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TITLE: Nature's fury [videorecording] : hurricane / A Production of BBV-TV in Association with WGBH for NOVA.
SERIES: Nova adventures in science
PUBLISHED: LA : WGBH Educational Foundation ; 1989.
DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
NOTES: Original copy.
NOTES: Written, Produced and Directed by larry Engel and Thomas Lucas; executive producer, Paula Apsell; editor Robin Brightwell.
NOTES: "It's one of the most, beautiful things I've ever seen," says Hugh Willoughby, relishing the unusual object of his professions. " That's one of the reasons why people fly into hurricanes." Join Willoughby on a data-gathering flight made into the eye of Hurricane Gilbert in September 1988. NOVA obtained spectacular footage of the storm's center - a canyon of clear blue sky surrounded by a wall of clouds 10 miles high. Watch how thesehighly-tained scienctist routinely - and carefully - fly into the world's most couds 10 miles high. Watch how these highly-trained scientists routinely - and carefully - fly into the worlds's most destructive storms to discover what makes them tick and to measure its intensity and probable path. The hear first-hand accounts of Hurricane Camille, the most devastating storm ever to strike the United State. As Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center says, "Even if we could issue the perfect forecast, it does no good unless you motivate people peo;pe to take the right action.
NOTES: VHS.
NOTES: English.
SUBJECT: Hurrincanes
ADDED ENTRY: Engel, Larry.
ADDED ENTRY: Lucas, Thomas.
ADDED ENTRY: Brightwell, Robin.
ADDED ENTRY: Apsell, Paula.

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