Longitude
(2000, original release: 1999)
Fiction
DVD
Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/LONGITUDE
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : A&E : New Video Group [distributor], [2000]
DESCRIPTION
2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
9780767027717 AAE-70123-AAE-70125, 076702771X (set), 0767027728 (v. 1) :, 0767027736 (v. 2) :, 733961701234
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes behind-the-scenes featurette, interactive menus, and scene selection
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
Based on the the book by Dava Sobel
Originally produced for television in 1999
Director of photography, Peter Hannan ; editor, Peter Coulson ; music, Geoffey Burgon
Jeremy Irons, Michael Gambon
DVD
Closed-captioned