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The old man and the storm.

Title
The old man and the storm.
Publication
Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Alexandria, VA : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Cross, June
  • Elliott, Julia
  • Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
  • Faith Project, Inc., production company.
  • WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
  • Independent Television Service.
  • WGBH Educational Foundation.
  • PBS Home Video.
Description
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Herbert and Lydia Gettridge raised nine children in the Lower Ninth Ward. Their house, which Mr. Gettridge built on land he purchased in 1943, took on 10 feet of water when the levees breached. Five of their children who owned homes in New Orleans also lost everything. Over the year and a half that reporter June Cross follows him, Mr. Gettridge battles with the city, the insurance company, and the bureaucracy of the state-run Road Home homeowner assistance program. In June 2008, Lydia Gettridge came home, but her return was bittersweet. By sheer force of will, Mr. Gettridge had managed to rebuild their home of more than 65 years. Would he do it over again? "I'm kind of skeptical about that now," Herbert Gettridge replies. "Once upon a time, I could answer that question in a split second for you; I can't do that now."
Uniform Title
Frontline (Television program)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Documentary television programs.
  • Nonfiction television programs.
  • Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Note
  • Source used: videodisc container.
  • Summary from videodisc container.
  • Special features: web links [text feature].
Credits (note)
  • Screenwriter, June Cross ; producers, June Cross, Julia Elliott ; cinematographer, John Baynard ; editor, Robert Salsbury ; composers, Sohrab Habibion, Michael Hampton, Waldron Ricks ; PBS ; a Faith Project production for WGBH/Frontline and the Independent Television Service ; WGBH Boston.
Event (note)
  • Originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television series Frontline on January 6, 2009.
Audience (note)
  • MPAA Rating: Not rated.
System Details (note)
  • DVD; Region 1, NTSC; stereo; widescreen presentation, enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions.
Language (note)
  • In English; closed-captioned.
Contents
Introduction -- Herbert Gettridge: fifth-generation New Orleanian -- In-fighting, bureaucracy and politics -- "An altogether different life" -- Federally funded Road Home Program -- 2007: more problems and delays: -- Bittersweet homecoming -- Credits.
Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-378
ISBN
  • 0793670330
  • 9780793670338
LCCN
841887010344
OCLC
302001340
Title
The old man and the storm.
Imprint
Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Alexandria, VA : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2009.
Country of Producing Entity
United States.
System Details
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; stereo; widescreen presentation, enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions.
Performer
Reported by June Cross; commentators, Herbert Gettridge, Gale Gettridge-Branon, Cheryl Gettridge-Steele, Cyntrelle Kapinus, Jed Horne, Donald Powell, Sean Reilly, Leonard Gettridge, Jeffrey Rouse, Walter Leger Jr.
Credits
Screenwriter, June Cross ; producers, June Cross, Julia Elliott ; cinematographer, John Baynard ; editor, Robert Salsbury ; composers, Sohrab Habibion, Michael Hampton, Waldron Ricks ; PBS ; a Faith Project production for WGBH/Frontline and the Independent Television Service ; WGBH Boston.
Event
Originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television series Frontline on January 6, 2009.
Audience
MPAA Rating: Not rated.
Language
In English; closed-captioned.
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Added Author
Cross, June, television producer.
Elliott, Julia, television producer.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Faith Project, Inc., production company.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
Independent Television Service.
WGBH Educational Foundation.
PBS Home Video.
Added Title
Frontline (Television program)
Other Standard Identifier
841887010344
Publisher No.
FRL62705 PBS Home Video
Research Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-378
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