Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
Horatio's drive [videorecording] : America's first road trip / a Florentine Films production, a film by Ken Burns ; producers, Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns ; writer, Dayton Duncan ; director, Ken Burns.
Call Number:
917.3 H DVD
Publisher, Date:
[Burbank, CA] : Warner Home Video, c2003.
Description:
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. w/b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Subjects:
Jackson, Horatio Nelson, b. 1862.
Automobile travel.
Automobiles.
Closed caption DVDs.
Genre:
Feature films -- United States.
Documentary films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:
Duncan, Dayton.
Burns, Ken, 1953-
Hanks, Tom.
Arkin, Adam.
Bodett, Tom.
Bosco, Philip.
Conway, Kevin.
Cullum, John, 1930-
Guyer, Murphy.
Madigan, Amy.
Plimpton, George.
Wallach, Eli, 1915-
Moore, Allen.
David, Keith.
Ewers, Erik.
Florentine Films.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Other Title:
America's first road trip [videorecording]
ISBN:
0780641442