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, NY : A & E : New Video Group [distributor, 2000].
- 2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 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.
Director of photography, Peter Hannan ; editor, Peter Coulson ; music, Geoffey Burgon. Director of photography, Peter Hannan ; editor, Peter Coulson ; music, Geoffey Burgon.
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.