Alan Yentob
imagine... (2003)
A Short History of Tall Buildings
The biggest names from the world of art, film, music, literature and dance. Alan Yentob gets close up with those shaping today's cultural world.
Released June 10, 2003
Episode 50 min
14+
Genres: Biography, Documentary, History, News
Keywords: imdb.art, imdb.architecture, imdb.architect
Production Companies: BBC, BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S5E1 - A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 1
It begins with the extraordinary story of the technology that made it all possible: steel cage construction and the lift. Elisha Otis’s demonstration of his safety lift was the star turn at the New York Worlds Fair in 1854, run by the great American showman, PT Barnum. This streak of showmanship and element of popular entertainment runs through the New York skyscraper’s golden age.
May 11, 2005, midnight
S5E2 - A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 2
The skyscraper goes global, as Alan Yentob continues to chart the history of tall buildings, examining the cultural legacy of the tower and the rise of a new super class of sky-high buildings.
May 18, 2005, midnight
S5E3 - A Short History of Tall Buildings - Episode 3
There are now more tall buildings in the Far East than in North America – the traditional home of the skyscraper – while China, the world’s largest country and fastest-growing economy, is building cities at a rate unprecedented in the history of mankind.
May 25, 2005, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 50 min.
Season Runtime: 50 min.
Released: June 10, 2003
Last Air Date: April 16, 2024, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR / 14+
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