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Call for submissions closed 21 December 2007

SUBMISSIONS ENTERED

v) Award for Best Use of Footage in an Arts, Music or Drama Production

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

ALL ABOUT ABIGAIL'S PARTY

Company name:

BBC Entertainment

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

28/10/07

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC Four

Programme Duration (Mins):

60'

Producer:

Alexandra Briscoe

Director:

 

Footage Archive Researcher:

Jessica Rajna

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

BBC Archive

2

Gaumont Pathe Archives

3

ITN

4

ITN/Granada

5

ITN/Reuters

Brief Synopsis in English

The story of Abigail's Party from theatre to TV play and its life beyond

Reason for submission in English

30th Anniversary of first tx of Abigail's Party

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

ARENA: UNDERGROUND

Company name:

Lone Star Productions

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

18/03/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC4

Programme Duration (Mins):

60

Producer:

Martin Rosenbaum

Director:

Zimena Percival

Footage Archive Researcher:

Andrew Wright

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

BBC Archive

2

London Transport Museum

3

ITN Source

4

 

5

 

Brief Synopsis in English

In Arena: Underground we travel 150 years through a thrilling and mysterious world on an adventure through tube history using literature, music and film inspired by the Underground.

Reason for submission in English

Exceptional access to rare archive footage from the London Transport Museum and unused BBC transport footage and original use of this material in an art documentary.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

BBC ARENA

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

BOB MARLEY- EXODUS '77

Company name:

BBC

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

3rd June 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC2

Programme Duration (Mins):

90

Assoc Producer:

Rosemary Tratt

Director:

Anthony Wall

Footage Archive Researcher:

Andrew Wright

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

BBC

2

INA

3

TVNZ

4

ITN Source/Nine Network Australia

5

Universal

Brief Synopsis in English

1977 was the year that Bob Marley, with Exodus, reached the whole world. Time magazine voted it the Album of the Century. From Exodus and the legendary concert at the Rainbow in the summer of ’77 Marley took reggae music and the message of Rastafari to the world. Arena: Bob Marley – Exodus ’77 is an evocation of the spirit of Marley’s most significant album and of the year 1977, a time and place that seem very far away now. This is a film about the impact of the world on Bob Marley and of Bob Marley on the world.

Reason for submission in English

Arena: Bob Marley- Exodus '77 demonstrates ground-braking innovation in the use of film archive. Drawing on news and television archive from 1977 juxtaposed with the music and words of Bob Marley this film magically evokes the past. The sometimes surreal relationship between images and sound allow us to both see the archive images and hear Marley’s familiar music- and particularly his lyrics- as if for the first time. Setting major news events in the context of a strong and delicately rendered atmosphere of the time this film is the fruit of exemplary work in film research and skillful use of archive.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

BBC ARENA

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

DYLAN'S FOLK: THE PURE, THE BAD AND THE HOLY

Company name:

BBC Arena

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

14th October 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC FOUR

Programme Duration (Mins):

40

Assoc Producer:

Rosemary Tratt

Director:

Anthony Wall

Footage Archive Researcher:

Andrew Wright

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

BBC

2

ITN/Granada

3

Clips & Footage

4

APTN

5

MLF Productions

Brief Synopsis in English

The Pure the Bad and the Holy reintroduces the world of the American folk revival, a world from which the young Bob Dylan emerged. The Newport folk festival was its crucible. In 1963 it provided the perfect platform for Dylan, under the patronage of Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, to be acknowledged as the principal voice of folk music. Comprised of rarely seen archive of TV performances The Pure, The Bad and The Holy features the other stars of the time – Peter Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Pete Seeger, the Godfather of it all.

Reason for submission in English

The Pure the Bad and the Holy uncovers a feast of television performances by the biggest stars of the 1960’s folk revival. Each performance shines out belying thoughtful and musically sensitive archive research. These rarely seen performance treats are woven into the rich story of the milieu in which Bob Dylan emerged. The creative deployment of footage from Newport Folk Festival and UK television paints an evocative picture of the atmosphere of the times. This film gives us a unique chance to go back in time and experience the awesome talent surrounding Dylan in the early 60s.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

BRASIL, BRASIL - 'TROPICALIA REVOLUTION'

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

2

Company name:

BBC - Music Entertainment

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

30/12/07

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC 4

Programme Duration (Mins):

60

Series number episodes:

3

Producer:

Robin Denselow

Director:

Robin Denselow

Footage Archive Researcher:

Jeannie Clark

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

RÁDIO E TELEVISÃO RECORD

2

CONTENT XP/GLOBO COMUNICAÇÕES E PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A.

