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.
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.
Edition
Full screen version.
ISBN
1415702519 9781415702512
Publication Details
[United States] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, CA : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2004.
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.
Note
Originally broadcast in 2003. Special features: the making of Horatio's drive, outtakes from the film. 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.
Credits
Cinematography, Allen Moore, Ken Burns ; editor, Erik Ewers.
