DVD
The secret of Tuxedo Park
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.
Added Uniform Title
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.
Subjects
- Physicists > United States > Biography.
- Radar > Military applications.
- Research > New York (State) > Tuxedo Park > History > 20th century.
- Atomic bomb > United States > History > 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Technology.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Science > United States.
- Tuxedo Park (N.Y.) > History > 20th century.
- Loomis, Alfred L. (Alfred Lee), 1887-1975.
- Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947.