lost their lives to mountain snow; and to Dartmoor, England, where survivors of a monumental 1963 blizzard provide first-hand accounts of how they remained alive although their town was buried.
The video also extols some of the more positive wonders of snow in Vail, Colorado -- a skier's paradise.
WNBC-TV meteorologist Al Roker narrates this insightful program.
Film Notes
Originally televised on PBS May 7, 1996.
Funding was provided by Marsh & McLennan Companies, public television viewers and PBS.
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