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LONGITUDE (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Longitude
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
000 min

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Actors:
Jeremy Irons ..... Rupert Gould
Anna Chancellor ..... Muriel Gould
Emma Kay ..... Laura Gurney
Michael Gambon ..... John Harrison
Gemma Jones ..... Elizabeth Harrison
Barbara Leigh-Hunt ..... Dodo Gould
Peter-Hugo Daly ..... John Jefferies
Alec McCowen ..... Sir Frank Dyson
Jonathan Coy ..... Admiral Clowdisley
Christopher Hodsol ..... Captain Ainsley
Samuel West ..... Nevil Maskelyne
Clare Lawrence Moody ..... Staff Nurse
Ian McNeice ..... Dr. Bliss
Clare McCarron ..... Nurse
Peter Cartwright ..... Army Doctor
Ian Hart ..... William Harrison
John Nettleton ..... Minister for the Navy
Bill Nighy ..... Lord Sandwich
Brian Cox ..... Lord Morton
Nigel Davenport ..... Sir Charles Pelham
Liam Jennings ..... Young William
John Leeson ..... BBC Producer
Joe Williams ..... Cecil Gould
Geoffrey Hutchings ..... Estate Manager
Nick Reding ..... Captain Campbell
John Wood ..... Edmund Halley
Peter Penry-Jones ..... Surgeon
Charles Edwards ..... Lt. Seward
David Wood ..... Ditton
Clive Francis ..... Captain Digges
Mark Tandy ..... Whiston
Stephen Fry ..... Sir Kenelm Digby
Steven Alvey ..... Learmouth
Tobias Menzies ..... Halley's Secretary
Ben Jones ..... Lt. Williams
Gary Waldhorn ..... Commodore Forrest
Robert Demeger ..... Observatory Porter
Colin McCormack ..... Inn Landlord
Sophie Millett ..... Dyson's Secretary
Peter Vaughan ..... George Graham
Daragh O'Malley ..... Captain Bourke
Sarah Badel ..... Society Lady
Phil Dix ..... Lt. Bandelwine
Frederick Warder ..... Bosun
Steve Morphew ..... Marine
Stephen Simms ..... James Harrison
Frank Finlay ..... Admiral Wagner
Sasha Hails ..... BBC Researcher
Tim McInnerny ..... Christopher Irwin
Cliff Parisi ..... Lt. Draper

Synopsis:

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In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.

In the eighteenth century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would give you the latitude, but not the longitude unless done in conjunction with a clock that would keep time accurately at sea, and no such clock existed. After one too many maritime disasters due to navigational errors, the British Parliament set up a substantial prize for a way to find the longitude at sea. This movie's main story is that of craftsman John Harrison (Sir Michael Gambon). He built a clock that would do the job, what we would now call a marine chronometer. But the Board of Longitude was biased against this approach and claiming the prize was no simple matter. Told in parallel is the twentieth century story of Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons), for whom the restoration of Harrison's clocks to working order became first a hobby, then an obsession that threatened to wreck his life.

INSTRUCTIONAL. Demonstration of certain fundamentals of geography using
moving models and diagrams. First the earth's movement round the sun is
shown, dots on its orbit representing its position on successive days (130).
The rotation of the earth on its axis is seen from above the North Pole (193).
The position of Great Britain at noon is shown (410). The earth slowly
rotates and the meridians are marked at intervals of 15 degrees with the
corresponding Greenwich time (509). The next section shows the movement of
the shadow of a stick standing upright on the British Isles as the earth
rotates (618). Finally, parallels of latitude are traced by rays from the sun
falling on the rotating earth (790 ft). (Shotlist) Consists of moving models and diagrams of the earth and sun, to
demonstrate fundamentals of geography such as the earth's movement
round the sun and the rotation of the earth and the movement of
the shadow of a stick as the earth rotates. (Synopsis)

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 06 February, 2026.