Hello timespacette-ga,
Phillippe Petit is the Frenchman who was 24 in 1974 when he performed
the amazing aerial feat of walking a tightrope between the World Trade
Center towers. The TV show you?re looking for was the 8th episode of a
PBS American Experience series called The Center of the World -- New
York: A Documentary Film. The film is available for purchase in DVD or
VHS format. My public library has it available for loan, so you might
be able to borrow it from your library as well.
You might also be interested in Petit?s book, To Reach the Clouds: My
High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers, as well as The Man Who Walked
Between the Towers, a children?s picture book about Petit that won the
2004 Caldecott Medal.
I hope you?ll enjoy learning about this amazing episode in the World
Trade Center?s history.
Best wishes to you.
~ czh ~
http://www.memorabletv.com/usaa3.htm
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
PBS / 1x180mins / 2003 (8 September)
Two years ago, filmmaker Ric Burns (Ken's brother) had just finished
his epic series New York: A Documentary Film when Al Qaeda made it,
well, unfinished again. Hence this postscript chronicling the World
Trade Center's rise and fall. It's elegant and elegiac (and achingly
sad). But the World Trade Center saga fits so snugly into the New York
psyche that Burns so ambitiously psychoanalyzed over the series' first
14 and a half hours that you can't really call it a "postscript."
Burns also has an interview Phillippe Petit, the 24-year-old Frenchman
who shocked the world -- and delighted New Yorkers -- with his
tightrope walk between the two towers in 1974. Petit might have been
the only person to have truly loved the Twin Towers and was, says
Hamill, "the first person to humanize these things."
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/
The Center of the World - New York: A Documentary Film
The eighth episode of filmmaker Ric Burns' award-winning series New
York: A Documentary Film examines the rise and fall of the World Trade
Center -- from its conception in the post-World War II economic boom,
through its controversial construction in the 1960s and 1970s, to its
tragic demise in the fall of 2001 and extraordinary response of the
city in its aftermath.
http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=1418299&cp&searchId=10349236548&keywords=The+Center+of+the+World&parentPage=search
New York: The Center of the World - episode 8 (VHS)
Item no: NYNY925
Our Price: $24.98
This final chapter of the acclaimed series New York: A Documentary
Film provides a powerful portrait of the events leading up to and
following September 11, 2001. To understand the impact of 9/11, this
program reaches back to when the idea of a "world trade center" was
first conceived and the towers were constructed, and explores the
physical, economic, and symbolic aftermath of the attack--and what
Americans can learn from the recovery effort.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/peopleevents/p_petit.html
People & Events: Philippe Petit (1948-)
A memorable event in the life of the World Trade Center came in the
summer of 1974, while the still-unfinished (and largely unrented)
towers were courting financial disaster and facing a barrage of
architectural and social criticism. In the course of a single morning,
the unexpected -- and illegal -- actions of a daring young Frenchman
and a few of his confederates would do more to change public opinion
about the troubled billion-dollar project than anything else in its
first years of existence.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000AQS6X/102-3147054-7988116?v=glance
New York - The Center of the World (Part 8) (1999)
Price: $22.48
Edition: DVD
Director: Lisa Ades, Ric Burns
Encoding: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. This DVD will probably NOT
be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
Format: Color, Closed-captioned
Rated: NR
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: September 9, 2003
From IMDb: Quotes & Trivia
ASIN: B0000AQS6X
Other Formats: VHS
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0865476519/qid=1078609670/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-5248060-8666329?v=glance&s=books
To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers
by Philippe Petit
Hardcover: 256 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x 11.22 x 8.82
Publisher: North Point Press; 1st edition (September 4, 2002)
ISBN: 0865476519
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?cds2Pid=1669&kids=y&isbn=0761317910&linkid=220661
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Mordicai Gerstein
ISBN: 0761317910
Format: Hardcover, 40pp
Pub. Date: March 2004
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Barnes & Noble Sales Rank: 90
Age Range: 5 to 8
Annotation
Winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal
From the Publisher
In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the
two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking,
dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky.
This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a
poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings that present the
detail, daring, and -- in two dramatic foldout spreads -- the
vertiginous drama of Petit's feat.
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http://www.dailycelebrations.com/080702.htm
"When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk." ~
Philippe Petit
On this day in 1974, at a few minutes past 7 a.m., Frenchman Philippe
Petit (1949-) extended a high wire between the not-yet-completed twin
towers of the World Trade Center and crossed without a net.
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