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When John Gabbert Bowman became the University of Pittsburgh's 10th Chancellor in 1921, he faced a debt of $1.24 million and an urgent need to accommodate the burgeoning post-WWI student population. His plan to create a
Big Red Fire Engines It's four-alarm fun learning about engines, ladders, and much more as you find out what it's like to be on that big red truck, rushing out to fight a fire on an exciting, fun-filled video trip with r
Documenting The Wonder Stuff’s initial reunion tour, which began in late 2000 and continued through summer 2002, this film features performances from three U.K. concerts as well as interview footage with several band mem
A comprehensive treatment of technical and engineering aspects of Canada's first large nuclear electric power plant at Douglas Point, Ontario. The film shows the design, machining and assembly of component parts, and the
A 36-minute overview of one of mankind's greatest achievements. In the early 1930s, America was in the depths of a tragic economic depression. Yet the people of that troubled era constructed Hoover Dam, still one of the
The construction of the Guerlédan dam lasted seven years (from 1923 to 1930). Placed on the waters of Blavet, it is 45 meters high and retains a volume of 55 million m3 of water over an area of 400 hectares, thus formi
Visual Elements of Construction and Destruction prompts us directly to the essential movementes of a view about labor and disaster, against which we can see the imperceptible symptoms that lie within all collective tear.
A massive housing construction is unfolding in the city of Molotov. In 1949, the residents of the Stalin District of the city received 1200 square meters of living space.
The film is dedicated to the 55-year history of the student construction team "Gefest" from the Ural Polytechnic Institute, which built projects throughout the Soviet Union during its summer internships.
For 25 years, construction crews dug, tunneled, and bridged their way up America's West Coast along the California, Oregon, and Washington shoreline to build the Pacific Coast Highway.
In the German Allgäu, the gigantic Center Parcs Allgäu holiday park was built on an area of 184 hectares. Around 5,000 guests can spend their vacation there in a thousand holiday homes. But it was a long way to go before
Germany’s most expensive major project: the new Stuttgart Central Station. For some, it is economically nonsensical and riddled with planning errors. For others, it is an impressive testament to German engineering. The o
When the municipality of Lipjan decided to remake the river that runs through the village of Janjeva, it was done without consultation with its inhabitants. We tried to get answers from the officials but couldn't get thr
The film follows two colourful labour brokers, young Toon and old Toon. They speak candidly about their dubious practices and come across as surprisingly likeable. Yes, they profit from exploiting workers — but those wor
A member of the collective Video Hiroba, Morihiro Wada also used video in his solo projects. In The Recognition Construction, each subject entering the frame is identified by a narrator, while the video camera slowly rot
Disney Imagineer Tony Baxter, as well as Ed Hobleman and Walter Magnuson from the studio inventory group provide commentary on a never-before-seen reel of footage showcasing Disneyland's construction from 1954-1955 using
There is one principle in the world on screen. It is the principle of construction. Unfinished or abandoned buildings are regarded errors and starts to debug for maintenance of order. However, there is a movement to devi
This U-matic video incorporates a number of frequent images from Wada's oeuvre: a camera advancing down a colonnaded pedestrian walkway beneath an elevated train line, the figure of a woman with her back to the camera re