Title of Production/Series cited:

1927: THE COALHOUSE YEAR

Company name:

BBC Wales

Country of Origin of cited work:

Wales

First Transmission / Publication Date:

Wed 31st Oct 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC 1 Wales

Programme Duration (Mins):

29 mins

Producer:

Dave Jones

Director:

Dave Jones

Footage Archive Researcher:

Kevin John

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Rosemary Scadden

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

ITN Source (Pathe)

2

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

1927 – The Coalhouse Year (An archive programme about life in 1927 – made to accompany the BBC Wales reality series Coalhouse) A host of familiar faces from BBC Wales are transported back in time to report on the events of 1927. With the magic of TV, Jamie Owen presents a vintage newsreel featuring Bluebird breaking the land speed record and Cardiff City winning the FA Cup. Dressed in period costumes, the reporters were filmed as if they were actually there, watching events unfold.

Reason for submission in English

The challenge was to make a populist archive documentary with very expensive mute footage – on a small budget! So we decided to decided to bring the show alive by adding our own 1920s ‘eye witness reports’ and ‘interviews’ based on historical accounts. Film editor Keith Ware said: “Making modern video footage of the presenters and actors look like it had been shot in the 20s was quite a challenge. I spent hours adding scratches, making the picture wobble and putting it out of focus. The worse I made it look, the more the director liked it!”

Production/Series cited:

9/11: GROUND ZERO UNDERWORLD

Company name:

Testimony Films

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

September 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

Channel 4/ U.S. History Channel

Programme Duration (Mins):

60 mins

Series number episodes:

1

Producer:

Steve Humphries

Director:

Steve Humphries

Footage Archive Researcher:

David Long

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

FEMA

2

FBI

3

ABC

4

CNN

5

ETIENNE SOURET

Brief Synopsis in English

With access to extraordinary footage shot by emergency workers this is the epic story of the search for friends and family beneath Ground Zero. The film explores the grief of the families who lost loved ones and the heroic efforts to recover the bodies of the dead and identify them using the latest DNA techniques.

Reason for submission in English

The film attracted huge audiences and much critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. The plaudits were for telling an important yet disturbing story with great sensitivity. The archive uncovered -some of it very shocking- was also used with great restraint. The emotional impact of the film was all the greater for the respectful way the stories and archive were interwoven.

Production/Series cited:

AFTER FIDEL

Company name:

Memory Films Inc

Country of Origin of cited work:

Canada

First Transmission / Publication Date:

November 23, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

History Television

Programme Duration (Mins):

70 minutes

Producer:

Michael Maclear

Director:

Michael Maclear

Footage Archive Researcher:

Elizabeth Klinck

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

Mundo Latino

2

CBC

3

Roberto Chile Personal Archives

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

After almost 50 years in power, a gravely ill Fidel Castro has handed the reins to his little known brother, Raul, and all of Cuba tenses for the reality of life after Fidel. Fidel has outlasted ten U.S. presidents and in the process dictatorially shaped this small island nation into a global force unlike any other: a Third World nation that exports soldiers, doctors, and teachers to other emerging nations. Now the struggle is at home: to withstand the inevitable onslaught of American interests and ideology After Fidel. In this documentary, former network television correspondent Michael Maclear revisits an extraordinary interview he conducted with Castro several months after he took power.

Reason for submission in English

The archival material in AFTER FIDEL brings the past to life and a enhances a personal story that spans 50 years . It draws upon interviews and footage filmed days after Castro came to power, from the archives of Castro’s personal cinematographer Roberto Chile, and never before seen material from Cuba’s Mundo Latino collection. Deftly interwoven with present day footage, the rich archival material provides the backdrop, and more importantly, the much needed presence of Fidel himself – as he was too ill to be filmed when the crew was on location last year in Cuba.

Production/Series cited:

ANDERE TIJDEN (CHANGING TIMES)

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

FROM D-DAY TO DAM SQUARE

Company name:

NPS

Country of Origin of cited work:

The Netherlands

First Transmission / Publication Date:

3 May 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

Netherlands 2

Programme Duration (Mins):

50

Series number episodes:

1

Producer:

Laura Kaandorp

Director:

Matthijs Cats

Footage Archive Researcher:

Gerard Nijssen

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Sara Plat

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

Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre

2

National Film Board of Canada

3

Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst The Netherlands

4

CBC Radio Archives

5

National Archives Washington

Brief Synopsis in English

Starting with D-day (1944), the First Canadian Army constituted the left wing of the Allied Forces. After passing through France and Belgium (with some fierce battles against the Germans) they end up in Holland. With its many rivers and channels, Holland is easy to defend for the Germans, hence a nightmare for the Allied Troops. Especially the province of Zeeland is difficult to attack. In 1944 and 1945 this area becomes a bloody battlefield. After the Allied Forces finally beat the Germans in Zeeland, they march to the next province Brabant. Bit by bit Holland is liberated. To the expense of many Canadian lives. But also to the great joy and happiness of the Dutch people who adore ‘their’ liberators and celebrate freedom in endless parades and parties.

Reason for submission in English

From D-day to the Dam is a special and unique project of the dutch history program ‘Changing Times’ (Andere Tijden). This documentary is fully based on footage-material. It tells the story of Canadian Soldiers liberating Europe (and Holland) during World War II. With breath-taking accuracy the Canadian Army Photo and Film Unit filmed the army during their march through France and Belgium, to end in Holland. Accompanied only by fragments of letters and diaries in the sound, the images show the soldier’s life; the sorrow and the joy, the military difficulties and victories. It is a war ‘road movie’ which keeps the viewer in a spell; with the original footage-material (and the original texts from personal documents) we are as close to the ‘real’ life as we can get.

Title of Production/Series cited:

ANDREW MARR'S HISTORY OF MODERN BRITAIN

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

ADVANCE BRITANNIA

Company name:

BBC

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

22nd May 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC Two

Programme Duration (Mins):

59'06'

Series number episodes:

5

Producer:

Tom Giles

Director:

Tom Giles

Footage Archive Researcher:

Stuart Robertson

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

BBC

2

ITN SOURCE

3

BRITISH MOVIETONE

4

CANAL+

5

BFI

Brief Synopsis in English

In his widely acclaimed History of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr gives an epic account of the events that have shaped our lives since the end of the Second World War. With a dynamic mixture of footage shot specially on location and archive of actual events, Marr wittily weaves together crucial turning points and telling little details to charts the evolution of Britain’s place in the world since 1945. The many strands of our national story are brought convincingly to life by the use of a wide range of archive sources woven into a gripping national saga.

Reason for submission in English

Audiences and critics were drawn to this series by an extraordinary range of archive, which complemented Andrew Marr’s compelling story-telling. Archive drawn from every decade of the post-war period enhances his solid grasp of characters and events, and often adds a new layer to our national memory bank. Each piece of personal and political gossip is brought to life by carefully selected images and sound, which attracted a huge popular audience to revisit the dramas of our recent past.

Title of Production/Series cited:

BATTLE FOR THE HOLY LAND: JERUSALEM

Company name:

CTVC

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

19/05/07

Where published (Channel/Website):

Channel 4

Programme Duration (Mins):

113.02

Producer:

David Batty

Director:

David Batty

Footage Archive Researcher:

Harriet Matthews

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Nava Mizrachi

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

ITN Source

2

Israel Film Services

3

British Movietone

4

Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive

5

IBA

Brief Synopsis in English

This two hour special followed the journey of conflict-resolution specialist Lord Paddy Ashdown as he examined the historical, religious and political claims to “God’s City”. He threw himself into an emotionally challenging personal experience, coming face to face with the memories and the lives of ordinary Muslims and Jews as well as key players in the Six Day War story. Who owns Jerusalem is the intractable problem, at the heart of the Middle Eastern crisis. Battle for the Holy Land examined why the Holy City remains the most fought over piece of real-estate on the planet – and how , with greater understanding, we could move forward.

Reason for submission in English

The history of the city of Jerusalem is disputed. The only way in which to give evidence was to show history in the making. The archive used in the film did just that. Within days of the capture of the Western Wall, bulldozers were brought in by the Israeli army to destroy the Moroccan Quarter and make room for a plaza where thousands of Jews could and still do, go to worship. People across the globe were ignorant of this fact and some even disputed the existence of the Moroccan Quarter at all. In order to prove its existence and its destruction, CTVC searched the international archives, especially within Irael to find startling footage of the bulldozers in action.

Title of Production/Series cited:

BEING JEWISH IN FRANCE (Etre Juif en France)

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

Part 1 & Part 2

Company name:

Kuiv Productions

Country of Origin of cited work:

France

First Transmission / Publication Date:

6&7 of November, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

France 3

Programme Duration (Mins):

73' (part 1) & 112' (part 2)

Series number episodes:

2

Producer:

Michel Rotman

Director:

Yves Jeuland

Footage Archive Researcher:

Valérie Combard

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

INA

2

Gaumont Pathé

3

CDJC

4

Lobster

5

Ateliers des archives

Brief Synopsis in English

Since the Dreyfus affair that tore France apart, the history of France and its Jewish communities has continued to ignite passions. And yet an old Yiddish proverb goes: “Happy like a Jew in France.” From the wave of immigration of Yiddish speaking Jews to the exodus of others from North Africa, from World War I to Vichy, a group of men and women, French Jews or Jews in France, describe with humor and emotion these years filled with happiness and concern. The moving story of Jews in France illustrated by rare archival images, film clips and music. A story of darkness and light.

Reason for submission in English

This documentary film is made up of many rare archives. Moreover, many of them have never been seen before on TV.

Title of Production/Series cited:

BLOOD & BULLETS - THE STORY OF MILITARY MEDICINE

Company name:

The History Channel UK

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

7 Sept 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

The History Channel

Programme Duration (Mins):

47

Producer:

Toby Groom

Director:

Toby Groom

Footage Archive Researcher:

Toby Groom

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

Footage Farm

2

Sky News

3

Eagle React Archive

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

This is the untold story of the struggle to save soldiers’ lives, from the battlefield of Agincourt to the streets of Basra. Today we expect British soldiers to receive swift and expert medical attention, but for most of the past 600 years, British soldiers have instead experienced terrible neglect, suffering and needless death. It took centuries to turn this situation around. Presented by military historian Andrew Robertshaw, and co-produced with the National Army Museum, ‘Blood & Bullets’ explores one of military history’s most significant - and yet neglected -stories.

Reason for submission in English

‘Blood and Bullets’ uses archive film to illustrate a powerful, important and neglected story. The film uses footage filmed at the Western Front during the First World War to highlight the work of figures who are often in the background – Medical Officers, stretcher-bearers, ambulance-drivers. This film puts the activity of such people into context, explaining the sophistication and scale of their crucial role. The film also uses archive film of British casualty treatment and evacuation in Iraq, and footage of Royal Army Medical Corps training exercises to emphasise the growing sophistication of military medicine.

