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Colonial house [videorecording] / series producer, Sallie Clement ; a co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York and Wall to Wall for Channel 4 and PBS in association with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: COHO 600 | PBS Home VideoPublication details: [United States] : PBS Home Video, c2004.Description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 480 min.) in one container : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0793697786
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 974.1/02 22
Contents:
Disc 1: A new world / produced and directed by Nicolas Brown -- Harsh reality / produced and directed by Kristi Jacobson -- City of God / produced and directed by Nicolas Brown -- The outsiders / produced and directed by Kristi Jacobson.
Disc 2: Regime change / produced and directed by Sally Aitken -- The shake up / produced and directed by Phillipa Ross -- The reckoning / produced and directed by Sally Aitken -- Judgment day / produced and directed by Kristi Jacobson.
Production credits:
  • Cinematographers, Will Edwards, Daniel B. Gold ; editors, Ben Holder ... et al. ; music, Samuel Sim.
Narrator, Kathryn Walker.Summary: Contemporary Americans and Britons spend five months on an isolated stretch of the Maine coast recreating the life of American colonists in the year 1628. The modern colonists struggle to create a functioning and profitable colony using only the tools and technology of that era. Extensive research went into recreating this 17th-century environment in which the colonists negotiate personal and communal challenges as they deal with the demoralizing weather, rustic living conditions, and backbreaking labor. Among the points of dissension that arise in the colony are: the rigid class and gender roles, mandatory religious observance, and the puritanical civil laws of the era, particularly those pertaining to profanity.
Item type: Book
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Originally broadcast on PBS in May 2004.

Region 1; Dolby Digital surround stereo; anamorphic widescreen format.

Special features include: The making of Colonial house; auditions for Colonial house; more diaries.

Disc 1: A new world / produced and directed by Nicolas Brown -- Harsh reality / produced and directed by Kristi Jacobson -- City of God / produced and directed by Nicolas Brown -- The outsiders / produced and directed by Kristi Jacobson.

Disc 2: Regime change / produced and directed by Sally Aitken -- The shake up / produced and directed by Phillipa Ross -- The reckoning / produced and directed by Sally Aitken -- Judgment day / produced and directed by Kristi Jacobson.

Cinematographers, Will Edwards, Daniel B. Gold ; editors, Ben Holder ... et al. ; music, Samuel Sim.

Narrator, Kathryn Walker.

Contemporary Americans and Britons spend five months on an isolated stretch of the Maine coast recreating the life of American colonists in the year 1628. The modern colonists struggle to create a functioning and profitable colony using only the tools and technology of that era. Extensive research went into recreating this 17th-century environment in which the colonists negotiate personal and communal challenges as they deal with the demoralizing weather, rustic living conditions, and backbreaking labor. Among the points of dissension that arise in the colony are: the rigid class and gender roles, mandatory religious observance, and the puritanical civil laws of the era, particularly those pertaining to profanity.

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DVD.

Closed-captioned.

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