| Description |
2 DVD (approximately 480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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United States https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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video file |
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DVD video |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Performer |
Narrator, Kathryn Walker. |
| Credits |
Cinematographers, Will Edwards, Daniel B. Gold ; editors, Ben Holder ... et al. ; music, Samuel Sim. |
| Note |
Originally broadcast on PBS in May 2004. |
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Region 1; Dolby Digital surround stereo; anamorphic widescreen format. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| 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. |
| 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 -- Outsiders / produced and directed by Kristi Jacobson. |
| Note |
Special features include: The making of Colonial house; auditions for Colonial house; more diaries. |
| Contents |
Disc 2: Regime change / produced and directed by Sally Aitken -- Shake up / produced and directed by Phillipa Ross -- Reckoning / produced and directed by Sally Aitken -- Judgment day / produced and directed by Kristi Jacobson. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. |
| Subject |
Maine -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
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United States. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1775 |
| Genre/Form |
Reality television programs.
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Reality television programs.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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| Added Author |
Clement, Sallie.
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Walker, Kathryn.
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WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
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Wall to Wall Television.
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| ISBN |
0793697786 |
| Standard No. |
841887002790 |
| Music No. |
COHO 600 PBS Home Video |
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