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Bauhaus : the face of the 20th century /

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 100602 | ArthausLanguage: English, German, French Subtitle language: English Series: Art documentaryPublisher: Great Britain : BBC/R M Arts in association with NOS TV3, 1994Distributor: Halle, Germany : Arthaus Musik, 2005Description: 1 videodisc (49 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. ; + 1 booklet (6 pages ; 18 cm.)Content type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

9783939873310
3939873314

Other title:

Bauhaus, the face of the twentieth century
Face of the 20th century

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DDC classification:

709.43 22

Production credits:

Film editor, Colin Knieff ; music, Howard J. Davidson.

Narrated by Frank Whitford.Summary: Looks at the development of the Bauhaus and at the key figures involved in it, including the founder Walter Gropius, his successor Mies van der Rohe, Lásló Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers. The program also sets the history of the Bauhaus in the context of the political unrest and economic chaos of the Weimar Republic in Germany. Former students discuss their time at the Bauhaus and architect Philip Johnson tells how it influenced his work. Contains rare archival footage of the Bauhaus at Dessau and looks at the architecture of Chicago, much influenced by Mies van der Rohe, who emmigrated there after the Bauhaus was shut by the Nazis in 1933.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-03419 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050309396

Originally produced as a documentary film in 1994.

Special features: picture gallery and trailer.

DVD video format, NTSC, region 0, aspect ratio 4:3, Dolby digital 2.0 sound.

With English, German or French narration/voice-over, and English subtitles for the spoken German passages.

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