Title of Production/Series cited:

BRITAIN 'S LOVE STORY

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

Episode 1

Company name:

Testimony Films

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

October 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

ITV1

Programme Duration (Mins):

60 Mins

Series number episodes:

3

Producer:

Steve Humphries

Director:

Steve Humphries

Footage Archive Researcher:

Mary Parsons

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Roz Sinclair

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

ITN Source

2

BBC

3

Canal Plus

4

Carlton International

5

BFI

Brief Synopsis in English

The story of the revolution in love sex and marriage in Britain during the past fifty years. Episode 1 explores the dream of true love in the 1950s and 60s and the lasting impact it had from teenage years onwards. The film focuses on the love lives of five characters ranging from an ordinary housewife to Britain's most famous prostitute, who reveals that she too has always been a romantic at heart.

Reason for submission in English

The series attracted critical acclaim and large audiences- winning its slot against all competition for the three weeks of its run. Dramatic and heart rending it successfully delivered a very popular yet informative social history series for Britain's most commercial channel. The skilful interweaving of factual and feature film footage from the 50s and 60s -and the absence of any reconstruction- was well received by critics

Title of Production/Series cited:

BROKEN ARROW. NUCLEAR ACCIDENT IN PALOMARES-SPAIN

Company name:

Pitaco Producciones S.L.U.

Country of Origin of cited work:

Spain

First Transmission / Publication Date:

27-04-2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

Museo Arqueológico Almería-Spain

Programme Duration (Mins):

96

Producer:

Antonio Sánchez Picón

Director:

José María Herrera Plaza

Footage Archive Researcher:

Antonio Sánchez Picón

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Angel Roldán

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

National Archive Records Administration-Usa

2

Footage Farm Ltd

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

In January 1966 two American airplanes collided over Palomares (Almería/Spain) and as a consequence, four h-bombs fell to earth. Two of them explode their conventional charge and due to the strong wind radioactive material is scattered over the region. An intensive search is started to find the fourth bomb. At the same time decontamination process of the zone is starting and the residual contamination of persons and environment begins to be checked and also the project Indalo, still running 41 years later. The narration is strictly told by experts and the protagonist. It is complemented with documentary and audiovisual material, unpublished in its greater part, declassified in the last years, as well as scientific studies of the zone.

Reason for submission in English

Includes more than 8 hours unedited footage declassified about Palomares's nuclear accident.

Title of Production/Series cited:

BUTTERKINDER (Leaving for Bread and Butter)

Company name:

Knut Ogris Films&Àrea de Televisió& ORF Television& TV3 television

Country of Origin of cited work:

Austria

First Transmission / Publication Date:

21st of December

Where published (Channel/Website):

ORF ( Austria television)

Programme Duration (Mins):

52 minutes

Producer:

Knut Ogris & Oriol Porta

Director:

Alois Hawlik

Footage Archive Researcher:

Lisa Berger

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Katharina Geyer

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

ORF ARCHIVE

2

CARITAS INTERNATIONAL BELGIQUE

3

ÖNB BILDARCHIVE

4

RTVE (NODO)

5

FILMOTECA OF CATALUNYA

Brief Synopsis in English

Following WWII, in order to relieve the famine rampant among the population, the Austrian government initiated a campaign to send undernourished children abroad to help them get enough to eat. 4.000 were taken in by Spanish families.

Reason for submission in English

Because we believe that rescue the memory is an absolutely necessary fact to give us a sense for present time. Is a way to be always with history. Past connects us with present and helps to go through future.

Title of Production/Series cited:

CHE GUEVARA - THE BODY AND THE LEGEND

Company name:

ZDF/ARTE Theme night department

Country of Origin of cited work:

Italy

First Transmission / Publication Date:

2nd of october 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

ARTE Theme night

Programme Duration (Mins):

43'

Producer:

Stefano Missio

Director:

Raffaele Brunetti

Footage Archive Researcher:

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

Difilm Archivo Filmico. Buenos Aires, Argentina

2

Courtesy CNN, Vanderbild Television News Archive

3

The New York Times Co., Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico

4

Editorial Musica de Cuba

5

Transparencia Imagen International Bolivia, Illiamani de comunicaciones, Red ATB Bolivia

Brief Synopsis in English

The Cold War ended and the Soviet Union was dissolved. Only then was it possible to look beyond the myth of Che Guevara and begin to search for his “ghostly” remains, gone missing for some 30 years. From 1967 (the year of Che’s execution) to 1997 (the year his body was recovered) international political events kept the remains of Ernesto Che Guevara hidden from the world, making the recovery of history’s most famous revolutionary all but impossible.

Reason for submission in English

Che Guevara's legend is as alive as ever and he became one of the most powerful icons of the 20th century. Lots of footage for this great documentary produced by B&B Production in Rome was used by focal.

Title of Production/Series cited:

CONSTRUCTING AUSTRALIA: THE BRIDGE

Company name:

Film Australia

Country of Origin of cited work:

Australia

First Transmission / Publication Date:

18/03/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

ABC TV

Programme Duration (Mins):

55

Series number episodes:

1

Producer:

Renee Kennedy

Producer :

Simon Nasht

Director:

Simon Nasht

Footage Archive Researcher:

Carolyn Saul

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

FILMWORLD

2

National Film and Sound Archive

3

NSW STATE LIBRARY

4

STATE RECORDS OF NSW

5

Film Australia

Brief Synopsis in English

Massive, majestic, breathtaking—the Sydney Harbour Bridge was the greatest engineering challenge of its day anywhere on earth. Completed during the Great Depression, it is the legacy of a fateful partnership between two very different men - a brilliant engineer and a maverick politician - who shared a relentless ambition to create "the people's bridge". It not only altered the life of a city forever, it became a symbol of a bold young nation and a changing world. Celebrating the 75th anniversary of one of Australia's most loved icons, this is the epic and definitive story behind the building of the bridge and the vision of those who made it happen, despite personal conflict and political intrigue.

Reason for submission in English

"Simon Nasht, has masterfully interwoven archival footage and photographs, parliamentary debates, interviews with historians, and vividly realized factual drama to create a must see documentary for any one interested in this volatile time in Australia's development. I would highly recommend this film to historians and family historians for the wonderful insight it gives to this between-the-wars period of Australian life." History Australia Website, 18 March 2007

Title of Production/Series cited:

CUBA, AN AFRICAN ODYSSEY

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

2

Company name:

Temps noir

Country of Origin of cited work:

France

First Transmission / Publication Date:

2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC 4

Programme Duration (Mins):

59'

Series number episodes:

2

Producer:

Tancrède Ramonet

Director:

Jihan El Tahri

Footage Archive Researcher:

Emmanuelle Dumas

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Serge Garcin

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

ICAIC

2

CFAC

3

RTNC

4

BBC

5

Gaumont

Brief Synopsis in English

This film tells the story of the Cold War through the prism of its least known arena: Africa. Against colonialism, capitalism as well as communism, the newly independent nations attempted for the first time to gain real control of their own countries. Ironically, it was to Cuba’s new regime that the young African revolutionaries like Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral or Aghostino Neto turned for support in their struggle. Castro’s tiny island emerged as central player in this new strategy.

Reason for submission in English

This film tells the story of the Cold War through the prism of its least known arena: Africa. In order to relate such an untold and incredible story, Jihan El Tahri has mainly searched through Cuban and African records and found a huge amount footage. Working in collaboration with Le Chaînon Manquant, and especially Emmanuelle Dumas and Serge Garcin, she dealt with many unreleased footage, which sometimes were of very poor technical quality because they had been left unused for decades by the owners. With her cameraman, she decided to shoot the footage in HD format, and therefore contributed to upgrade the footage and help preserve this great heritage.

Title of Production/Series cited:

DARFUR : ON OUR WATCH

Company name:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Country of Origin of cited work:

Canada

First Transmission / Publication Date:

October 11, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

CBC Television

Programme Duration (Mins):

56:50

Producer:

Lisa Ellenwood

Director:

Neil Docherty

Footage Archive Researcher:

Sonja Carr

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

UNTV

2

Native Voice Films

3

ITN

4

APTN

5

BBC

Brief Synopsis in English

Darfur: On Our Watch examines why it took the UN so long to respond to the obvious early warning signs of an horrific ethnic cleansing in Sudan. It documents in detail how politics, oil, guns and money trumped human rights as powerful interests on the Security Council blocked the world from acting; and how the United States, weakened by wars in Somalia and Iraq could not influence the world forum to act. CBC cameras follow actress Mia Farrow on an emotionally harrowing journey through the desolate refugee camps along the Chad/ Darfur border.

Reason for submission in English

After compiling all the footage available, much of it quite gruesome, of the killings in Darfur, the challenge was how to present it, along with distressing images of the genocides of the 1990s in a way that documented the reality without crossing the line of what was watchable to viewers at home. We sifted through hours of UN footage to chillingly show how the world’s words failed to result in meaningful action. The archival footage, most of it in SD, also had to work with the original footage which was all shot on HD.

Title of Production/Series cited:

DEEP WRECK MYSTERIES

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

RED CROSS OUTRAGE

Company name:

Mallison Sadler Productions

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

FEBRUARY 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

ITV WEST

Programme Duration (Mins):

51'22"

Series number episodes:

3

Producer:

CRISPIN

Producer (last name):

SADLER

Director:

WAYNE

Director (last name):

ABBOTT

Footage Archive Researcher:

JOHN

Footage Archive Researcher(1) (last name):

CHAMBERS

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

LAURA

Footage Archive Researcher(2) (last name):

ABBOTT

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

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM

2

US NATIONAL ARCHIVES

3

CHRONOSMEDIA

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Attacks on ships clearly marked with the Red Cross are war crimes. The sinking of such vessels in the First World War renewed hatred of the enemy. The discovery of two torpedoed hospital ships in the Bristol Channel is dredging up more than tragic memories. Divers scouring the remains are unearthing uncomfortable new evidence which casts a different light on enemy atrocities. The Germans might not have been the only ones breaking the rules.

Reason for submission in English

Good use of archive, some of which has never been seen before

Title of Production/Series cited:

DIANA: THE WITNESSES IN THE TUNNEL

Company name:

ITN Factual

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

06/06/07

Where published (Channel/Website):

Channel 4

Programme Duration (Mins):

48 mins

Producer:

Janice

Producer (last name):

Sutherland

Director:

Janice

Director (last name):

Sutherland

Footage Archive Researcher:

Katherine

Footage Archive Researcher(1) (last name):

Bancroft

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

ITN Source

2

Daily Mirror/Mirror Pix

3

BBC

4

APTN

5

Pierre Su

Brief Synopsis in English

Diana, Princess of Wales was perhaps the most photographed person in the world. Her death in a car crash in August 1997 stunned the world. The blame was put squarely on the photographers who surrounded her in death as well as in life. For ten years conspiracy theories, claims and counter-claims obscured what actually happened that night. The photographers witnessed and recorded one of the most terrible and iconic moments of the 20th century. But for ten years that night and the photographs they took has plagued their lives. This was the first time the story of the photographers arrested that night was told.

Reason for submission in English

This film uses some of the photographs that were taken by passers-by as well as professionals and help to establish what went on in the tunnel that night. Some had not been seen on television before. The programme set the national news agenda for nearly two weeks in June for its inclusion of some of these images. No other programme featuring archive content made such a splash this year. It pulled in a prime time audience of more than 4 million, the biggest audience for a specialist factual programme on Channel 4 this year.

