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• Title:Rachel Carson's Silent spring / writer and producer, Neil Goodwin ; a Peace River Films production for The American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation, WNET/Thirteen and Peace River Films.
  
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• Variant Title:Silent spring
  
• Related Title:American experience (Television program)
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Goodwin, Neil.
  Chadwick, Alex, 1947-
  Streep, Meryl.
  Peace River Films.
  WGBH Educational Foundation.
  WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
  WGBH Video (Firm)
  
• Published/Created:Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, 2007.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY audiovisual (Floor 3 )Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: QH545.P4 R27 2007 dvd
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY audiovisualWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QH545.P4 R27 2007 dvd
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964. Silent spring.
  Biologists--United States--Biography.
  Environmentalists--United States--Biography.
  Science writers--United States--Biography.
  Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
  Pesticides--Toxicology.
  Pesticides and wildlife.
  Insect pests--Biological control.
  Environmental health.
  
• Genre/Form:Environmental television programs.
  Documentary television programs.
  Biographical television programs.
  Nonfiction television programs.
  
• Description:1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. with b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
  
• Series:American experience (Television program)
  
• Terms governing use:Restrictions: B.C. public post-secondary educational institutions only.
  
• Credits:Editor, Michel Chalufour ; music, Sheldon Mirowitz ; narrator, Alex Chadwick ; readings by Meryl Streep. ; cinematographers, Rick Brandt ... [et al.]
  
• Cast:Host, David McCullough.
  
• Summary:Witness the life of passionate biologist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and how she exposed the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides by the federal government, and sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
  
• Target Audience:Not rated.
  
• Notes:Originally broadcast on public television in 1993.
  Special features: DVD-ROM link to American Experience website; other products of interest.
  DVD, NTSC; region 1, full screen (4x3) presentation; Dolby Digital.
  
• ISBN:9781593757632
  1593757638
  
• Contents:Introduction
  Rachel Carson: woman, family member, scientist
  New chemical technologies
  Playing God with chemicals
  Silent Spring is published
  The government pays attention.