In the Path of a Killer Volcano

by: Hal Holbrook, Rob Whittlesey, Noel Buckner, Documentary Guild., WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), WGBH Video (Firm), Films for the Humanities (Firm)

Publication date: 1993

Topics: nova (television program), Mount Pinatubo, eruption of Mount Pinatubo, volcanic activity, volcanic prediction, volcanoes, Philippines, Eruption of Mount Pinatubo (Philippines : 1991), Volcanic activity prediction, Volcanoes -- Philippines, Documentary television programs, Films for the hearing impaired, Volcanoes, Pinatubo, Mount (Philippines) -- Eruption, 1991, Philippines -- Mount Pinatubo

Publisher: Boston, MA : WGBH Boston Video

Language: English

Item Size: 2.8G

Wait with a group of geologists as they monitor the signs from Mount Pinatubo and try to determine exactly when it will erupt. Showing previously unaired footage, it follows the days immediately preceding the June 1991 eruption, the eruption itself, and the aftermath. Examines the methods volcanologists use to make their predictions, their accuracy, and the repercussions when predictions are wrong.

1 videocassette (approximately 60 min.) : 1/2 in

VHS, DVD

Executive producer, Paula S. Apsell ; narrator, Hal Holbrook ; camera and editing, Noel Buckner, Rob Whittlesey ; music, Mason Daring

Originally broadcast as a segment from the television series, NOVA

Dave Harlow, John Ewert, Ed Wolfe, Ray Punongbayan

Addeddate: 2019-08-02 23:41:09

Associated-names: Holbrook, Hal; Whittlesey, Rob; Buckner, Noel; Documentary Guild; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); WGBH Video (Firm); Films for the Humanities (Firm)