They also can be enjoyed in admission-free public screenings, which also makes them ideal for use by library patrons and businesses involved in community clubs and organizations. AV versions come with limited performance rights so they can be shown in classrooms, at PTA meetings, during after school programs, and transmitted on a closed-circuit system within a building or on a single campus. Why the AV version? Because it provides additional usage options for PBS videos. The program tells period tales revealing fascinating stories of life and death, faith and despair, prosperity, and intrigue. Travel back to 1214 to explore the design of Notre Dame de Beaulieu, a representative Gothic cathedral. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys France's most famous churches. And after watching Cathedral, it’s impossible not to agree.Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys Frances most famous churches.
“The more you know about how a cathedral was built, the more in awe of the craftsman you are,” Macaulay says. Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Amazingly, the builders had but the simplest of tools to work with - the carpenter’s square, the measuring rod, calipers and plumb line. In seeing the Beaulieu cathedral through to its completion, the program also uses computer-animated blueprints, based on Macaulay’s sketches, to show how the gravity-defying vaulted arches and other features were assembled. “He was buried in North Africa,” Pierre tells us, his tone barely concealing his pleasure. Beaulieu’s leaders appeal to King Louis IX, who forces the bishop to make good on a long-standing vow to go off crusading. Master Guillaume, the cathedral’s architect, is killed. His insistence on using inferior-quality stone from his family’s quarry results in a wall collapsing.
Paying pilgrims get to see the glass blowers, masons and sculptors at work.Īs the years drag on, the bishop dies and is succeeded by a crook who skims the building fund. Later, guided tours of the site generate additional revenue. To raise additional funds, the Virgin’s veil is taken round the region as part of a touring exhibit. Beaulieu’s bishop pledges proceeds from his lands to get the project going. Pierre, whose role is spoken by actor Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius), narrates the story, a slice of medieval life. The church leaders and townspeople take this as a sign that the Virgin wishes to have a more splendid shrine. Pierre, an orphan assumed trapped in the blaze, emerges from the flames carrying the church’s precious relic, the Virgin Mary’s veil. Fire destroys Beaulieu’s largely wooden cathedral in 1214 as the animated tale begins.
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