Longitude, a Granada Film production for Channel Four in association with A & E Television Networks ; producer, Selwyn Roberts ; written and directed by Charles Sturridge
Type
Label
Longitude, a Granada Film production for Channel Four in association with A & E Television Networks ; producer, Selwyn Roberts ; written and directed by Charles Sturridge
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Longitude
Oclc number
45004578
Responsibility statement
a Granada Film production for Channel Four in association with A & E Television Networks ; producer, Selwyn Roberts ; written and directed by Charles Sturridge
Runtime
200
Summary
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
Technique
live action
Contributor
Genre
Subject
- Gould, R. T., Rupert Thomas, 1890-1948 -- Drama
- DVD-Video discs
- Biographical television programs
- Television programs
- Historical television programs
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Harrison, John, 1693-1776 -- Drama
- Sobel, Dava -- Film adaptations
- Clock and watch makers -- Great Britain -- Drama
- Historical -- Television feature
- Longitude + Measurement + History -- Drama
Content
resource.filmdirector
resource.filmproducer
resource.screenwriter
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance4
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor10
- Genre6
- Subject11
- Gould, R. T., Rupert Thomas, 1890-1948 -- Drama
- DVD-Video discs
- Biographical television programs
- Television programs
- Historical television programs
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Harrison, John, 1693-1776 -- Drama
- Sobel, Dava -- Film adaptations
- Clock and watch makers -- Great Britain -- Drama
- Historical -- Television feature
- Longitude + Measurement + History -- Drama
- Content1
- Actor3
- resource.filmdirector1
- resource.filmproducer1
- resource.screenwriter1
- Mapped to1