Roman city
DVD - 2006
The glories of Ancient Rome are explored in this Emmy Award-winning animated and live-action video. Roman City recounts life in Verbonia, a fictional city in Gaul. A well-planned town with all modern conveniences, Verbonia is threatened by conflict between conquerors and conquered. Macaulay also visits Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, Nimes, Orange, and Rome, to view actual Roman architecture and engineering greatness.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Documentary television programs
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Language
- English
- Corporate Author
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- Other Authors
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- Item Description
- Originally produced in 1994.
Based on David Macaulay's book City : a Story of Roman Planning and Construction (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1974). - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; NTSC, region 1; stereo.
- Production Credits
- Animation produced and directed by Bob Kurtz ; music, Richard Einhorn ; animation by Kurtz and Friends ; live action by Unicorn Projects, Inc ; cinematographer, Mike Fox ; editor, Milton Spencer.
- ISBN
- 9780793691173
- Introduction: Layout of a city
- Conquest and occupation of the native peoples of Gaul
- Water delivery: aqueducts and bathhouses
- Corruption and rebellion in the provinces
- Wealthy and working class cities
- Removing local rebellion and corruption
- Spectator events
- Threat against Caesar
- Total vision of life
- Credits.