Colonial house / 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.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Clement, Sallie, producer.

Brown, Nicolas, producer, director.

Jacobson, Kristi, 1971- producer, director.

Ross, Phillipa, producer, director.

Aiken, Sally, producer, director.

Walker, Kathryn, narrator.

Sim, Samuel, composer.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.

Wall to Wall Television, producer.

PBS Home Video, distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Maine.

History.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States.

Genre:

Reality television programs.

Video recordings for hard of hearing people.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (approximately 480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Edition:

Anamorphic widescreen format.

Place of Publication:

[United States] : PBS Home Video, [2004]

Language Note:

Closed-captioned.

System Details:

DVD.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

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

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.

Participant:

Narrator, Kathryn Walker.

Credits:

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

Notes:

Originally broadcast on PBS in May 2004.

Region 1; Dolby Digital surround stereo.

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

ISBN:

0793697786

9780793697786

OCLC:

55205629

Publisher Number:

841887002790

COHO 600 PBS Home Video