Title of Production/Series cited:

DISASTERS

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

WHIDDY INFERNO

Company name:

Radio Telefis Eireann

Country of Origin of cited work:

Ireland

First Transmission / Publication Date:

17/7/07

Where published (Channel/Website):

RTE 1

Programme Duration (Mins):

25.15

Series number episodes:

8

Producer:

Janet Gallagher

Director:

Janet Gallagher

Footage Archive Researcher:

Janet Gallagher

Footage Archive Researcher(1) (last name):

Mary Sweeney

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

RTE footage library

2

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

On January 8th January 1979 an oil tanker, the “Betelgeuse”, exploded at Gulf Oil’s Whiddy Terminal, Bantry Bay. The explosion was of such magnitude that it was heard as far away as Kenmare. The resulting inferno killed 50 people, and created a major environmental disaster. RTÉ’s Archive Production Unit tells this big story, setting the context with news and documentary archive, then brings it down to the personal stories of some of those caught up in the events of that night.

Reason for submission in English

Archive used imaginatively within a TV format. DISASTERS is one of several formatted RTE TV documentary series' from their TV Archive Unit. Its raison d’etre is to use archive footage to tell ratings winning local Irish stories in formatted television programming.

Title of Production/Series cited:

DISPATCHES

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

MARK THOMAS ON COCA-COLA

Company name:

Vera Productions Ltd

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

19/11/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

Channel 4

Programme Duration (Mins):

48 minutes

Series number episodes:

1

Producer:

Sarah Macdonald

Director:

Sarah Macdonald

Footage Archive Researcher:

Val Evans

Footage Archive Researcher(1) (last name):

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

2

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Coca Cola is one of the most iconic brands of both the 20th and 21st centuries. Promoting itself as the drink of freedom, choice and US patriotism, the company’s feel-good factor is recognised worldwide and reflected in its enormous profits. But behind this carefully crafted image exists a company accused of environmental damage, human rights violations and questionable business practices. Political activist and journalist Mark Thomas travels to South America, India and the US to investigate the way in which Coca Cola operates and the extent to which it upholds its moral and ethical obligations. Thomas, a long-term critic of Coca Cola’s more controversial practices, finds disturbing evidence which undermines its effervescent image as a force for good and examines the global consumer backlash which is having a very real impact on the company’s reputation and value.

Reason for submission in English

Use of historic archive and recommended submission by FOCAL.

Title of Production/Series cited:

DYNASTIES Series 5

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

Episode 7: LEAHY FAMILY

Company name:

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Country of Origin of cited work:

Australia

First Transmission / Publication Date:

2007/10/04

Where published (Channel/Website):

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Programme Duration (Mins):

55'22"

Series number episodes:

?

Producer:

Geraldine McKenna

Director:

Critchley Laurie

Footage Archive Researcher:

Wendy Borchers

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Laila Ellmoos

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

ABC TV Archives

2

National Film & Sound Archive

3

Film Australia

4

Film World

5

National Library of Australia

Brief Synopsis in English

In the 1930's, nineteen year-old Dan Leahy and his brother became the first white men to walk into the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Their arrival in search of gold brought cataclysmic change. Before long, the Leahy's gold mine had become the centre of a new outpost in the Australian colony. But unlike other colonists, Dan Leahy openly embraced local custom. Oblivious to scandal, he raised a family of ten children from three village wives. Today, thirty years after Australia gave Papua New Guinea its independence, his descendants still call the Highlands their home. This is the story of a unique colonial legacy and a family which must still bridge the divide between two very different worlds.

Reason for submission in English

The footage sourced for this documentary is extremely rare. It perpetuates the rigors of colonial life in Papua New Guinea, its pitfalls and high adventure. The majority of the film used by the producers had never been segmented in a contemporary documentary, which has resulted in a reinvigoration of interest in this particular era of Australian colonial history, especially from an anthropological viewpoint. Although some of the film had deteriorated in vaults over the decades since it had been shot, Preservation work was carried out on the telecine facility here in ABC Archives & Libraries, during which the technical operator performed all necessary improvements and corrections, prior to it being dubbed to digital tape.

Title of Production/Series cited:

EDWARDIANS IN COLOUR: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ALBERT KAHN

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

Episode 2: Men of the World

Company name:

BBC Arts

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

26/04/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC FOUR

Programme Duration (Mins):

59'

Series number episodes:

5

Producer:

Susannah Ward

Director:

Susannah Ward

Footage Archive Researcher:

Maggi Cook

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

Albert Kahn Museum, Paris

2

BBC Archives

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

The second part of the series which chronicles the banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn's attempts to document the world in film and photographs at the beginning of the 20th Century, ‘Men of the World’ tells the story of two of the most ambitious of all the early journeys undertaken by Kahn’s project - the circumnavigation of the globe by Kahn and his photographer-cum-chauffeur Alfred Dutertre in 1908-9 (in which they visited The United States, Japan, and China) and an epic 1913 trip by one of Kahn’s most intrepid cinematographers, Stéphane Passet, who journeyed to China, Mongolia and India.

Reason for submission in English

We believe that this film used rarely-seen pre-documentary footage from the Albert Kahn Museum in Paris to great effect, giving today's viewers a vivid insight into life all over the world almost 100 years ago.

Title of Production/Series cited:

FINLAND ZERO POINTS

Company name:

YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Company

Country of Origin of cited work:

Finland

First Transmission / Publication Date:

6.5.2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

YLE TV 1

Programme Duration (Mins):

56

Producer:

Pentti Väliahdet

Director:

Tom Östling

Footage Archive Researcher:

Tuula Valo

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

YLE Television Archive

2

EBU Eurovision Song Contest

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

"Finland Zero Points" is a humorous story mixing entertainment and history. Finns have always placed a lot of hope in the Eurovision entries since 1961. Their lack of success therefore has traumatized two generations, either they like or hate the show. Until 2006 victory by the hilarious monster heavy group, Lordi.

Reason for submission in English

Archive used in the documentary link together the songs, artists and post-war history.

Title of Production/Series cited:

FRONGOCH - BIRTHPLACE OF THE IRA

Company name:

Cwmni Da

Country of Origin of cited work:

Wales & Ireland

First Transmission / Publication Date:

18.12.07

Where published (Channel/Website):

s4c

Programme Duration (Mins):

52 mins

Producer:

Ifor ap Glyn

Director:

Rosie nic Cionnaith

Footage Archive Researcher:

Llyr ab Alwyn

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Paul Griffiths

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

Imperial War Museum

2

ITN/Pathe

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

The 1916 Rising in Dublin was a glorious failure; this drama documentary argues that lessons learned in Frongoch prison camp in Wales led to the creation of a new Irish state five years later. This is where most of the rebels were interned, including Michael Collins, one of the architects of Irish independence. This crucial yet neglected episode in Irish history is told in their own words, as recorded in their letters of the time. Through them we see the prisoners’ struggles with the camp authorities over prisoner of war status, and their propaganda campaign to shame the British government.

Reason for submission in English

This documentary makes effective use of period footage to convey the aftermath of the Easter Rising and life in a First World War POW camp

Title of Production/Series cited:

HAIRSTYLE CONFIDENTIAL

Company name:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Country of Origin of cited work:

Canada

First Transmission / Publication Date:

January 18, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

Canada

Programme Duration (Mins):

45’

Producer:

Lisa Ellenwood

Director:

Leora Eisen

Footage Archive Researcher:

Darren Yearsley

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

2

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Title of Production/Series cited:

HITLER AND MUSSOLINI

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

A Brutal Friendship

Company name:

LOOKS Filmproduktionen GmbH

Country of Origin of cited work:

Germany , Italy

First Transmission / Publication Date:

October 18th 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

ARTE

Programme Duration (Mins):

90'

Series number episodes:

2 x 52'

Producer:

Gunnar Dedio

Director:

Ullrich Kasten

Footage Archive Researcher:

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

Istituto Luce

2

Bundesfilmarchiv

3

National Archives

4

Footage Farm

5

Brief Synopsis in English

They both had leading roles on the stage of world history – the “Führer” and the “Duce”. Two men who rose on desire to restore their respective countries to ancient glory instead drag them into the abyss alongside themselves. “Hitler and Mussolini” is a historical epic with numerous archive materials mixed with original settings, places of triumph and defeat, with landscapes that have become part of history, told in opulent images and impressions.

Reason for submission in English

The film is a masterpiece of a mixture of old and new images. Archives material transferred on HD and combined with HD shot images of the places where Hitler and Mussolini met.

Title of Production/Series cited:

HITLER'S FAVOURITE ROYAL

Company name:

Monkey

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

06/12/07

Where published (Channel/Website):

Channel 4

Programme Duration (Mins):

48

Producer:

Fiona Cotter Craig

Director:

Fiona Cotter Craig

Footage Archive Researcher:

Ann Williams

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

David Caldwell Evans

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

ITN

2

Footage Farm

3

Movietone

4

Imperial War Museum

5

Deutsche Wochenstau

Brief Synopsis in English

The hitherto untold story of Prince Charles Edward, Queen Victoria's youngest grandson born and brought up in the UK who was sent to Germany in 1900 to take up the vacant Duchy of Coburg and whose life was ruined by this decision and his own weakness. He fought for Germany in both world wars and died in 1954 having been stripped of all his British titles, branded a traitor peer and tried and convicted as an 'Important Nazi'. While his life unraveled in a way no-one could have foreseen his sister, Princess Alice led an exemplary British Royal life and was the living embodiment of the life he could have led

Reason for submission in English

We had to tell a story with an almost 'invisible' main character. We denied access to the family archive and thus had to trawl archives and sources here, in the US, Germany, France and Italy as well as contacting private collections for permission to use their stills. After effecting the stills to make more of them and create layers brought out a depth of emotion that would otherwise have been missed. Moving contemporary footage in the UK and Germany was a place specific rather than generic and this added great authenticity to the storytelling.

Title of Production/Series cited:

HOW TO BE EX PRIME MINISTER

Company name:

BBC

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

24 June 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC Four

Programme Duration (Mins):

59'00'

Producer:

Jermey Monblat

Director:

Footage Archive Researcher:

Carol Davies Foster

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Eamonn Walsh

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

BBC

2

Movietone

3

ITN

4

APTN

5

Footage Farm

Brief Synopsis in English

As Tony Blair finally steps down, award winning reporter Michael Cockerell tells the bitter-sweet story of how Prime Ministers cope with life after Number Ten. This how-to-do it guide draws the lessons from Winston Churchill to today. The film reveals the perils and pitfalls of your new role: how to make money and keep your dignity; and how to cope with losing the most addictive political drug of all - power.

Reason for submission in English

Through rare archive - together with home movies and untransmitted material - the film tells the tragic-comic story of life after Number Ten. The archive shows Churchill sunning himself like an ancient tortoise in the South of France, Harold Wilson’s sub-prime attempts at hosting a chat show and Lady Thatcher dazed and confused by an ordinary shopping trip to Sainsbury’s. It took extensive research to locate the material, as ex-Premiers tend to fade from the camera’s view. One highlight unearthed was a remarkable gathering of five former premiers –from Ted Heath to Tony Blair which began and ended the film.

