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1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
"It's so powerful it can carve our landscape, yet so nurturing it can spawn life and support its intricate matrix. We take it for granted, yet compared to other natural compounds, it's a genuine oddity. MODERN MARVELS® paints a vivid portrait of this common entity that's anything but. Watch it flow from huge irrigation machines that have revolutionized American agriculture and blast 200 miles into space from a newly discovered geyser on one of Saturn's moons (via computer animation). See it coaxed from the clouds by chemical injection, captured by innovative "fog-catchers", and cascade with artistic flair from compressed air jets at the Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas."--History Channel web site (history.com).
Originally produced by Actuality Productions for the History Channel and broadcast on the History Channel as part of Great Inventions Week in 2006.
"This DVD was manufactured using the DVD+R format"--Disc surface.
Narrator, Max Raphael; executive producer, Don Cambou; producer, Bruce Nash.