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Released
1996 · FILM

Timepiece

Directed by
Runtime
100 min
DramaTV Movie

Synopsis

Set in the 1940s, the story follows an old clockmaker, played by James Earl Jones, who faces racism and is put on trial for murder after a racist man is found dead. Kevin Kilner steps forward, claiming he committed the crime in self-defense. Meanwhile, Kilner's personal life is in turmoil, as his family deals with multiple crises, including his daughter contracting meningitis.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Janet Bartels VandagriffShot by John NewbyScored by Eric ColvinDesigned by Michael Paul Clausen

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