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.
076702771x
Harrison, John, 1693-1776 --Drama.
Gould, R. T. 1890-1948 --Drama.
Sobel, Dava--Film adaptations.
PN1992.77
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.
076702771x
Harrison, John, 1693-1776 --Drama.
Gould, R. T. 1890-1948 --Drama.
Sobel, Dava--Film adaptations.
PN1992.77