Horatio's drive [videorecording] : America's first road trip / a Florentine Films production, produced in association with WETA Washington, D.C., the American Lives II Film Project, Inc. ; a film by Ken Burns ; producers, Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns ; writer, Dayton Duncan ; director, Ken Burns.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: 88586 | PBS Home VideoSeries: PBS Home VideoPublication details: [United States] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, CA : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2004.Edition: Full screen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. w/b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

1415702519

Other title:

America's first road trip

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

629.28

LOC classification:

E168 .H67 2004 DVD

Production credits:

Cinematography, Allen Moore, Ken Burns ; editor, Erik Ewers.

Narrated by Keith David ; Voices: Tom Hanks, Adam Arkin, Tom Bodett, Philip Bosco, Kevin Conway, John Cullum, Murphy Guyer, Amy Madigan, George Plimpton, Eli Wallach.Summary: Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than 3 months.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD	Westgate Branch DVD	DVD 629.28 HORATIOS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		31744003662125

DVD, region 1, Dolby surround stereo., NTSC.

In English; closed-captioned.

Narrated by Keith David ; Voices: Tom Hanks, Adam Arkin, Tom Bodett, Philip Bosco, Kevin Conway, John Cullum, Murphy Guyer, Amy Madigan, George Plimpton, Eli Wallach.

Cinematography, Allen Moore, Ken Burns ; editor, Erik Ewers.

Originally broadcast in 2003.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than 3 months.

Special features: the making of Horatio's drive, outtakes from the film.