3

FUNDAÇÃO PADRE ANCHIETA/TV CULTURA

4

RÁDIO E TELEVISÃO BANDEIRANTES

5

MURRAY LERNER - MLF PRODUCTIONS, INC

Brief Synopsis in English

The first comprehensive review of Brazilian music and history, this 3 part series tells the story of the styles and the artists that have for decades captured the world's imagination. Featuring nearly all of Brazil's major stars, the programmes include specially shot performances, interviews and rare archive footage. Part Two covers the military era from the Sixties to the Eighties, when singers were censored, jailed and exiled - but still produced some of the finest and most exciting music in Brazilian history, from Tropicalia to Samba-Reggae.

Reason for submission in English

Sourcing footage from film & television archives in Brazil is a challenging experience, hence most of the footage in Brasil, Brasil Ep 2 has not been seen before in the UK. The footage licensing laws in Brazil meant careful and persistent negotiation was required. The amazing film of 1960s riotous Brazil Song Festivals from TV Record was censored by the military govt at the time and has never been seen in the UK. Also discovered film of Tropicalia stars Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso performing at the Isle of Wight festival while they were in exile in the UK in 1970 courtesy of Murray Lerner who searched through all his rushes to supply us with film never seen anywhere before. Although footage of social upheaval in Europe and the US in the 60s is often seen in documentaries, much less common is the shocking footage of the Brazilian experience where the military clampdown on social and political unrest was much harsher and forced many artists into exile.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

CAR MEN

Company name:

NPS

Country of Origin of cited work:

The Netherlands

First Transmission / Publication Date:

January 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

NPS

Programme Duration (Mins):

28 min. 15 sec.

Producer:

Michiel Hobbelink

Director:

Boris Pavel Conen

Footage Archive Researcher:

Ronny Temme

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

Nederlands Filmmuseum

2

 

3

 

4

 

5

 

Brief Synopsis in English

This slapsticklike, burlesque production in which four former dancers of the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) present the archetypal characters from the opera Carmen of Bizet. Besides the restless and seductive Carmen there is Don José hopelessly in love, Escamillo the conqueror and Michaëla the naïve Samaritan. It's not bulls this time but cars. A sort of tribute to Buster Keaton. For the location of this tragicomedy this surrealistic black and white film, Boris Pavel Conen and choreographer Jirí Kylián went to a brown coalmine in the Czech Republic where Kylián made the choreography on the spot.

Reason for submission in English

For the dance-film CAR MEN one of the primal inspirations was old footage of a car-race slapstick film from the early twenties.  At first the renowned choreographer Jirí Kylián wanted to use this footage in a ballet-production. A few years later, during the writing of the script for CAR MEN with the director Boris Paval Conen, they decided to actually use this archival footage in the film and create the suggestion that their own dancers drove the race-cars. To make this convincing they had to re-shoot all the close and medium shots  in a bluescreen studio (because in the total shots the actors are not recognisable) and edit them later in the sequence. During the postproduction these shots were digital altered so that they matched the rest of the old film-stock. Because of the convincing prop-making, the clothing and the acting of the dancers, the race-scenes became a surprisingly authentic part of this original dance-film.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

CLASSIC BRITANNIA

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

The Landscape Changes

Company name:

BBC TV Four

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

22/06/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC TV Four

Programme Duration (Mins):

52mins

Series number episodes:

3

Producer:

Andy King-Dabbs

Director:

Andy King Dabbs

Footage Archive Researcher:

Angela Spindler-Brown

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

BBC Archive

2

North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University

3

Huntley Film Archives

4

Footage Farm

5

British Movietone

Brief Synopsis in English

The story of Classical Music in Britain after the Second World War

Reason for submission in English

Angela Spindler-Brown sourced archive material from a variety of private, public and commercial libraries. In many instances the cans holding film reels had to be forced to open, as they hadn't been screen since the actual recording in the late 1940s. Archive material for the documentary was digitised from many formats from 8mm film to U-Matic tape. thus in this case the claim that unique, never seen before archive footage used is no exaggerating. The programme skilfully uses variety of contextual and unique performance archive which was assembled and thus provides a strong visual backing to the story of British classical music in the post second world war Britain.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

GUERNICA , PORTRAIT OF WAR

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

Guernica , Portrait of War

Company name:

Televisio de Catalunya

Country of Origin of cited work:

Spain

First Transmission / Publication Date:

January 21, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

TV3 (Televisio de Catalunya)

Programme Duration (Mins):

67

Producer:

Muntsa Tarres

Director:

Santiago Torres

Footage Archive Researcher:

Teresa Ibars

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

Pathé Archives

2

NO-DO

3

TVE (Television Espanola)

4

INA

5

Filmoteca Nacional Catalunya

Brief Synopsis in English

70 years ago, German planes bombed the town of Guernica flat on the orders of General Franco. The sacred Basque city was reduced to ashes. The brutal attack inspired Picasso to paint the masterpiece “ Guernica”. Ever since then, this canvas has been seen as a universal cry against the barbarity of war.

Reason for submission in English

A great deal of delving into archives was involved in making “ Guernica, A Portrait of War”. The material for the program came from over 50 documentary and photo archives from around the world. The documentary contains a great deal of new and little-known footage and photos.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

HEAVY WATER: A FILM FOR CHERNOBYL

Company name:

Seventh Art Productions

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK , Ukraine

First Transmission / Publication Date:

26 April 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

SkyArts

Programme Duration (Mins):

52'

Producer:

Phil Grabsky

Director:

David Bickerstaff & Phil Grabsky

Footage Archive Researcher:

Bethan Roberts

Footage Archive Researcher(2):

David Bickerstaff

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

UNDP Ukraine

2

 

3

 

4

 

5

 

Brief Synopsis in English

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster (26th April 2006), Seventh Art Productions presents HEAVY WATER: A FILM FOR CHERNOBYL. Using works from Mario Petrucci’s award-winning book-length poem for Chernobyl, Heavy Water, the film tells the story of the explosion and its catastrophic aftermath.

Reason for submission in English

This film could not have been made without the striking and haunting archive footage and we feel that this is what makes the film what it is, with our unique visual style.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

HIGHWAY WORLD - LIVING, CHANGING, GROWING

Company name:

martinhansschmitt.com

Country of Origin of cited work:

Germany

First Transmission / Publication Date:

Where published (Channel/Website):

Programme Duration (Mins):

81

Producer:

Martin Hans Schmitt

Director:

Martin Hans Schmitt

Footage Archive Researcher:

Martin Hans Schmitt

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

Prelinger Archives

2

Volkswagen Archives

3

DaimlerChrysler Archives

4

BilfingerBerger Archives

5

 

Brief Synopsis in English

Highway World - living, changing, growing" is a visual concept, embedded between asphalt and the mobile human being. In this documentary film, the spectator sets out on a trip throughout giant highway construction sites in Africa, high-tech factories of the global car manufacturing corporations and multi-storey US highways. The footage, distilled from the industrial context, as well as Paisley Music (Ambient musical style) of sitar master Al Gromer Khan lead to a contemplative immersion into the highway worlds. The film manages without any comment.

Reason for submission in English

The associative documentary film comprises commercial, educational and scientific footage as well as computer animations from the fields of automotive industry, traffic research and personal footage of the director and private people. The entire associative documentary film (a crossover of compilation and found footage film) was composed out of more than 63 hours of film, video material and 1.700 photos. Since the documentary film is nonverbal the footage can be understood on a real universal level. The archival moving pictures speak, so to say, for themselves.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

MARCELLO MASTROIANNI: THE APPEAL OF AN ORDINARY MAN

Company name:

Rai Teche

Country of Origin of cited work:

Italy

First Transmission / Publication Date:

 

Where published (Channel/Website):

 

Programme Duration (Mins):

60

Producer:

 

Director:

Daniela Piccioni & Sandro Lai

Footage Archive Researcher:

 

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

Rai

2

X

3

X

4

X

5

X

Brief Synopsis in English

An homage to Marcello Mastroianni and his career, through archive footage from the Rai repertoire, including interviews, specials, backstage, and awards ceremonies. Handsome and photogenic, his talent always made him stand out, both on stage and on set and allowed him to play a vast array of characters seamlessly. His persona left a deep mark in the panorama of Italian post-war cinema. His career took off right from his university years, when he joined the Centro universitario teatrale, and met Luchino Visconti, who cast him for important roles such as "Un tram chiamato desiderio". In cinema, he felt aat ease with playing both the more serious neo-realist roles as much as the lighter characters in comedies. The turning point of his career takes place when he gets the part of a modern anti-hero in "La dolce vita!, the seminal movie which is an epitome of Italy and Italians, and which also symbolises the start of a very successfull personal and professional relationship with Federico Fellini.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

NUCLEAR SECRETS

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

Vanunu and the Bomb

Company name:

BBC TV

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

February 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC TV 2

Programme Duration (Mins):

60 minutes

Series number episodes:

five

Producer:

Nat Sharman

Director:

Nat Sharman

Footage Archive Researcher:

Angela Spindler-Brown

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

AP

2

Video Press

3

United Studios of Israel

4

ITN Source

5

S-Film Moscow

Brief Synopsis in English

The history of the way the state of Israel obtained the nucelar weapons and the story of Vanunu who told the world about it.

Reason for submission in English

Unique and rarely seen footage, a description often used but in this case true, obtained from many sources all over the world. The archive illustrates the way Israel obtained the knowledge how to make the nuclear bomb but also shows how the politics - invisible than and now were employed in that process. The authentic visual material helped to give the story historical backbone and structure and also became an absolutely necessary evidence.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

ONCE UPON A TIME IN NEW YORK

Company name:

BBC - Music Entertainment

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

05/03/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC 4

Programme Duration (Mins):

60

Producer:

Ben Whalley

Director:

Ben Whalley

Footage Archive Researcher:

Jeannie Clark

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

D-MAN/RIC SHORE

2

GLOBAL IMAGEWORKS

3

INA - INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L'AUDIOVISUEL

4

BOB GRUEN

5

NICKY SIANO

Brief Synopsis in English

How the squalid streets of 70s New York gave birth to music that would go on to conquer the world - punk, disco and hip hop. In the 1970s the big apple was rotten to the core, yet out of the grime, grit and low rent space emerged new music unlike anything that had gone before..... Inspired by Andy Warhol protégés the Velvet Underground, a new wave of 'punk' rock emerged in gritty lower Manhattan including The New York Dolls, The Ramones and the Patti Smith Group. Meanwhile, downtown loft parties held by gay New Yorkers heralded the birth of disco, which would eventually spawn the ultimate club for the privileged few: Studio 54. The swanky mid-town discos were out of bounds to black New York so in the Bronx DJs such as Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa created their own parties, heralding the birth of hip hop.

Reason for submission in English

Telling the story of punk, disco and hip hop in 70s New York relied on finding footage of the key clubs, discos and street scenes in their early heydays. The mainstream media did not catch on to these alternative forms of music and lifestyles until later when they gained some success & notoriety. The challenge was therefore to find the filmmakers who were enterprising enough to have captured this scene - like the students who made a film about punk club CBGB's with a great early Ramones performance and a wildly enthusiastic bohemian audience (D-Man/Ric Shore) and Nicky Siano's footage of freestyle dancers at his own disco, The Gallery. The rich mix of footage of New York City life in the 70s, pre Mayor Guiliani's clean-up campaign, was instrumental in setting the music scene in context - thanks to the BBC archives and INA - who would have thought a French archive would have the best footage of NY's tough street gangs!

