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LONGITUDE: LONGITUDE PART 1
(2000)
- Copyright date
- Not available
- Production start date
- 01/1999
- Production end date
- Not available
Production countries
- Great Britain
- USA
- Notes
- 4-hour drama/film in two parts initially scheduled for tx. on Channel 4 on consecutive nights 13th & 14th December 1999
BNFVC Notes
Television film adaptation of the book by Dava Sobel, telling the story of John Harrison, the Yorkshire clockmaker, who in the 18th century thought he could solve the problem of finding longitude at sea, by producing a clock that would remain accurate on board ship. Relates his struggle to gain acceptance for his ideas against a bigoted establishment. His...
Top five credits
- Director
- STURRIDGE, Charles
- Production Company
- Granada Film
- Production Company
- Channel Four
- Executive Producer
- CROSS, Pippa
- Executive Producer
- ROOT, Antony
Top five cast
- John Harrison
- GAMBON, Michael
- Rupert Gould
- IRONS, Jeremy
- George Graham
- VAUGHAN, Peter
- Muriel Gould
- CHANCELLOR, Anna
- Sir Kenhelm Digby
- FRY, Stephen