The old man and the storm
(DVD)
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Published
Boston, Mass. : WGBH Educational Foundation ;, [2009].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Southside - Media
DVD 363.3492 Old
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DVD 363.3492 Old
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Published
Boston, Mass. : WGBH Educational Foundation ;, [2009].
Language
English
UPC
841887010344
Notes
General Note
Special features: web links [text feature].
Creation/Production Credits
Editor, Robert Salsbury ; director of photography, John Baynard ; reporter/researchers, Andrea De Marco, Jennifer Pritheeva Samuels, Mike Schreiber, E.J. Vega, Greg Gilderman; original music by Sohrab Habibion, Michael Hampton, Waldron Ricks.
Participants/Performers
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.
Date/Time and Place of Event
Originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television series Frontline on January 6, 2009.
Description
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."
System Details
DVD format; region 1, NTSC; stereo; widescreen presentation, enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions.
Language
In English; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Disaster relief -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Disaster victims -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Documentary television programs.
Emergency management -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Gettridge, Herbert.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Hurricanes -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Levees -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Disaster victims -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Documentary television programs.
Emergency management -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Gettridge, Herbert.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Hurricanes -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Levees -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.