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©2003
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color w/black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
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"PBS DVD gold."
Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than 3 months
Special features: interview with Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan; the making-of 'Horatio's drive'
Cinematography, Allen Moore, Ken Burns ; narrator, Keith David ; editor, Erik Ewers
Voices: Tom Hanks, Adam Arkin, Tom Bodett, Philip Bosco, Kevin Conway, John Cullum, Murphy Guyer, Amy Madigan, George Plimpton, Eli Wallach
MPAA rating: Not rated
DVD, Region 1 encoding, stereo., Dolby surround
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