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Title Longitude [videorecording] / a Granada Film production for Channel Four in association with A & E Television Networks ; producer, Selwyn Roberts ; written and directed by Charles Sturridge.

Imprint New York, NY : A & E : New Video Group [distributor, 2000]

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  791.45658 L862s 2000  pt.2    ---  Available
 Axe DVDs 1st Floor  791.45658 L862s 2000  pt.1    ---  Available
Description 2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD.
Note Includes behind-the-scenes featurette, interactive menus, and scene selection.
Cast Jeremy Irons, Michael Gambon.
Credits Director of photography, Peter Hannan ; editor, Peter Coulson ; music, Geoffey Burgon.
Note Based on the the book by Dava Sobel.
Language Closed-captioned.
Note Originally produced for television in 1999.
Summary Interweaves two stories: John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer; and naval officer Rupert Gould who, two hundred years later, stumbles across Harrison's forgotten chromometers and devotes himself to restoring Harrison's long-neglected mechanical masterpieces.
Subject Harrison, John, 1693-1776 -- Drama.
Gould, Rupert Thomas, 1890-1948 -- Drama.
Longitude -- Measurement -- History -- Drama.
Clock and watch makers -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Added Author Sturridge, Charles.
Irons, Jeremy, 1948-
Gambon, Michael, 1940-2023.
Sobel, Dava.
Granada Films.
Channel Four (Great Britain)
Arts and Entertainment Network.
New Video Group.
ISBN 076702771X (set)
0767027728 (v. 1) : $27.50
0767027736 (v. 2) : $27.50
Music No. AAE-70123-AAE-70125 A & E

 
    
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