Across the Sea of Time

Across the Sea of Time
Film poster
Directed by	Stephen Low
Written by	Andrew Gellis
Produced by	Stephen Low
Starring	Peter Reznick
Narrated by	Dennis O'Connor
Cinematography	Andrew Kitzanuk
Edited by	James Lahti
Music by	John Barry
Production companies	Sony New Technologies Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release date	October 20, 1995 (1995-10-20)
Running time	52 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Russian
Box office	$16 million

Across the Sea of Time is a 1995 American IMAX 3D adventure film produced and directed by Stephen Low, and written by Andrew Gellis. It stars Peter Reznick as a young Russian boy who travels to the United States in search of his ancestor's family.

Plot

The plot centres around a real life Russian immigrant, searching for his family, who is given the name Leopold Minton by the Ellis Island immigration officials (because they are unable to pronounce his Russian name). Minton is employed by a company to take stereoscopic photographs for the (at that time) popular Holmes stereoscope. This provides the film with an opportunity to show many stereoscopic images, both past and present, of New York.

Minton, who had no fear of heights, produced an unrivalled collection of images of the development of New York's skyscrapers. Minton also documented the construction of New York's subway system. The film also includes a number of Minton's private stereo photographs that were not publicly released during his lifetime. Some of these images reveal how Minton was able to take some of the photographs of the skyscraper construction without actually standing on them.

Cast

• Peter Reznick as Thomas Minton
• John McDonough as Freighter Chief
• Victor Steinbach as Seaman—Pilot
• Peter Boyden as ConEd Worker
• Philip Levy as Hot Dog Vendor
• Nick Muglia as Policeman
• Abby Lewis as Julia Minton
• Matt Malloy as Wall Street Businessman
• Luigi Petrozza as Pizza Pie Man
• Bernard Ferstenberg as Pickle Vendor
• Robert Buckley as Socialite
• Donald Trump as himself
• Patrick Flynn as Bartender

Music

The film's score was composed by John Barry.

1. The Wonder of America
2. Into New York
3. Ellis Island
4. Never Have I Felt So Free
5. The Lower East Side
6. The Automobile, The Telephone
7. The Subway
8. The Subway Ride
9. Coney Island
10. Up to the Sky
11. Flight Over New York
12. Central Park
13. Times Square and Broadway
14. Scary Night in the Park
15. A New Day Will Come
16. Searching
17. Welcome to America, Welcome to New York
18. Across the Sea of Time

Reception

Box office

Across the Sea of Time grossed $16,015,639.

External links

• Across the Sea of Time at IMDb
• Across the Sea of Time at the TCM Movie Database
• Across the Sea of Time at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Across the Sea of Time at Box Office Mojo
• Across the Sea of Time at Rotten Tomatoes