Title of Production/Series cited:

HUNTING DOWN THE NAZIS

Company name:

CC ET C Clarke Costelle et Cie

Country of Origin of cited work:

FRANCE

First Transmission / Publication Date:

January, 15th 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

France 2 (French Public Channel)

Programme Duration (Mins):

86'30"

Producer:

Louis VAUDEVILLE

Director:

Isabelle CLARKE

Footage Archive Researcher:

Deborah FORD

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

William MURPHY

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

Fonds privé Serge et Beate Klarsfeld

2

INA

3

BBC

4

NARA

5

Gaumont / Pathé Archives

Brief Synopsis in English

The unrelenting pursuit of Eichman, Mengele and other Nazi criminals in Europe, the Middle East and South America. For the first time, a film recounts the story of the long pursuit of Nazis in hiding from 1945 to the present day. Sixty years of investigations, set-backs trials and dramas, brought about principally by three extraordinary individuals - the Austrian, Simon Wiesenthal, and the German/French couple, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld.

Reason for submission in English

This program of 86 minutes, composed entirely of archives (films and photographs), established a record television audience in prime time on France 2 (5.2 million viewers) and has already been purchased for re-broadcast in twelve countries. It is composed of 878 extracts obtained from 37 sources in 15 countries. Ten international researchers worked on this film, which was extracted from 200 hours of audiovisual archives from 1939 to 2006.

Title of Production/Series cited:

I,VIDEOGAME (AKA RISE OF THE VIDEOGAME)

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

Level One (episode 101)

Company name:

World of Wonder Productions

Country of Origin of cited work:

United States

First Transmission / Publication Date:

November 21, 2007 (some international territories broadcasted in March 2007)

Where published (Channel/Website):

Discovery Channel

Programme Duration (Mins):

60 minutes

Series number episodes:

5

Producer:

Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato

Director:

Jim Eckels

Footage Archive Researcher:

Kate Coe

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Ashley York

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

Getty Images

2

ITN

3

BBC Motion Gallery

4

UCLA Film and TV Archive

5

Library of Moving Images

Brief Synopsis in English

The video game revolution has been under way for decades, progressing from simple amusements created in the 1950s to an all-pervasive force in today's popular culture that rivals — and will perhaps soon surpass — film and television. What began as a subculture pastime has evolved and transcended genres to become a unique form of expression impacting everything from modern warfare to interpersonal relationships. Rise of the Video Game is a comprehensive and progressive exploration of the past, present and future of video games and video gamers. From the early days of Pong to today's ever-popular Halo 2, and from Atari 2600 to Nintendo to PlayStation, Rise of the Video Game tells the story of the people, the ideologies and the technology behind video games and how they have exploded into a cultural phenomenon.

Reason for submission in English

The evolution of gaming has seen the pendulum move from the days of games replicating society, to society replicating games. Featuring interviews with giants in the gaming industry of yesterday and today, this five-part series examines the evolution of the video game and its cultural impact on the world of entertainment today. The documentary series showcases a range of archival material, from news footage to gaming footage that has been archived by collectors all over the world. We believe it is a world-class example of using archival material to present a unique history.

Title of Production/Series cited:

IN LOVE WITH ADOLF HITLER

Company name:

CC ET C Clarke Costelle et Cie

Country of Origin of cited work:

FRANCE

First Transmission / Publication Date:

June, 12th 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

TF1

Programme Duration (Mins):

71'04"

Producer:

Louis VAUDEVILLE

Director:

Isabelle CLARKE

Footage Archive Researcher:

Morgane BARRIER

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

William MURPHY

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

NARA

2

La Camera Stylo

3

Agentur Karl Höffkes

4

F.W. Murnau-Stiftung

5

Transit Film GmbH

Brief Synopsis in English

It was a strange affair, full of love, lust and despair... That of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, his mistress from 1932 to their double suicide in Hitler’s Berlin bunker, that fateful day in April 1945. For the first time, this extraordinary film shows Hitler in his private life, as seen through the eyes of Eva Braun, who - with her own 16mm camera - recorded a kind of “making-of” (in color!) about Hitler and his regime. A unique look at the private life and public crimes of the German dictator.

Reason for submission in English

This 70-minute program, also composed entirely of archives (films and photographs), was broadcast in TF1’s evening second time slot (2.4 million viewers) and has already been purchased for re-broadcast in ten countries. Our team of directors and historians took about one year to analyze, decipher, and extract film clips from four hours of footage taken by Eva Braun. Thanks to tight editing, careful restoration, and research in supplementary archives, the production achieved a film which simultaneously communicates with the general public as well history enthusiasts.

Title of Production/Series cited:

IRIS CHANG, THE RAPE OF NANKING

Company name:

Real to Reel Productions Inc.

Country of Origin of cited work:

Canada

First Transmission / Publication Date:

December 13, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

History Television

Programme Duration (Mins):

105

Producer:

Anne Pick

Director:

Spahic Bill

Footage Archive Researcher:

Elizabeth Klinck

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

David McGee

2

Lou Reda

3

Nara

4

CBC

5

Fairchild

Brief Synopsis in English

Iris Chang: The Rape Of Nanking is a feature documentary in HD about a young Chinese-American author’s journey into the darkest reaches of humanity as she researched and wrote her best selling book ‘The Rape of Nanking’. Iris Chang’s harrowing experience and dogged determination uncovers in graphic detail the forgotten holocaust of World War II when almost 300,000 Chinese women, children and soldiers were in a matter of weeks systematically raped, tortured and murdered by the invading Japanese forces.

Reason for submission in English

The Film Iris Chang, The Rape Of Nanking is a historical documentary feature that required an extensive amount of research and stock footage. Elizabeth Klinck went above and beyond to find us a vast amount of footage. We couldn't have don't it without her!

Title of Production/Series cited:

JAMES MAY'S 20TH CENTURY

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

HONEY I SHRUNK THE WORLD

Company name:

BBC

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

10/07/07

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC Two

Programme Duration (Mins):

28 minutes 58 seconds

Series number episodes:

6

Producer:

Simon Baker

Director:

Simon Baker

Footage Archive Researcher:

Rebecca Hickie

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Carol Foster Davies

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

BBC

2

Beaulieu

3

ITN Pathe

4

IWM

5

British Airways

Brief Synopsis in English

In this new series James May gets to grips with the innovations that changed our lives in the Twentieth Century. He begins by discovering how, thanks to planes, cars, televisions and computers our world suddenly got a whole lot smaller. He takes a flight in the pioneering airplane that created the European mini-break and looks at the classic family car - the Ford Cortina - that opened up a new world when he was a young lad. And he takes a Model T Ford for a test drive - it is so impossible he wonders how motoring ever caught on.

Reason for submission in English

This popular successful science strand with James May set out to use archive in a highly original way to bring the scientific inventions of the 20th century to a contemporary audience. The key features of the series was an extensive hunt to come up with archive which fitted with James May’s spirit of enquiry while achieving a refreshing and modern use of archive in the edit.

Title of Production/Series cited:

LAST PARTY AT THE PALACE

Company name:

Spun Gold TV Ltd

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

13 December 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

Channel 4

Programme Duration (Mins):

50 mins

Producer:

Simon Chu

Director:

Simon Chu

Footage Archive Researcher:

Alison McAllan

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

ITN Source

2

BBC Motion Gallery

3

British Movietonews

4

Granada International

5

South West Film & TV Archive

Brief Synopsis in English

In 1958, one of Britain’s long standing aristocratic ceremonies came to an end. The last debutantes were formally presented to the Queen before being launched on the “Season”. This documentary tells the story of a group of women profoundly shaped by it. Through their eyes, we’re introduced to a world of class eccentricity in its dying days. We see how the lives of the last debutantes developed during the ensuing years of profound social change. Some would question the value system for which they’d been groomed, some would dramatically reject it whilst others found their lives heading in fascinating directions.

Reason for submission in English

The central event of the film - the last presentation of debutantes to the Queen in 1958 - was neither filmed nor photographed in accordance with court protocol. In its absence, the film cleverly uses archive of debutantes from different eras and the one presentation ceremony that was filmed with George V1 after the war, to illustrate the mystical symbolism of the debutante tradition. Veracity is provided by judicious use of the limited archive of that last Season and use of intimate stills from the archive of society photographer - Barry Swaebe - so that the missing footage doesn't ever diminish the evocation of the era.

Title of Production/Series cited:

Company name:

Shine Limited

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

25/12/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

ITV1

Programme Duration (Mins):

60 mins

Producer:

Emma Jones

Director:

Emma Jones

Footage Archive Researcher:

Libby Gregory

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

ITN Source

2

BBC Motion Gallery

3

Movietone

4

Huntley Film Archives

5

Granada International

Brief Synopsis in English

Historical documentary looking back at 50 Years of the Queen's Christmas messages

Reason for submission in English

Unprecedented access and use of footage from the royal archive

Title of Production/Series cited:

LOCKOUT

Company name:

Lockout Productions Pty Ltd

Country of Origin of cited work:

Australia

First Transmission / Publication Date:

Aug 23, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

History Channel (Aust/New Zealand)

Programme Duration (Mins):

57

Producer:

Greg Hall

Producer (last name):

Diane Michael

Director:

Jason van Genderen

Footage Archive Researcher:

Laila Elmoos

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Stephanie Katz

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

Aust Broadcasting Corp, Australia

2

Film Australia, Sydney

3

Jim Comerford Collection, CFMEU, Sydney

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

In 1929, in the face of collapsing demand for coal, mine owners in the Northern Coalfields of NSW, announced that they would reduce miners’ wages and strip them of their hard won industrial rights. When their union, refused to agree to these terms the mine owners locked the gates. They were to remain closed for 15 months. 10,000 miners, pit boys and their families now found themselves without a job, forced to subsist on government handouts and charity. What began as an undeclared war on industrial labour ended up overpowering a government, crippling an industry and besieging a community.

Reason for submission in English

Research on Lockout, revealed that an ABC TV (Aust) documentary team (prod Bill Stellar), interviewed six Lockout veterans in 1985. Submitted as a pilot programme, it was never broadcast. Shot on 16mm (4:3 aspect), the rare footage, minus production notes, was re-discovered by ABC librarian Laila Elmoos following our inquiries. It proved integral to our documentary. Our director and his team used innovative techniques to seamless integrate these rare interviews, plus footage from Film Australia’s Story of a City 1947) and the Waterside Workers Film Unit’s, Hewers of Coal (1957), into Lockout.

Title of Production/Series cited:

MAHATMA - THE GREAT SOUL

Company name:

Prasar Bharati, Doordarshan, Broadcasting Corporation of India

Country of Origin of cited work:

India

First Transmission / Publication Date:

02/10/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

National Channel ( DD-1)

Programme Duration (Mins):

52 minutes

Producer:

Mr. Gauri Shankar Raina

Producer (last name):

Director:

Mr. Gauri Shankar Raina

Footage Archive Researcher:

Mr. Gauri Shankar Raina

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

Gandhi Foundation, Mumbai

2

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

The film strives to encapsulate the amazing life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a man of peace whose life bears testimony that while violent victories can only be transitory, non-violence as an invisible force works its miracles silently registering conquests that are enduring. Carefully assembled images and words not only trace out the story of Gandhi’s life from obscure beginnings to entry into a pantheon of leaders of mankind-statesman, seers and prophetic pioneers who belong to the common heritage of mankind and are eternal. The narrative focuses on the making of the Mahatma – a great soul. Individuals and ideas that shaped his mind at home and during the years of study in England and stay in South Africa are reviewed evocatively. The running thread throughout in Gandhi’s thoughts, speech and action is non-violence

Reason for submission in English

Documentary based on Archival footage

Title of Production/Series cited:

MICAS AND SALAZAR

Company name:

SIC

Country of Origin of cited work:

Portugal

First Transmission / Publication Date:

02.12.07

Where published (Channel/Website):

SIC TV

Programme Duration (Mins):

40'

Producer:

Isabel Mendonça

Director:

Cristina Boavida

Footage Archive Researcher:

Cristina Boavida

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Isabel Mendonça

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

RTP (Portuguese Public TV)

2

Cinemateca (Portuguese cinema library)

3

SIC

4

Esfera dos Livros (publisher)

5

photos from particulares

Brief Synopsis in English

"Micas and Salazar" is a documentary about António de Oliveira Salazar, the dictator who ruled Portugal for almost 50 years. Based on the memories of his goddaughter, this work reveals the man's secluded side. Maria da Conceição, was 6 years old when she went to live at Salazar's house. During more than three decades, the man who was President of the Council to everyone else was like a father to her, who tucked her in bed every night. Only half a life later and already at the age of 77 does Micas, as she used to be called by the “Doctor”, summon the courage to put on paper the memories of a life spent with one of the most striking personalities of the Portuguese 20th century. A harsh man, to many a dictator, who will always remain to Micas as a caring and paternal Salazar.

Reason for submission in English

The documentary “Micas and Salazar” unveils a little known side of Salazar, a more private and secret one. The Portuguese dictator, who ruled the country for more than 30 years, left an aura of tyranny and repression that no longer faded away. We deeply believe that this work accomplished the duty of journalism of showing another side of the story. To tell it, a deep research of archive footage on Salazar and Portugal during that period, had to be carried out. In spite of documentaries not being a usual product on Portuguese prime time, this documentary was broadcasted at 9 p.m. and obtained an 11.9% rating and a 28% share.

Title of Production/Series cited:

NATION ON FILM

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

BIRTH OF LOCAL RADIO

Company name:

BBC TV English Regions

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

8/11/07

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC4

Programme Duration (Mins):

30 mins

Producer:

Richard Taylor

Director:

Lucy Smickersgill

Footage Archive Researcher:

Lucy Smickersgill

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

BBC TV Archive

2

ITN Source

3

Northern Region Film and Television Archive

4

Screen Archive South East

5

Brief Synopsis in English

This programme uses film archive and interviews to tell the story of the difficult birth of BBC Local Radio in 1967. Film was used as a means of persuading politicians - and the BBC - to back the project, and the new stations were filmed by the BBC as well as film-makers from independent television. It was a new kind of broadcasting in the UK, and its launch was full of chaos as well as excitement.

Reason for submission in English

Surprisingly, for a programme about radio, there is a wealth of archive displaying different viewpoints - film-makers in the traditional BBC were suspicious, amateur film-makers were enthusiastic, and commercial film-makers were interested in local radio as a business opportunity.

Title of Production/Series cited:

OCHBERG'S ORPHANS

Company name:

Rainmaker Films

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

x

Where published (Channel/Website):

x

Programme Duration (Mins):

40’

Producer:

Georgina Townsley

Director:

Jon Blair

Footage Archive Researcher:

Adrian Wood

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Polly Pettit

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

Herman Axelbank Collection, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford CA

2

Belarusian State Archive for Film, Photo & Sound Documents, Minsk

3

Footage Farm, London

4

South African National Film & Sound Archive, Pretoria

5

Ukrainian State Archive for Film & Photo Documents, Kiev

Brief Synopsis in English

1921. In Russia a million children are without parents after six years of war, famine and disease. 300,000 of them have been orphaned by murderous anti Semitic attacks, their lives hanging by a thread. In South Africa, businessman Isaac Ochberg dreams a dream of saving some of these helpless and lost souls. Filmed in the original locations, together with unique archive footage and testimony from survivors, “Ochberg’s Orphans” reveals this unknown story of heroism. Today, in a century dominated by wars, genocides and displaced peoples, Ochberg’s legacy is a reminder that a small act can make a big difference.

Reason for submission in English

This production found previously unseen footage of early Russia. Showing exceptional archive research work and innovative approaches to editing and presentation of archive material.

Title of Production/Series cited:

PAISLEY - FROM PROTEST TO POWER

Company name:

UTV

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

8th May 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

UTV

Programme Duration (Mins):

49 mins.

Producer:

Jim Dougal

Director:

James Dougal

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

UTV Archive

2

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Profiling the man who went from barricades to the dispatch box and examining how Ian Paisley rose from fundamentalist preacher to undisputed leader of unionism and First Minister in Northern Ireland.

Reason for submission in English

The programme was transmitted on the day that Dr Paisley and Martin McGuinness historically began to share power. Due to the inclusion of material from that day, the final programme edit was completed just minutes before broadcast.

Title of Production/Series cited:

PANORAMA

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

SCIENTOLOGY & ME

Company name:

BBC

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

14th May 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC One

Programme Duration (Mins):

29'

Producer:

Sarah Mole

Director:

Footage Archive Researcher:

Kate Redman

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

BBC Panorama 1987

2

Granada

3

ABC News

4

CNN

5

Brief Synopsis in English

The Church of Scientology is big in star-struck LA and it's getting bigger here in the UK, too. But it still can’t shake off accusations that it’s less of a religion and more of a cult. Panorama sent reporter John Sweeney to investigate. He was shouted at, spied on, visited in his hotel at midnight, chased around LA by sinister strangers and had one interview interrupted when a top Scientologist arrived to denounce the interviewee on camera. And after a week of filming, Sweeney loses his cool in a vigorous exchange with one of the Church minders.

Reason for submission in English

The aim of the film was to test the Church’s claim that they’ve become a mainstream religion. Critics say that Scientology harasses opponents mercilessly by spying on them, intimidating them and using a mind control technique called 'bull-baiting' to put adversaries at a psychological disadvantage. Reporter John Sweeney’s mission was to investigate whether Scientology had cleaned up its act and left these tactics behind. But he quickly became the subject of their intense investigation. This is the first film to show exactly how the Church attacks its perceived enemies – in this case, John Sweeney himself.

Title of Production/Series cited:

PARIS HILTON, INC.

Company name:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Country of Origin of cited work:

Canada

First Transmission / Publication Date:

November 29, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

CBC Television

Programme Duration (Mins):

45’

Producer:

John Turner

Director:

Cindy Banks

Footage Archive Researcher:

Ron Krant

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Michelle Demeyere

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

CNN

2

Celebrity Footage

3

YouTube

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Today, celebrity culture dominates our daily media and social dialogue. Celebrity is a 24-hour business, fed by nightly entertainment news programs, cable channels devoted to celebrity, the bustling newsstand business of magazines and the millions of web sites that keep vigil, ever-hopeful of sellable scandal. To truly get at this world the documentary begins and ends with Paris…Hilton that is. Famous for doing nothing, she is the ultimate manifestation of our obsession with celebrity culture and the massive profits that it wields. As long as we are willing to watch and read, who can resist feeding our habit?

Reason for submission in English

The challenge with the Paris Hilton material was primarily the sheer volume of footage and photographs to work with – over 60,000 images from one photographer alone. Because the major networks didn’t have a lot of footage, a lot of the stocks came from non-traditional sources such as private collectors, crazed fans, new media and celebrity paparazzi. With limited interview access to one of the most photographed women in the world, the documentary successfully presents the stock footage in a way that is fresh, thought-provoking and entertaining.

Title of Production/Series cited:

POPE JOHN PAUL: A SAINT FOR OUR TIMES

Company name:

Dreamtime Entertainment

Country of Origin of cited work:

USA

First Transmission / Publication Date:

12/2/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

PBS TV

Programme Duration (Mins):

57 Min

Producer:

David Beaty

Director:

John Biffar

Footage Archive Researcher:

Alida Vallini

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Whitney Sickels

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

Vatican Archive

2

ITN Archives

3

National Archives

4

ABC News Source

5

Brief Synopsis in English

JOHN PAUL II: A SAINT FOR OUR TIMES, examines the life of Pope John Paul II in the context of the process of his beatification which is taking place in the Vatican at this time. This process is expected to be finalized this year resulting in the beatification of John Paul II-- the first step to full canonization. The documentary is set in three parts which examine the life of the deceased pontiff beginning with his "baptism by fire" in war torn Poland during World War II and continuing with his struggle for religious freedom in Communist Poland during the second half of the 20th Century. The second part, looks at the effect John Paul the Second had on the fall of Communism in Poland after his accession to the Papacy and the influence he had in causing totalitarian regimes of right and left ideologies to fall around the world as he traveled the world, spreading his message in support of human dignity, religious freedom and human rights.

Reason for submission in English

We would like to highlight the use of archival material used in this documentary and how it enhanced and supported the story.

Title of Production/Series cited:

RAMPANT: HOW A CITY STOPPED A PLAGUE

Company name:

Chapman Pictures Pty Ltd

Country of Origin of cited work:

Australia

First Transmission / Publication Date:

3 December 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

ABC Australia

Programme Duration (Mins):

57minutes

Producer:

Penny Chapman

Director:

Victoria Pitt

Footage Archive Researcher:

Carolyn Saul

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

ABC Library Sales

2

Nine Network Archives

3

ITN Source

4

Independent Filmmakers/National Film and Sound Archive

5

Network 10

Brief Synopsis in English

On the 25th anniversary of the first diagnosis of AIDS in Australia comes the little known story of how Sydney’s poofters, junkies and whores stopped the virus in its tracks. Along with politicians, doctors and nuns, they pulled off a high risk strategy that broke the law, offended everyone and saved tens of thousands of lives. Sydney was one of the first places in the world to stop the virus, and the WHO still talks about the Australian Model for preventing AIDS. This is their story, told by them: how luck, guts and sheer bloody pragmatism might yet save the world from AIDS.

Reason for submission in English

RAMPANT: HOW A CITY STOPPED A PLAGUE The power of this documentary really rested on bringing an earlier era to life. We could only convey just how huge an achievement our unlikely coalition of "poofters, junkies, whores", politicians, doctors and nuns had pulled off in stopping the spread of the virus if we could take the viewers back inside the mindset of the times – a different era, when gays had only just come out of the closet, when sex workers and drug users were seen with viewed with undisguised contempt, when nothing was known about AIDS, and there was such terrible panic around it. After 25 years of living with AIDS it is hard to recall the real fear and loathing that marked its early years, when so little was known about how it spread and, (while treatments were so primitive) its effects were so merciless. There's nothing quite like the real thing in terms of seeing the hysteria and agony of the time. Archive Researcher, Carolyn Saul was relentless in her search for images that conveyed not just the literal meaning of those ideas, but carried the details and touch that bring the era truly to life.

Title of Production/Series cited:

RETURN OF THE RING

Company name:

UTV

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

14th December 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

UTV

Programme Duration (Mins):

48 mins.

Producer:

Alison & Paul

Producer (last name):

Fleming & Clarke

Director:

Paul Clarke

Footage Archive Researcher:

Declan Doherty

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

COI

2

UTV Archive

3

BBC Motion Gallery

4

USA Archive

5

personal archive

Brief Synopsis in English

Meticulously researched and compiled, the Producers of ‘Returning The Ring’ unearthed stunning film, documentary, pictorial, and audio archive that brings clarity to the production and generates a powerful and creative dynamic that informs and engages viewers. During WW2 a USAF B-17 bomber crashed into a mountain overlooking Belfast, killing all ten crewmembers. Incredibly, fifty years later at the remote crash-site, a man stumbled across a wedding ring belonging to one of the crew. He dedicated nearly three years (pre-internet) to finding the family of the crewman and returning the ring.

Reason for submission in English

The Producers introduce eyewitness interviews and uncovered archive footage that has no record of having been previously broadcast.

Title of Production/Series cited:

ROYAL CHILDREN

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

William Wales

Company name:

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

Country of Origin of cited work:

Germany

First Transmission / Publication Date:

28.August 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

ZDF

Programme Duration (Mins):

43'30

Series number episodes:

?

Producer:

Ulrike Grunewald

Director:

Volker Schmidt-Sondermann

Footage Archive Researcher:

Mo Davies

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

ITN Source

2

AP Archive

3

BBC Archive

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Portrait of Prince William, one of the worlds most eligible bachelors. How can he deal with all the burdens that lay on him? His future role as King, his destiny as son of Princess Diana, as a person, who has his own will and his own plans in life...is he prepared to give it all up for duty and protocol? The future of the Monarchy lies with William - a handsome, intelligent and caring young man, who is constantly watched by a curious media and public.

Reason for submission in English

A thoughtful and glamorous portrait of a young man with a special destiny - his character reflected in the use of the archive material: from formal events to private moments, all scenes picked from the various British archives brings us an inside view on a worldwide known celebrity. Submitted DVDs contain natural sound with English interviews - an English dubbed version is available in case of nomination.

Title of Production/Series cited:

SHORN IN 1944 (TONDUES EN 44)

Company name:

Les Productions du Lagon

Country of Origin of cited work:

France

First Transmission / Publication Date:

April 19th, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

France 3 / France 3 Region

Programme Duration (Mins):

52 minutes

Producer:

Valérie Dupin

Director:

Jean-Pierre Carlon

Footage Archive Researcher:

Valérie Dupin

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

The US National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA)

2

Archives de guerre

3

Footage Farm

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Although “shorn women” are a significant image of the Liberation, few studies have analysed this issue. This practice was common and widespread on French territory in 1944-1945. The description of “public shavings” reflects how unclear the lines were during this period between public and private life. Symbolically the act of shaving represented the ”sin” - collaboration,  the “punishment” - purification, and finally a ”vision of the future”  - the reconstruction. The director tried to understand why these episodes occurred, and how they represent in a way the reappropriation of ‘tondue’’s bodies specifically, and of women's bodies, in  general.

Reason for submission in English

We heard about the Focal International Awards 2008 by the European Documentary Network (EDN). Jean- Pierre Carlon's last documentary, "Shorn in 1944", was just completed and we thought it was a great idea to make it participate in this event. We think that if this film is local, the subject of it is international, because women are always the first victims during wars and conflicts.

Title of Production/Series cited:

SIAR SNA 60'DAÍ

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

7 - 1966

Company name:

Gaelmedia

Country of Origin of cited work:

Ireland

First Transmission / Publication Date:

21/2/07

Where published (Channel/Website):

TG4

Programme Duration (Mins):

25:00

Series number episodes:

10

Producer:

Director:

Footage Archive Researcher:

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

TG4 Library

2

RTE Library

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

1966: Nelson’s Pillar is blown up in Dublin; Dickie Rock’s wedding; free education is announced and writer Frank O’Connor gives the graveside oration at WB Yeats’ funeral.

Reason for submission in English

Title of Production/Series cited:

SOL Y SOMBRA

Company name:

ALISA PRODUCTIONS

Country of Origin of cited work:

France

First Transmission / Publication Date:

15 August 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

YLE Finland

Programme Duration (Mins):

52 minutes

Producer:

Annette GOURDON

Director:

Philippe CLAUDE

Footage Archive Researcher:

Isabelle CZERWONCKA

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

Footage Farm

2

Archivo Grafico Gomez-Aguayo

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Newly married in a hungry Andalusia, Diego and Maria were celebrating the birth of their daughter when the Coup of the 18th July, 1936, came about, throwing Spain into chaos. This new order that the general Franco tried to impose brought about a long separation; Diego had joined the Republicans; when the Fascists won, he had to flee to France, leaving his wife and daughter. In the meantime, the conflict was spreading to every part of Europe. Interestingly, events from their lives fit in with history; it is also the story of a couple of 20-year olds in 1935.

Reason for submission in English

We feel that this film is typical for a film with archive material. With its classical style it also shows many current possibilities to use different kinds of archive.

Title of Production/Series cited:

TAMMUZ

Company name:

G.N Communication

Country of Origin of cited work:

Israel

First Transmission / Publication Date:

22/3/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

IBA Channel 1

Programme Duration (Mins):

92`

Producer:

Nir Toib

Director:

Nir Toib

Footage Archive Researcher:

Nir Toib

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

IDF Archive

2

IBA Archive

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Tammuz To Blow Up The Bomb On the morning of June 7th, 1981, eight Israeli pilots set out on a suicide mission targeted at the Iraqi nuclear reactor named Tammuz. Their objective was to suppress the nuclear threat posed by Iraq on Israel’s very existence. In terms of distance and target, it was the most complex mission ever undertaking by the Israeli Air Force and the route passed over enemy territory such as the states of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Later, it was said that while sailing on the Red Sea, Hussein King of Jordan saw the airplanes flying over his yacht, but made no effort to inform Saddam Hussein of the approaching attack. It took just one minute and twenty seconds to completely destroy the nuclear reactor. Seven of the eight pilots are still alive. The late Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut to fly in space was killed when the Columbia Space Shuttle disintegrated during its descent back to Earth. The remaining seven include one who was subsequently involved in the Jonathan Pollard affair and another who was one of the most famous signatories to the letter of protest against Israel’s policies in the occupied territories. The pilots describe the long, tense hours flying towards the target, the details of which they learned only a few hours before takeoff. Israel’s elite pilots were on a mission that would change the face of the Middle East, through a mission that provoked across the board protest from every corner of the globe, including from the USA, which 10 years later itself went to war against the Iraqi nuclear threat. The film also puts into perspective, today’s decision-making process at the political and military (Israeli Air forces) levels and presents possible answers to another question: Will Israel respond to the threat from Iran in the same way in which it dealt with the Iraqi threat in 1981?

Reason for submission in English

Documentary filmmaking is still burdened with public and social responsibility, and Israeli documentary filmmakers on the whole can be characterized as having a very high level of social and political sensitivity. In many cases, they are the ones that place certain subjects on the public agenda, ones that the large broadcasting organizations refrain from dealing with for fear of embarrassing, boring or angering their audience. Only once we understand that a war continues long after the last bullet is shot - it remains in people's soul, The cinematic medium could be a hilling and educational and help in bringing peace for the middle east

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE BLAIR YEARS

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

Blair at War

Company name:

Juniper

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

25/11/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC

Programme Duration (Mins):

60mins

Series number episodes:

3

Producer:

Samir Shah

Director:

Dollan Cannell

Footage Archive Researcher:

Victoria Stable

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

2

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Blair at War is the second programme in the three part BBC1 series, The Blair Years. In it Tony Blair and George W Bush, who took their nations to war in Iraq, talk as never before about the decision to topple Saddam Hussein. The programme intercuts interviews with key participants together with archive footage to reveal what was going on behind the scenes as the international coalition fell apart. Major figures like Britain’s ambassador to the UN, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, talk frankly about their actions – reported at the time in the news – and the truth of what was really going on.

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE DIANA YEARS

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

EP 2

Company name:

MAP TV

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

5 AUG 07 (series) 12 AUG 07 (EP 2)

Where published (Channel/Website):

SKY ONE

Programme Duration (Mins):

46‘

Series number episodes:

3

Producer:

MICHAEL ATTWELL

Director:

MICHAEL ATTWELL

Footage Archive Researcher:

FRANCK GUILLORY

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

ITN SOURCE

2

BBC MOTION GALLERY

3

AIRTIME TELEVISION

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

The Diana Years was a series of three 1-hour programmes commissioned to mark the tenth anniversary of her death. It was conceived entirely as an archive series, re-visiting Princess Diana’s story through library footage. The footage was accompanied by music of the relevant periods, taken from her own personal collection or associated with her. Episode Two dealt with the years from 1985 to 1992, beginning with the increasing estrangement between her and her husband, and culminating in the announcement of their separation.

Reason for submission in English

This critically-acclaimed series aimed to give renewed emphasis to the power and importance of archive footage as a central form in the telling of contemporary history on television. It required a high degree of editorial and editing skill to distil and integrate more than 25 hours of rushes. We tried – unusually these days -- to allow the footage to breathe and to be played at length. We also aimed to complement and enhance the footage with carefully chosen music, and by interviews with many of those present when the footage was originally shot.

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE ETERNAL OPTIMIST - ROBIN EAMES

Company name:

UTV

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

7th January 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

UTV

Programme Duration (Mins):

49 mins.

Producer:

Jim Dougal

Director:

James Dougal

Footage Archive Researcher:

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

UTV Archive

2

ITN Source

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

The Eternal Optimist is a portrait of the work and life of Archbishop Robin Eames who as Primate of Ireland was the longest serving Archbishop in the Anglican Communion. The programme traces the work of Dr Eames throughout the troubles in Northern Ireland as a mediator and peace maker and his contribution to the Anglican Communion world wide.

Reason for submission in English

Good use of archive footage to illustrate a biographical programme.

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE FAMILY THAT DEFIED HITLER

Company name:

MAP TV

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

23 OCTOBER 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

FIVE

Programme Duration (Mins):

47 MINS 06 SECS

Producer:

MICHAEL ATTWELL

Director:

MICHAEL ATTWELL

Footage Archive Researcher:

FRANCK GUILLORY

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

ITN SOURCE

2

USHMM

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

In 1939 there were more than 3 million Jews in Poland. Just two families are known to have survived the Holocaust intact. This is the story of one of them - a husband, his wife and their two little girls. Separated, threatened, persecuted, and facing genocide, through an astonishing sequence of events, they each survived. With courage, daring, guile, sheer bloody-mindedness – and luck, they came to be united once more as a family against all odds – only to separate again as an Iron Curtain fell across their continent.

Reason for submission in English

This programme again demonstrates the power of archive footage as a central component in the re-telling of history. We feel this programme made imaginative and creative use of the relatively small amount of original material available. Two immediate challenges were to use general footage to tell a personal story, and to weave many disparate sources together into a seamless whole. We then amplified and enriched the footage by the use of still photographs and music. And by mixing between the original footage and our own modern footage of the same locations today, we tried to add impact and poignancy.

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE FIRST MEN IN SPACE

Company name:

Laengengrad Filmproduktion GmbH

Country of Origin of cited work:

Germany

First Transmission / Publication Date:

Oct. 01, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

ARTE

Programme Duration (Mins):

52

Producer:

Thomas Weidenbach

Director:

Daniel Muenter

Footage Archive Researcher:

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

NASA

2

National Archives and Records Administration

3

New Mexico Museum of Space History

4

National Museum of the USAF

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Joseph Kittinger Jr. and his colleague David Simons were the first human beings in space. In the late 1950s they soared for hours above the atmosphere of our planet and plunged with unimaginable speed through the clouds. Years before the astronauts conquered space with the help of rockets, Kittinger and Simons took the first, potentially fatal steps. Their lives quite literally depended on a thin sheet of plastic – because that was what the huge balloons that carried them into such high altitudes were made of.

Reason for submission in English

With the help of original footage and interviews with the balloon pilots, this exciting and fact-filled film reveals the engineers’ technical achievements and shows how their findings are being used to this day

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE GREAT KILLER

Company name:

ina

Country of Origin of cited work:

France

First Transmission / Publication Date:

11th mars 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

Belgium/rtbf

Programme Duration (Mins):

52'39

Producer:

Sylvie Blum

Director:

Christophe Weber

Footage Archive Researcher:

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

2

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE LOST WORLD OF THE RAJ

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

Episode 1 - Home from Home

Company name:

BBC Birmingham

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

15/06/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC 2

Programme Duration (Mins):

60

Series number episodes:

3

Producer:

Marion Milne

Director:

David Symonds

Footage Archive Researcher:

Jan Vaughan

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Emily Taylor

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

Empire and Commonwealth Museum

2

Centre For South Asian Studies

3

Rajpipla Family in India

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

To coincide with the 60th anniversary of Indian Independence, this three part documentary series takes us on a journey behind the scenes of what was known as the greatest show on earth: British India under the Raj. The first episode recreates a lost era in the 1930s, when British expatriates attempted to create an idyllic version of English life in India. Using remarkable home movies (including the rediscovered family films of Mark Tully, former BBC Delhi correspondent) a lost way of life is recreated. A world in which families had a retinue of servants, rode into the jungle on elephants, and floated down rivers on inflated buffalo skins. We travel across India and Pakistan to explore the home and family life of the British Raj: we hear from one of the last surviving punkah wallahs who worked the fans for an English household in British India, and we bring back a couple, now in their late 80s, who were married in Lahore, whose first child was born in Rawalpindi and who have not been back since 1947.

Reason for submission in English

The Lost World of The Raj was a unique series in that it looked at the lives of the British in India through previously undiscovered rare home movie footage. The production team traced many of those featured in the footage and told their stories and unique perspective of life during the last 25 years. The executive producer discovered a large amount of film archive in the basements of the Empire and Commonwealth museum in Bristol. Following this discovery the team set about a search for other sources of home archive along with contributors who featured in them. A nine production schedule led to the completion of 3 prime-time films on BBC 2 themed around the British and Indian experience of work, home and play during the last 25 years of the Raj.

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE PATRIOT GAME

Company name:

AkaJava Films

Country of Origin of cited work:

Ireland

First Transmission / Publication Date:

28/3/07

Where published (Channel/Website):

TG4

Programme Duration (Mins):

52’

Producer:

Director:

Footage Archive Researcher:

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

TG4 Library

2

RTE Library

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

The untold story of the IRA’s renewed war against Britain in the 1950’s. Through the words of former IRA activists and archive footage drawn from un-broadcast private collections, the documentary charts the evolution of Irish Republicanism before the Northern ‘Troubles’ Combining a strong narrative and exclusive interviews with eye-witnesses and those who participated at first hand, the documentary offers a fascinating inside account of the bloody events of the six year border campaign. Encompassing subterfuge, counter-intelligence, gun-running and daring raids the IRA eventually became weakened by divisions within the ranks. The guerilla war eventually fizzled out due to lack of public support and a crackdown on the organization by Eamon de Valera and Charlie Haughey. However the IRA remained intact and seven years later a new war began which dispensed with the idealism of the 1950s and was far more ruthless.

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE POUND IN YOUR POCKET

Company name:

BBC Parliament

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

18 Nov 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC Parliament

Programme Duration (Mins):

6 hours

Producer:

Simon Vaughan

Director:

Simon Vaughan

Footage Archive Researcher:

Rupert Farmer

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Alasdair Rendall

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

BBC News

2

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Veteran presenter from the heyday of BBC current affairs Cliff Michelmore returns to our screens to introduce an evening of archive programmes and specially filmed interviews with the politicians, civil servants and commentators involved in the 1967 devaluation of the Pound. Archive programmes include: Twenty-Four Hours with Cliff Michelmore; The Money Programme with William Davis and Alan Watson; the ‘grand inquisitor’ Robin Day in the Our Money special containing Harold Wilson’s infamous “pound in your pocket” address; Panorama with an appearance by a young David Dimbleby; highlights from Budget ’68 - Ian Trethowan and the team examine Roy Jenkins’ deflationary budget live as the Chancellor removed £923 million from the economy.

Reason for submission in English

We wanted to look at a moment in political history. The value of using archive at this length is that it opens up to view the changing techniques of television, interviews and politicians. The programmes tell us about ourselves and the changing nature of British society. Among the few women to appear are City secretaries, filmed knitting. Stephen Pile, The Telegraph, said: “It was like entering a parallel universe, still black and white, full of long-dead politicians forever exercised by terrible problems now solved. Above all, these Britons were similar to us, but significantly different”.

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE PUTIN SYSTEM

Company name:

Films Grain De Sable

Country of Origin of cited work:

France

First Transmission / Publication Date:

11th September 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

TSR Switzerland

Programme Duration (Mins):

98'

Producer:

Jean-Michel CARRE

Director:

Jean -Michel CARRE /Jill EMERY

Footage Archive Researcher:

Maria Oleneva

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

NTV Russia

2

LRT Lithuania

3

CTV Ukraine

4

RGAKFD KRASNOGORSK

5

St Petersburg DOC FILM

Brief Synopsis in English

A pawn in the KGB system, Vladimir Putin patiently, and invisibly played all the rules of the game to reach the throne of power, never forgetting his allegiance to the KGB. Since 2000, the Kremlin’s grand arbitrator, has unscrupulously orchestrated a new system : a psychological gulag where “tsar” TV has doped the people, massacre in Chechnya, in the name of Russian sovereignty. quasi abolition of a free press, crushing of political opposition, “privatization of the state” by government oligarchs, cynical assassination of state “enemies”. Opponents to Putin’s system are the enemy within, the American “wolf”, the enemy without. Oil and gas are his system’s weapons and economic trump card, his empire and his challenge to the world….

Reason for submission in English

This film is the result of 3 years of research and reflection on a system which we all acknowledge today. The use of library footage has been made to investigate both the visual and factual elements which illustrate our thesis. The juxtaposition and edit of these different archives, some of which have never been used before, are an essential part of the story line and analysis of our major character and essential in the construction of the puzzle which reveals a system and a means to an end.

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE RAPE OF NANKING

Company name:

POINT DU JOUR

Country of Origin of cited work:

France

First Transmission / Publication Date:

28/11/07

Where published (Channel/Website):

ARTE France

Programme Duration (Mins):

52

Producer:

Luc Martin-Gousset

Director:

Serge Viallet

Footage Archive Researcher:

Serge Viallet

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Jun Mori

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

Imperial War Museum

2

NARA

3

Library of Congress

4

Nippon Eiga Shinsha

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Nanking is a horrifying story that defies comprehension. The invading Japanese military pillaged, burnt and massacred more than 100,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers between December 1937 and February 1938. Our documentary “investigates” Japan’s history in an attempt to shed light on the deep-rooted causes of such barbarity. A moment of sheer madness? Orders from the military hierarchy? 70 years on, it’s time to comprehend. And it will be the testimonies of the last surviving Japanese veterans – set against the memories of surviving Chinese witnesses – that offer the most credible explanation.

Reason for submission in English

The documentary contains 25 min. of footage

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE SECRET LIFE OF THE MOTORWAY

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

The Honeymoon Period

Company name:

BBC

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

22/08/2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC Four

Programme Duration (Mins):

60 mins

Series number episodes:

3

Producer:

Gaby Hornsby

Director:

Gaby Hornsby

Footage Archive Researcher:

Miriam Walsh

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

BFI

2

Heritage Motor Museum

3

Motorway Archive Trust

4

ITN Source/ Pathe / Granada

5

Film Images

Brief Synopsis in English

This critically acclaimed series pays evocative homage to Britain’s Motorways - to the people who built them, the people who use them, and the people who risked their lives to stop them. Along the way it relives everything from early driving experiences and the joys of motorway services to tales of the epic construction process and the rise of the protest movement. This second episode deftly interweaves archive and specially shot footage to explore the Technicolor world of prosperity and freedom that motorways promised and the wonderful, and weird, destinations that they took us to – from Terence Conran designed service station restaurants, to ‘orbital’ raves, to shopping centres complete with the infrastructure of a small town… Throughout the series the telling use of archive allows the hopes and dreams of post war Britain to be explored through this cornerstone of modern Britain - the motorway.

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE SELLING GAME

Company name:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Country of Origin of cited work:

Canada

First Transmission / Publication Date:

October 25, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

CBC Television

Programme Duration (Mins):

45’

Producer:

Susan Teskey

Director:

Susan Teskey

Footage Archive Researcher:

Michelle Demeyere

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

2

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

TV advertising used to be such an easy business. They played the ads, we watched the ads. But along came hundreds of new channels, and Tivo, and the internet, and audiences scattered. The Selling Game is all about how marketers not only survived the so-called Panic on Madison Avenue, but rang in a new gilded age of advertising. Digital media, the Internet and cable TV, have handed marketers incredibly powerful new keys to our hearts and minds, and wallets. Give us an hour of attention, and we'll see that you never look at ads the same way again.

Reason for submission in English

The documentary is a story of corporate messages and the challenge was in acquiring and using meticulously guarded material. In a dance around control over the footage, The Selling Game carefully stays on the side of journalism - commenting on the commercial footage without becoming another medium for its messages. This documentary’s footage also points to a new direction and vital source for visual researchers: the Internet. Much of the material, for example, consumer-generated ads, was only available online, and finding/crediting the author takes on other challenges.

