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DVD

The secret of Tuxedo Park

Call Number

  • DVD 940.5486 S4461 (CEN)

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Languages

In English, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Narrated by Campbell Scott.

Publication Information

[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation, [2018]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (approximately 60 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered a small team of scientists on a clandestine transatlantic mission to deliver his country's most valuable military secret, a revolutionary radar component, not to the US government, but to a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. Using his connections, his money, and his brilliant scientific mind, Loomis and his team of scientists developed radar technology that would arguably play a more decisive role than any other weapon in the war. The secret of Tuxedo Park tells a long-overlooked story of an individual who helped alter the course of history in World War II.

Notes

Title from container.

"Subtitles are a function of the disc and serve the same purpose as closed captions"--Container.

Based on the book Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant.

Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of American experience in 2018.

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