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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Swimming with skyscrapers
  name:
    name part: Forstmann, Mark
    role:
      role term: director.
  name:
    name part: Taylor, Simon
    name part: (Producer)
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Pasvolsky, Steve
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: TVF International (Firm)
    role:
      role term: film distributor.
  name:
    name part: Storytime Productions
    role:
      role term: production company.
  name:
    name part: Camera Crews Australia
    role:
      role term: production company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentaries and Factual Films
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Biographical films
  genre: Biographies
  genre: Documentary films
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Biographical films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  genre: Films biographiques.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (27 minutes)
  abstract: When the reality hit James Pittar that he was going blind, he hid in his bedroom for two years. James's fate was particularly cruel since his dad was an ophthalmologist. So what's he doing in New York surrounded by skyscrapers, in Speedo's, smeared with Vaseline, and standing on the edge of the Hudson River? He is attempting to claim some freedom back by swimming 48 kilometres around Manhattan in the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. Imagine being buffeted by strong rips and tides as your arms turn to spaghetti and all you want to do is throw-up. Your sole survival is to power on and listen for the whistles that will guide you to your destiny. SWIMMING WITH SKYSCRAPERS is James' story: his fight against the elements; his disability; his will to be recognised and his larrikin support crew from Australia. They need James, and James needs them. SWIMMING WITH SKYSCRAPERS observes James and his crew as they nervously waltz around the Big Apple in all it's glory. He owes it to them to complete the swim, but not only must he fight pain, hypothermia, water currents and oil tankers, he must also complete the swim within eight and a half hours or be hauled from the water by race officials.
  target audience: adult
  note: Storytime Productions, Camera Crews Australia ; in association with Standard Films Australia ; director, Mark Forstmann ; producers, Steve Pasvolsky, Simon Taylor.
  note: Title from title screen (viewed June 16, 2021).
  note: In English.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
    geographic code: u-at---
  subject:
    topic: Blind athletes
    geographic: Australia
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Swimming
    topic: Competitions
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
  subject:
    topic: Sportifs aveugles
    geographic: Australie
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Blind athletes
  subject:
    topic: Swimming
    topic: Competitions
  subject:
    geographic: Australia
  subject:
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 210616
    record change date: 20241201234808.6
    record identifier: in00005595153
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng