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for Best Use of Footage in Electronic Publishing
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Nominations details
Cited Work |
Immigration - DVD |
Production Company |
Film Australia |
Producer |
Paul Byrnes & Penelope McDonald |
Director / Writer |
Paul Byrnes & Penelope McDonald |
| Film/VT Editor |
Denise Haslem |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Bev Dalgairns & Anna Nolan |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Film Australia Library |
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Film World and Cinesound |
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Movietone Productions |
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UN High Commission for Refugees |
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ScreenSound Australia |
Duration |
195 minutes |
First Shown |
2004 |
Country of Origin |
Australia |
Synopsis |
An exploration of immigration and Australia - the people, policies and propaganda. |
Reasons for Submission |
Film Australia has made more than 100 films relating to immigration since 1946 - the largest single archival source in Australia for films on this topic. The producers set out to make a DVD that looked at the intersection of film, migration and politics. In particular, they wanted to look at the way film was used to promote the government's migration schemes and to encourage the acceptance of new migrants to Australia. The aim was to bring the best of the rich source to light in a DVD for a general audience and for use in schools and tertiary colleges. |
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| JURY COMMENTS |
A DVD from Film Australia - simple yet well realised and enables a full range of users to explore in depth a series of subject specific films. It is rich in wonderful archive material, sets each film nicely in context and gives an excellent insight into the politics of why and how they were made. It allows the archive film to be the real star. |
Cited Work |
Images de guerre - DVD-Rom |
Production Company |
INA |
Producer |
Jean-Pierre Mabille |
| Director |
Xavier Lemarchand |
| Designer |
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| Archive Researcher (s) |
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| Top Sources of Footage |
INAmédia |
First Shown |
DVD-Rom, 3/06/2006 |
Country of Origin |
France |
Synopsis |
Images de guerre is a DVD-Rom allowing viewing and navigation of footage, from cinema newsreels produced in occupied France, between 1940 and 1945 (archieved in Ina-France) within 5 hours of selection. The selected newsreels offer an accurate and rare testimony of everyday life in invaded France as well as of key events and milestones in second world war. Evidently they are akin to propaganda documents produced in wartime and famous historians (directed by Olivier Wievorka) have helped decypher them by producing descriptive, contextual and analytic apparatus as well as thematic and didactic pathways. The hypermedia tools enable active and critical appropriation of an outstanding audiovisual heritage from a troubled era. |
Reasons for Submission |
Because of the propaganda bias of these newsreels the analytic and contextual contents provide the user with a thorough understanding of sources: 17 thematic pathways, 75 addenda documents (texts, maps, charts), 145 historical notes, comprehensive indexation of all available documents. The tools and technical apparatus available in this DVD-Rom are the results of innovative technical research at Ina Hypermedia studio for the past 5 years. They offer a very user friendly environment for navigation in vast amount of digitized AV archives. - Simple or advanced video search engine that enable direct access to precise locations within the videos (i.e sentences in which a selected word is uttered ) - Based-time navigation in the video browser through either synchronised transcription or shot by shot editing. - Multimedia notepad for storage of selected extracts, annotation, and customized organisation, editing and viewing, particularly useful in school or academic contexts). |
To have a quick tour click here
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www.ina.fr/production/studio/ressources/IDG/index.html Click on Visite guideé vidéo |
| JURY COMMENTS |
A DVD-Rom from INA, allowing viewing and navigation of footage, from cinema newsreels produced in occupied France between 1940 and 1945, and archived in INA. This work is an impressive multimedia educational tool designed for PC use and encompassing remarkable functionality for research and access, via library archive and thematic processes, and project editing. It contains comprehensive coverage, is well presented, easy to use, and contains an impressive five hours of archive material. |
Cited Work |
Inamédia: www.inamedia.com |
Production Company |
INA,
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel |
| Top Sources of Footage |
INAmédia |
First Shown |
www.inamedia.com, 29/03/2004 |
Country of Origin |
France |
Synopsis |
Inamédia is the second phase Ina's digitisation plan: after preserving 200,000 hours of content (to date) Ina has developed a tool dedicated to the professional users of archives allowing them to access this treasure remotely, from a simple PC. It allows users to search the entire database, to screen the programmes, to make their own excerpts and to send this information to the Ina teams for quick processing. Furthermore, the 2,000,000 production fact-sheets are automatically translated into English to ensure easy access for all the non French-speaking users. More than 1,000 users have already made Inamédia a regular research tool. Inamédia has been developed in-house using specialist subcontractors as necessary (design / ergonomics / security…). The investment for this project, started in 1999 in parallel with the digitisation, is around 700,000 €. |
Reasons for Submission |
With more than 200,000 hours of digitised contents Inamédia is at the moment the largest on-line database of digital archive material anywhere in the world. More than a web site, we like to consider Inamédia as a “web tool”. From anywhere in the world and with a computer connected to a high-speed Internet link, any researcher can dive into 50 years of archives in French or in English. Inamédia allows screening in a professional format, permitting users to make clips with the usual method of ‘Time-code in’ / ‘Time-code out’, to organise their work into different, user-designed ‘bins’ (saved as long as you need them) and finally to place an order. No need to go to Paris (sorry!), Inamédia provides maximum of time-saving efficiency. To us at Ina, preserving archives would be pointless if that was to keep them only for a “happy few”. It is Ina's mission to communicate and make this vast wealth of archive images as widely accessible as possible using the latest digital technology, yet preserving them as the nation's heritage for future generations. |
To look at the Inamedia website click here
www.inamedia.com |
A special log in system has been set up for all people wanting
to test Inamedia for the purpose of the Focal Awards :
- The User Id. is : focal (lower case)
- The password is : awards (lower case)
Another difference : After having selected your programmes and / or made
your clips, registered users can send the information through a
'basket' (bin) to the sales person in charge of the logged in customer
and these 'orders' trigger an automatic processing system.
For the purpose of the tests the basket functionality remains available
but this basket is sent to the Inamedia team to avoid starting the
'true' ordering process.
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| JURY COMMENTS |
The web site from INA, www.inamedia.com, an on-line business-to-business tool with automatic translation of text records for accessing and viewing much of the institute's 200,000 hours of digitised archival content, is the result of an enormous and on-going project. It rightly claims to be the largest on-line database of digital archive material anywhere in the world and is a great achievement.
(The Inamedia submission seems to the Restoration Jury to deserve a category of its own. In its sheer scale it is a staggering achievement, but it is primarily about access and online delivery of an entire collection rather than a one-off restoration or DVD presentation. Having said this, however, we would also like to stress that the picture quality of Inamedia’s streaming is very high, indicating that it is working from well cared for original material and its finding tools are a pleasure to use.) |
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