Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780641440
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0780641442
Label: Pbs Home Video
Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Pbs Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Running Time: 146 minutes
Sales Rank: 34938
Studio: Pbs Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 06, 2003
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Horatio's Drive recounts the simultaneously inspirational and hilarious saga of Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, who in 1903 - on a visionary whim and a 50-dollar bet - became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent, heralding the future of the 'horseless carriage' as a vehicle destined for more than inner-city travel and as a machine that would transform American life.
Amazon.com:
Subtitled 'America's First Road Trip,' Horatio's Drive captures the remarkable odyssey of Horatio Nelson Jackson, a doctor from Vermont who--accompanied by a former professional bicyclist and a bulldog named Bud--helmed the first trip from coast to coast in a car. In 1903, after making a $50 bet he could drive to New York City in 90 days, Nelson set off from San Francisco in a used Winton two-seater than he bought for $3000 and proceeded to cross a country where most roads, if they existed at all, were still made of dirt. Pulling together newspaper articles, period movies, and Jackson's own photographs and passionate love letters to his wife, famed documentarian Ken Burns crafts a love letter of his own to the automobile and the ways it has shaped American life. Horatio's Drive is both educational and completely entertaining. --Bret Fetzer
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- The original off roaderI can't say enough about this movie. It's a true story. It was made by the Legendary Ken Burns. ... Read More
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- Total Enjoyment Documentary for the Whole FamilyBefore tuning into PBS for this documentary, I thought, "Who cares about a rich kid with nothing better ... Read More
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- "My Darling Swipes...."Horatio Nelson Jackson bet a group of men in San Francisco $50 he could drive an automobile coast to coast ... Read More
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- Thank goodness it was only a two-seater!I would never have imagined that a cross-country trip would have
been so hazardous as late as 1903. Mr ... Read More
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- I LOVE KEN BURNS' STUFFlots of fun following their voyage, hard for us to visualize 100 years ago what our country looked like and what ... Read More
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