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.


DVD.


Closed-captioned.

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Harrison, John, 1693-1776 --Drama.
Gould, Rupert Thomas, 1890-1948 --Drama.


Longitude--Measurement--History--Drama.
Clock and watch makers--Great Britain--Drama.


Made-for-TV movies.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Historical--Television feature.