The riddle of the Leaning Tower
By: produced by Simon Nasht, Marco Visalberghi ; written and directed by Chris Durlacher ; a Paneikon and Pilot Productions film for WGBH Nova and Channel 4 Television, in association with Raitre and Avro
Contributors: Bywater, Michael; Paneikon Television Productions; Pilot Film and Television Productions; Channel Four (Great Britain); European Union. Media Programme; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Publisher: [distributed by] Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Leaning Tower (Pisa, Italy); Towers; Conservation and restoration; Romanesque Architecture; Buildings, structures
Other titles: Pisa :; Nova (Television program)
Description: To save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from further leaning and eventual collapse, the Italian government appointed a scientific committee to devise a solution.  This program documents the committee's activities in the 1990s: discussions, building and soil analyses, and controversial answers to the structure's ongoing decline, from the weights placed on the rising north side in 1993 to the 1999 soil extraction procedure.  Includes interviews with John Burland, professor of geotechnics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, Piero Pierotti, professor of medieval architecture at the University of Pisa, Carlo Viggiani, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy, and Giorgio Macchi, professor of structural engineering at the University of Pavia.
Notes: Camera, Maurizio Felli, Salvatore Bacciu ; sound, Andrea Fiorentini, Errico Girometta ; editor, Mike Lithgow ; original music, Caroline Lavelle ; developed with the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union.

Narrator, Michael Bywater.

DVD.