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Format:
Video disc
Title:
Longitude
ISBN:
9780767027717

9780767027724

9780767027731
Distribution:
New York, N.Y. : New Video Group.
Publication:
New York, NY : A & E, [2000]
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Originally produced for television in 1999.

Based on the book by Dava Sobel.

Includes behind-the-scenes featurette, interactive menus, and scene selection.
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.
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