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

PSYCHEDELIC REVOLUTION ´67

Company name:

Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH

Country of Origin of cited work:

Germany

First Transmission / Publication Date:

July 3, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

ARTE

Programme Duration (Mins):

67

Producer:

Stefan Kloos

Director:

Christoph Dreher

Footage Archive Researcher:

Stefan Kloos

Footage Archive Researcher(2):

Kerstin Brandes

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

Merry Pranksters

2

ITN Source

3

Construction

4

Pennebaker Hegedus FIlms

5

British Film Institute

Brief Synopsis in English

1967: A creative interaction between the arts, drug experiments and music culminates in the SUMMER OF LOVE – a historical event and dramatic point of change for youth culture and society. Filmmaker Christoph Dreher travelled the centres of the PSYCHEDELIC REVOLUTION. He set out on his journey through the U.S. and England to find out from some of the survivors what happened to their attitudes and utopian ambitions from back then. The film presents numerous interviews with e.g. Kim Fowley, Ken Babbs and George Walker of THE MERRY PRANKSTERS, Factory-Icon Mary Woronov, Tony Conrad and LOVE´s Johnny Echols, as well as rare archive footage. PSYCHEDELIC REVOLUTION ´67 was core part of ARTE´s theme night “PSYCHEDELIA” which opened ARTE´s SUMMER OF LOVE-special programming on July 3, 2007.

Reason for submission in English

One of the film´s aims was to show the spirit and long lasting effect of the Summer of Love without merely exhibiting library footage that is well known and has very often been used. The filmmaker thus was looking for a good mix between visual points of reference for the viewer, and never-seen before-footage taken from various sources and filmed in most different styles. The research and production crew worked very tightly together with the director and the editor providing suitable material for the creation of an original visual experience while at the same time capturing the events and the spirit of this remarkable time.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

SOUL BRITANNIA - 'I FEEL GOOD'

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

1/3

Company name:

BBC Music Entertainment

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

02/02/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC 4

Programme Duration (Mins):

60

Series number episodes:

3

Producer:

Jeremy Marre

Director:

Jeremy Marre

Footage Archive Researcher:

Kalbir Dhillon

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

Maverick Enterprises

2

Archbuild Entertainment

3

Contemporary Films (representing Peter Whitehead)

4

Studio Hamburg

5

Film Images

Brief Synopsis in English

Programme One of Soul Britannia reveals how Soul music from America and the Caribbean transformed British music, fashions and culture during the '60s. A generation of young white music fans fell in love with black music in the 60s and sold it back to America while a generation of immigrants from the Caribbean helped introduce Soul and Ska to Britain and helped launch a new youth culture. Featuring rare archive performances and interviews with: Van Morrison, Tom Jones, Solomon Burke, Elton John, Sam Moore, Georgie Fame, Eric Burdon and many others.

Reason for submission in English

This first episode of "Soul Britannia" depicts the black immigrant experience in Britain during the 1950s and 60s in terms of the music they brought with them and how it was absorbed into and influenced by British culture. British Movietone and British Pathe's excellent newsreels portray the social scene at the time but the film was massively enhanced with the use of little-seen footage, sourced by Kal Dhillon, such as the glorious Technicolor 'Edmundo Ros Half Hour' from 1957, Maverick's 'Sweet Soul Music' (an outstanding record of the energetic Stax UK Tour of 1967) and some great footage of The Vagabonds on tour courtesy of Peter Whitehead which helped to outline the influences of American R&B and soul on the burgeoning Black British musical landscape. 'Soul Britannia' episode 1 also featured rare performances from the likes of Louis Prima and Solomon Burke from the Film Images archives and some great early performances from the incomparable Geno Washington from Studio Hamburg's excellent music archive. Kal also unearthed footage that really captures the reach of Black musical influence across Britain's cities such as a great documentary from 1964 called 'Beat City' from the Archbuild Entertainment vaults about the early Liverpool music scene featuring a slick performance by The Chants later to become The Real Thing.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE RELIEF OF BELSEN

Company name:

Hardy & Sons

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

October 15 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

Channel 4 , UK

Programme Duration (Mins):

102' 40" in 120' slot

Producer:

Sue Horth

Director:

Justin Hardy

Footage Archive Researcher:

Sue Horth

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

Imperial War Museum

2

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

3

 

4

 

5

 

Brief Synopsis in English

In early April 1945 a small British ambulance unit was diverted from frontline battle in northern Germany, to handle an unfolding medical crisis behind enemy lines. A local prison camp had suffered an outbreak of typhus. That prison camp was Bergen-Belsen. The British had no idea of the scale of this humanitarian catastrophe - nor of what it would come to represent. 40,000 prisoners herded into a concentration camp of unspeakable squalor; deprived of food, clothing and medical supplies for nearly a month; tortured and stripped of their humanity. Yet somehow, as the war raged, an international medical team battled against the odds to build a new hospital, and save their lives.

