Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003) (TV)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Ken Burns

Writer:

Dayton Duncan (writer)

Release Date:

6 October 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Adventure | History

Tagline:

America's First Road Trip

Plot:

On the centennial of the event, Ken Burns and Florentine Films present the historic journey of motorist Horatio Nelson Jackson.

Plot Keywords:

Automobile | Bet | Dog | Transportation | Letter

Cast

Keith David	...	Narrator (voice)
Tom Hanks	...	Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice)
Adam Arkin	...	Other Voices (voice)
Tom Bodett	...	Other Voices (voice)
Philip Bosco	...	Other Voices (voice)
Kevin Conway	...	Other Voices (voice)
John Cullum	...	Other Voices (voice)
Murphy Guyer	...	Other Voices (voice)
Amy Madigan	...	Other Voices (voice)
George Plimpton	...	Other Voices (voice)
Eli Wallach	...	Other Voices (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Roger Allison	...	Himself (scenes deleted)
Mary Louise Blanchard	...	Herself
Dayton Duncan	...	Himself
William Least Heat-Moon	...	Himself (writer)
Drake Hokanson	...	Himself
Horatio Nelson Jackson	...	Himself (archive footage)
Ann Wall	...	Herself

Directed by
Ken Burns

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Dayton Duncan		writer

Produced by
Pam Tubridy Baucom	....	coordinating producer
Ken Burns	....	producer
Dayton Duncan	....	producer
Craig Mellish	....	field producer
Susanna Steisel	....	associate producer

Original Music by
John McEuen

Cinematography by
Ken Burns
Allen Moore

Film Editing by
Erik Ewers

Sound Department
Martin Czembor	....	sound re-recording mixer
Lee Dichter	....	sound re-recording mixer
Erik Ewers	....	sound editor
Sean Huff	....	sound editor
Craig Mellish	....	sound editor

Editorial Department
George Bunce	....	on-line editor
Tyler Cote	....	post-production intern
Melanie Cunningham	....	post-production intern
Anne Deddo	....	post-production intern
Ian Denny	....	post-production intern
Heather Durfey	....	post-production intern
Danny Hogan	....	assistant on-line editor
Craig Mellish	....	assistant editor
Liz Seru	....	post-production intern
Teo Zagar	....	post-production intern

Music Department
Craig Mellish	....	music editor
Jacqueline Schwab	....	musician: piano

Other crew
Roger Allison	....	program advisor
Brenda Heath	....	chief financial officer
Drake Hokanson	....	program advisor
Curt McConnell	....	program advisor

Thanks
Meg Anne Schindler	....	in loving memory of

Production Companies

• American Lives II Film Project
• Florentine Films

Other Companies

• Arthur Vining Davis Foundations  funding
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)  funding
• Park Foundation  funding

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Certification:

USA:TV-G

Company:

American Lives II Film Project

This is what a documentary should be!

Wonderful job, Ken Burns!

As one who was eight when Horatio Nelson Jackson passed away, all I can do is thank him for his pioneering trip.

Even back in 1967, when I cruised across the US in my Mustang, a journey spanning North America was a challenge, sixty four years after HNJ did it with Crocker and Bud and mud holes that passed as roads. Now that I see what conditions were like just after the turn of the century (nineteenth to twentieth), I have an increased appreciation for those who gave it a try.

A wonderful film that really gives one the sense of being there.

All my love to his darling Swipes!