Colonial house

Clement, Sallie. (Added Author). Walker, Kathryn. (Added Author). WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.) (Added Author). Wall to Wall Television. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0793697786
Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (approximately 480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
videodisc
Publisher: [United States] : PBS Home Video, [2004]
Copyright: ©2004

Content descriptions

General Note:	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.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Cinematographers, Will Edwards, Daniel B. Gold ; editors, Ben Holder ... et al. ; music, Samuel Sim.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrator, Kathryn Walker.
Target Audience Note:	Not rated.
System Details Note:	DVD.
Language Note:	Closed-captioned.