Reason for submission in English

Archive footage was the key to this film and determined the way in which the drama itself was scripted and shot. It was always the film-makers' intention to let the horror speak for itself through original footage, so that images which have over the years come to symbolize the holocaust in its entirety, could once again be set in their original context - the chaos of those first four weeks after liberation. The juxtaposition of the archive and drama portrays the harrowing events with great sensitivity. There is an almost seamless flow between the two, with no attempt to disguise the drama from the archive using reconstructions or altering the archive film to fit. It is the use of archive film in almost its 'purest' sense, with the images - in this case - continuing the story of the drama without intervention.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE SEVEN AGES OF ROCK

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

White Light/White Heat

Company name:

BBC

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

26.5.07

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC2

Programme Duration (Mins):

60 mins

Series number episodes:

7

Producer:

Francis Whately

Director:

Francis Whately

Footage Archive Researcher:

Declan Smith

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

BBC

2

INA

3

North West Film Archive

4

COI

5

ZDF

Brief Synopsis in English

How rock became a vehicle for artistic ideas and theatrical performance. From the pop-art multi-media experiments of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground to the sinister gentility of Peter Gabriel’s Genesis, this episode traces the story of how artistic and conceptual expression permeated rock. The film follows Pink Floyd from the fated art school genius of Syd Barrett via the global success of Dark Side of the Moon to the ultimate rock theatre show – 'The Wall'. Along the way, the film explores the retro-futurism of Roxy Music and the protean world of David Bowie.

Reason for submission in English

This film assembles an impressive range of rare and unseen footage to tell the story of ‘Art Rock’. With imagination and flair that mirror the music and the artists featured, the music clips are edited together with a surprising and dizzying array of archive footage, from natural history to government propaganda, from student films to social realist documentary. This has created an impressionistic collage that perfectly matches the varying moods of the narrative.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD

Company name:

Tiger Aspect Productions

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

29 April 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC4

Programme Duration (Mins):

60

Producer:

Suzanne Lavery

Director:

Damon Thomas

Footage Archive Researcher:

Jacqui Edwards

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

British Film Institute

2

The Scott Polar Institute

3

ITN Source- British Pathe Collection

4

BBC Motion Gallery

5

October Films

Brief Synopsis in English

To this day Captain’s Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition in 1910 - 1913 remains a testament to an age of courage and tragic heroism - but it’s rarely remembered that prior to that fateful journey Scott and his men spent two years conducting scientific experiments in that harsh environment. One such task saw three men set forth in the snow, facing the most extreme of conditions and risking their lives and their sanity – all for a penguin egg. The Worst Journey in the World, starring Mark Gatiss, tells this often overlooked story of epic endurance. This is a quintessentially British tale that captures the essence of the Edwardian explorer: a team of idealists, ill-equipped, under-prepared and almost overwhelmed by the elements, yet willing to risk their lives in the interests of science.

Reason for submission in English

We are submitting this film in recognition of the outstanding contribution of our Archivist, Jacqui Edwards, in realizing Director, Damon Thomas’ vision for the film. Without the opportunity to travel to Antarctica, we were wholly dependent on archive footage to paint the picture of the bleak landscape which Cherry, Bowers and Captain Wilson battled against in search of a penguin’s egg. Splicing our dramatic sequences, all shot within Central London, with Jacqui’s amazing archive footage, gives the film a real sense of the immensity of Antarctica and the gargantuan task faced by our heroes.

 

Title of Production/Series cited:

YEHUDI MENUHIN - THE SWISS YEARS

Company name:

Mesch & Ugge AG

Country of Origin of cited work:

Switzerland

First Transmission / Publication Date:

05.08.2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

SF1 (Swiss Television)

Programme Duration (Mins):

56

Producer:

Beat Hirt

Director:

Felice Zenoni

Footage Archive Researcher:

Felice Zenoni

Footage Archive Researcher(2):

Martina Egi

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:

INA, France

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Cinémateque , Switzerland

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Archives of SRG/SSR

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Menuhin Family Archive

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Menuhin School , England

Brief Synopsis in English

Yehudi Menuhin, the greatest violin virtuoso of the 20th century, to Switzerland in the mid 1950s. S