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The chair

Title: The chair [videorecording] / an RDF television production for Channel 4 ; produced and directed by Nicholas O'Dwyer.
Publication: New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, 1998.

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Description

1 videocassette (49 min.) : sd., col. and b&w; 1/2 in.

Summary

Documentary that traces the development of the electric chair including the involvement of Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. Reenacts the execution in 1890 of William Kemmler, its first victim.

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Credits (note)

Narrator, Michael Pennington ; photography, Roger Chapman, Luke Hallam ; film editors, Stuart Briggs, Wanda Gurzynska.

System Details (note)

VHS.

Call Number

*UGS-1327

OCLC

42210883

Title

The chair [videorecording] / an RDF television production for Channel 4 ; produced and directed by Nicholas O'Dwyer.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, 1998.

System Details

VHS.

Credits

Narrator, Michael Pennington ; photography, Roger Chapman, Luke Hallam ; film editors, Stuart Briggs, Wanda Gurzynska.

Added Author

Pennington, Michael, 1943-

O'Dwyer, Nicholas.

Radiodiffusion française.

Channel Four (Great Britain)

First Run/Icarus Films.

Research Call Number

*UGS-1327 [Video]

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