Longitude /

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. - New York : A & E Home Video, c2000. - 2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Originally produced for television in 1999.
Based on the book by Dava Sobel.
Includes behind-the-scenes featurette, interactive menus, and scene selection.

Jeremy Irons, Michael Gambon.


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 chronometers and devotes himself to restoring Harrison's long-neglected mechanical masterpieces.

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Harrison, John, 1693-1776 --Drama.
Gould, R. T. 1890-1948 --Drama.


Sobel, Dava--Film adaptations.

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