1994 Directed by Larry Klein
The glories of Ancient Rome are explored in ROMAN CITY, based on David Macaulay's acclaimed book. This animated and live-action video recounts life in Verbonia, a fictional city in Gaul. A well-planned town with all modern conveniences, it is threatened by conflict between conquerors and conquered. Macaulay also visits Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, Nimes, Orange, and Rome, to view actual Roman architecture and engineering greatness.
USA
USA
When you combine education with entertainament, you either get more entertainament than what they're supposed to be teaching you or you get bored at the dull attempts of mixing the two, this documentary and animation feature mixes them both perfectly.
David Macaulay makes for a nice host, and seeing him walk through the locations and showing us every detail makes for a great show and tell.
But what I did not expect was the animation feature that is the entertaining part of the feature, and what I sure as hell didn't expect was for it to be so good, we have a formidable cast voicing the characters, the animation is superb with its rich style of sketches and the real…