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE SUPREME COURT

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

A Nation of Liberties

Company name:

Thirteen/WNET New York

Country of Origin of cited work:

USA

First Transmission / Publication Date:

Jan. 31, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

PBS

Programme Duration (Mins):

60 Minutes x 4 Parts

Series number episodes:

4

Producer:

Jody Sheff

Director:

Thomas Lennon

Footage Archive Researcher:

Una LaMarche

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Kathryn Lord

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

Corbis

2

ABC News Archive

3

NBC News Archive

4

Library of Congress

5

The Supreme Court

Brief Synopsis in English

The series explores the history, impact and drama of America’s highest court, using archival footage and innovative graphic techniques. Interviews with some of the greatest legal minds in the country – including Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and retired justice Sandra Day O’Connor – provide context to key decisions. By fusing history with biography, the series humanizes the enigmatic black-robed figures who sit on the court, and explores the stories of the people whose cases have come before the court.

Reason for submission in English

The series explores the history, impact and drama of America’s highest court, using archival footage and innovative graphic techniques. Interviews with some of the greatest legal minds in the country – including Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and retired justice Sandra Day O’Connor – provide context to key decisions. By fusing history with biography, the series humanizes the enigmatic black-robed figures who sit on the court, and explores the stories of the people whose cases have come before the court.

Title of Production/Series cited:

THE WAR

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

Episode Six

Company name:

Florentine Films

Country of Origin of cited work:

USA

First Transmission / Publication Date:

September 23, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

PBS

Programme Duration (Mins):

122 mins. (Ep 6)

Series number episodes:

7

Producer:

Ken Burns

Director:

Ken Burns

Footage Archive Researcher:

Sarah Botstein

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Peter Miller

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

National Archives

2

Imperial War Museum

3

FOX Movietone News

4

Getty Images

5

Private Collections

Brief Synopsis in English

The War, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns. The series explores the most intimate human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history — a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America — and demonstrates that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives. Six years in the making, “The War” is the first full retelling of the struggle in more than a generation. In addition to the moving commentary from veterans, it features never-before-seen footage, raw photographs, and the voices of Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Lucas, Adam Arkin—among others—who read the newspaper reports, letters, diaries, and journals of those who have not survived to the present. The series also features perhaps the most realistic sound effects ever used for a documentary, which gives a terrifying immediacy to the battle scenes.

Title of Production/Series cited:

TIMEWATCH

Specific Episode entered as representing a Series cited:

Hijack

Company name:

BBC Vision

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

13.04.07

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC 2

Programme Duration (Mins):

50 mins

Producer:

Dominic Sutherland

Director:

Dominic Sutherland

Footage Archive Researcher:

Dinah Rogers

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

APTN

2

BBC

3

ITN

4

CBS

5

Index Stockshots

Brief Synopsis in English

Timewatch: Hijack September 1970. A BOAC flight with over 20 school children on board was hijacked in the name of a Palestinian guerrilla group. It was just one part of an audacious plan called Skyjack Sunday. Of the five planes hijacked, four were captured. But the crew of El Al flight 219 fought back, killing one of the guerrillas and capturing a female Palestinian hijacker, Leila Khaled. She soon found herself in Ealing police station, a pawn in international negotiations along with the men, women and children on the captured airplanes. With interviews from hostages and their hijackers Timewatch goes back to the month when airplane travel changed forever.

Reason for submission in English

Reason for submission – Timewatch - Hijack The hijack of five planes in September 1970 by the guerrilla group the PFLP was masterminded to bring the Palestinian cause to the world’s attention through the growing news media. The hijackers even held press conferences on the desert runway in front of the world’s press pack. The result is extraordinary archive record of the events of September 1970 and the subsequent civil war in Jordan. Hijack also contains archive film setting out the background to the Palestinian struggle and the conflict with Israel, aviation and security footage from the period, and reactions from around the world to the hostage-taking. Many of the interviewees in the programme were discovered in the archive record. Hijack is not only a story that relies on archive to tell it, but is in itself an account of the power of the moving image for political ends. After all, who can forget the iconic image of those three hijacked planes being blown up in the Jordanian desert?

Title of Production/Series cited:

T-ÓSTAL NA MBÁD

Company name:

Mikey Ó Flatharta Darba

Country of Origin of cited work:

Ireland

First Transmission / Publication Date:

25/12/07

Where published (Channel/Website):

TG4

Programme Duration (Mins):

25:00

Producer:

Director:

Footage Archive Researcher:

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

TG4 Library

2

RTE Library

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

TG4 are set to screen a documentary on Christmas day which reunites the men who won An Tóstal, The All Ireland Rowing Championship in 1955. The documentary which was directed by Mikey Ó Flatharta from Carraroe brings the three men rowing together again to relive the experience 52 years later which many doubted they would win due to the tough competition in the race. The men themselves share their personal experiences of that day and recount how they beat some of the best rowers in the country. The story centres around three men, Pádraig Dairbe Ó Flatharta, Beartla Dairbe Ó Flatharta and Reamonn Jimmy Mac Donnchadha. All three men lived on the small island of Inis Mhic Cionnaith locate just a mile out from Carraroe. The community on this island in 1953 consisted of just six houses which have all been vacated and the individuals relocated to Carraroe wince the 1960s. Rowing was more than a pastime to these men, it was a way of life. The location of the island meant it was impossible for them to use any mode of transport other than the currachs to reach the mainland. Shops, dances and even school all required travelling to Carraroe which was challenging in harsh weather conditions. These men waters like the back of their hands and it was this unique knowledge that enabled them to win the All Ireland Rowing Championship.

Title of Production/Series cited:

TROID FUILTEACH

Company name:

Kelcom Ltd. t/a Fastnet Films

Country of Origin of cited work:

Ireland

First Transmission / Publication Date:

Sept 07

Where published (Channel/Website):

Dublin

Programme Duration (Mins):

52:00

Producer:

Director:

Footage Archive Researcher:

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

TG4 Library

2

RTE Library

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

Three unrelated events - a black heavyweight champion without a challenger, a civil war and a journeyman Irish fighter down on his luck - conspire to produce the most bizarre world championship fight in boxing history, on St. Patrick's Day 1923 in Dublin city. The newly founded Free State government, the new light weight champion of the world, Battling Siki from Senegael and Mike McTigue, a Clare born Irish fighter returning from New York all needed each other. The politicians needed legitimacy, Siki needed money and McTigue needed a fight. A syndicate of horse racing brought them all together. And so it was that the world's sporting press descended on a civil war zone on March 17 1923.

Title of Production/Series cited:

UNDER THE FASCIST YOKE

Company name:

Televisio de Catalunya

Country of Origin of cited work:

Spain

First Transmission / Publication Date:

April 29, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

TV3 (Televisio de Catalunya)

Programme Duration (Mins):

90

Producer:

Jordi Munoz

Director:

M.Dolors Genoves

Footage Archive Researcher:

Aurora Bastida

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Montserrat Bailac

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

Istituto Luce

2

British Film Institute

3

Filmoteca de Catalunya

4

NO-DO

5

ITN

Brief Synopsis in English

“Under the Fascist Yoke” covers the conspiracy between extreme right-wing parties and the generals to overthrow the Spanish Republic by force. The documentary sheds new light on the uneasy, shifting alliance between Falangists, Carlists, and Alfonsists in their ruthless quest for power, revealing from where they drew their support and the depth of their roots in Catalonia. The extent to which the Falange and the National- Socialist movement (JONS) collaborated to undermine the Republic is also explored, as is Falangist complicity in the post-war repression.

Reason for submission in English

“Under the Fascist Yoke” is the fascinating saga of Fascism in Catalonia between 1922 and 1942. It not only reveals the dark forces ranged against the Republic, but is also timely in that it features the live testimony of some of the conspirators, all of whom are well into their twilight years.

Title of Production/Series cited:

WESTERBORK GIRL

Company name:

DNU FILM

Country of Origin of cited work:

The Netherlands

First Transmission / Publication Date:

May 3d, 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

VPRO TV Holland doc

Programme Duration (Mins):

48

Series number episodes:

1

Producer:

Rolf Orthel

Director:

Steffie van den Oord

Footage Archive Researcher:

Steffie van den Oord

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

NIOD (Neth.Inst.for War Documentation)

2

VARA TV

3

4

5

Brief Synopsis in English

The love story of Hannelore Cahn (83, living in Brooklyn) and her great love Rob de Vries, the Jewish actor and resistance hero who freed her spectacularly from the Westerbork transit camp in WW2. A week after her escape she chose to return to the camp with Hans Eisinger of the Jewish camp police. A decision that still haunts her. Hannelore was one of the Westerbork Girls, the chorus line of the camp revue. Singing and dancing seemed to protect her from deportation to Auschwitz. She still wonders why she returned to the camp and never forgot her ‘Big love’.

Reason for submission in English

Title of Production/Series cited:

WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE GREAT WAR DADDY?

Company name:

TESTIMONY FILMS

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

NOVEMBER 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC4

Programme Duration (Mins):

60 mins

Producer:

STEVE HUMPHRIES

Director:

STEVE HUMPHRIES

Footage Archive Researcher:

LIZI COSSLETT

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

RICHARD VAN EMDEN

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

IWM

2

BFI

3

ITN SOURCE

4

BBC

5

COI

Brief Synopsis in English

The deeply moving story of the half million British children who lost their fathers in World War, told through the memories of the last of that generation. Illustrated with little known archive, dramatisation and personal letters and postcards, the heartfelt stories of loss and the lifelong impact it made on family life are vividly recounted. This was the biggest loss of fathers in modern British history.

Reason for submission in English

This film brought to light a little known aspect of World War 1 which had huge consequences on children and family life. It was critically acclaimed for its powerful testimony and its subtle interweaving of archive, personal mementoes and dramatisation.

Title of Production/Series cited:

WINDSCALE: THE BIGGEST NUCLEAR DISASTER

Country of Origin of cited work:

UK

First Transmission / Publication Date:

08 October 2007

Where published (Channel/Website):

BBC Two

Programme Duration (Mins):

87'54'

Series number episodes:

1

Producer:

Paul Dwyer

Director:

Sarah Aspinall

Footage Archive Researcher:

Eamonn Walsh

Footage Archive Researcher (2):

Sue Malden

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

BBC

2

BNFL Sellafield

3

COI Film Archive / Crown Copyright

4

Channel 4 Clip Sales

5

UKAEA Harwell

Brief Synopsis in English

In October 1957, Britain suffered its worst nuclear accident. Fire began to spread throughout the core of the Windscale nuclear reactor, sending radioactive dust across Britain. Using rare footage and tape recordings of the inquiry into the fire - kept secret for 50 years and now heard for the first time - and interviews with the men who risked their lives to prevent a nuclear tragedy, the film shows how political ambition fuelled the fire, how Prime Minister Macmillan, desperate not to undermine Britain's relationship with the US, covered up the truth and made scapegoats of the heroes of Windscale.

Reason for submission in English

An imaginative mix of colour and B&W footage, original recordings from the Windscale enquiry and interviews with the people on the ground tell the gripping story of the Windscale fire. Clips from the COI film “Operation Hurricane”, the story of Britain’s first atomic bomb test in 1952, features rare footage of Sir William Penny, Director of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. “Atomic Achievement”, filmed in Eastman colour, is an account from 1956 of Britain's nuclear power programme. Colour footage of Windscale a year before the fire captures the excitement and "spin" that surrounded the nuclear programme at the time.