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xiii) Award for Best Use of Footage in a Home Video Release

 

A Dream of Flight
Countrywide Productions
UK / 2009

Producer: Michael Maloney
Director: Michael Maloney
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Nathalie Banaigs

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

Private collections
Moving Image Communications Ltd
Atelier des Archives
Footage Farm
Library of Congress

2009 was the 100th anniversary of what is generally recognised as the first powered flight by a Briton in Britain. It was accomplished by J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon from the airfield of the Royal Aero Club at Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, in 1909. A Dream of Flight chronicles, through interviews and archive film, the development of aviation and the extraordinary events that took place on Sheppey in the years leading up to the 1st World War. From the first experiments by the Wright Brothers, Bleriot in France, and Samuel Cody in England, it culminated in the establishment of the Short Brothers factories on the Isle of Sheppey.
The film deals with the development of flight throughout the world during the period leading up to the Gordon Bennett International Air Race, and is designed to put the events on the Isle of Sheppey between 1909 and 1914 into a historical context. Extensive use of archive material intercut with expert analysis supports and emphasises these achievements and help demonstrate the importance of the 1909 events on Sheppey. It also helps local communities understand the special significance of the landscape they live in, and it will remain an inspiration and a source of pride to those who live there.

 

All About Animals
BBC
UK / 2009

Producer: Tania Dorrity
Director: Tania Dorrity
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Ruth Dyson, Valeria Fabbri-Kennedy, Emma Jones and Joe Watson

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: BBC Natural History archive - various

Each episode in this 52 part series for children is a dramatic story focusing on the life of a named young animal as it faces the challenges of growing up. Along the way we meet family and friends; face threats and dangers and discover just what it takes to survive in the wild
This series is an entirely archive origination, delivering charming, new, imaginatively written films which turn learning into a delight

British Invasion - Small Faces: All Or Nothing 1965-1968
Reelin' In The Years Productions
USA / 2009

Producer: David Peck, Phil Galloway, Tom Gulotta
Director: David Peck
Footage Archive Researcher(s): David Peck

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

Reelin' In The Years Productions
BBC Worldwide
INA
Fremantle Media Ltd.
Historic Films Archives, LLC

At long last, the definitive official film for one of the greatest groups of the sixties (or any other decade for that matter.). Small Faces: All Or Nothing 1965 – 1968 features 23 complete performances filmed from 1965 to 1968 when the band was challenging the Who, Kinks, Stones and Beatles for domination of the charts. The DVD captures every aspect of their short but brilliant career including early Mod/R&B classics such as “Whatcha Gonna Do About It”, “Sha La La La Lee” and “All Or Nothing”, timeless rockers like “Tin Soldier” and later psychedelic masterpieces including “Itchycoo Park”, and “Green Circles.” Best of all is the inclusion of nine songs from the band’s LP masterpiece Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake including the title track, “Lazy Sunday”, “Song Of A Baker” and the six song Happiness Stan suite. In between the performances original members Ian McLagan, Kenney Jones and Jimmy Winston talk about the songs and tell the band’s history in new interviews filmed exclusively for the film as well as archival interviews with the late Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane.
The British Invasion is one of the truly great eras of popular music. In roughly a three-year period, young British artists fused American rock & roll, blues, R&B, country and pop into a dynamic new sound that forever changed the face of music and culture. Our goal with this series is to tell the story of the British Invasion one artist at a time. We’ve chosen to submit this title from our British Invasion series because the Small Faces were one of the most underappreciated yet influential groups in the last 45 years of music.

forsenses: A Fascinating Journey Into Nature & Sound
Framepool AG
Germany / 2009

Producer: Philipp von Kap-herr
Director:
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Ulf Remy

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

“forsenses“ combines amazing HD-shoots of the four elements with a specifically composed 3D surround chill-out soundtrack on a Blu-ray Disc. As a world first, it offers a headphone-surround 3D audio track for commercially available headphones. The result is an audiovisual symphony which opens up a whole new dimension: Never before has film been such an intense experience. Thanks to exceptional HD-footage, natural spectacles such as a raindrop splashing onto a leaf or flower can now be witnessed by the human eye. The HD-shoots originate entirely from Framepool and reflect a technical standard which is state-of-the-art.
Behind “forsenses” lie the endeavours of notable film specialists, high-speed cinematographers, underwater filmmakers and helicopter camera experts. The film has been produced by BluElements, a production company exclusively founded for this project. Since the very beginning, Framepool has been included in the project. For more than five years a huge amount of material has been scanned and carefully screened for content and quality. But not only existing stock material was used: licensors from Framepool’s broad network also shot to order. This disc combines the experience of filmmakers from all over the world. Never before was High Definition so intensively perceptible.

Monty Python Almost The Truth: The Lawyers Cut
Bill & Ben Productions
UK / 2009

Producer: Ben Timlett, Bill Jones
Director: Ben Timlett, Bill Jones, Alan Parker
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Laura Hodgson

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

Python Monty Pictures
BBC Motion Gallery
NBC News
CBS News
Iain Johnstone

The legacy of British comic royalty Monty Python -- whose irreverent and influential brand of humor tickled the ribs of millions -- is explored in this luxurious six-part documentary highlighted by interviews with the surviving Python members.
The 6 x 1 hour series was broadcast on The Independent Film Channel in the US with the DVD released worldwide 2 weeks later. We feel Eagle Rocks 3 disk DVD release of the series is an excellent product with superb menus, this includes a full disk devoted to extras and a forward specially written by Steve Coogan all wonderfully packaged together in the full spirit of the programs we produced.

Over Our Dead Bodies
Stewkley Film Archive
UK / 2009

Producer: John Flewin
Director: John Flewin
Footage Archive Researcher(s): John Flewin

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

Three Amateur Camermen
BBC Motion Gallery
East Anglian Film Archive

The story of the 1969-71 campaign to stop the building of the Third London Airport. Whole villages were to be destroyed, and thousands of people were to be evicted from their homes.
This is very much a local production, using amateur and professional film side by side to depict an epic period in the life of several Bucks villages. The mission of the Stewkley Film Archive, a local undertaking, is to keep local history alive. This is its first publication and will perhaps help encourage other local communities to save and make available locally shot historic film.

 

The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)
NSSAW
UK / 2009

Producer: Iola Baines
Director: John Reed
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Dave Berry

Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)

Filmed during the latter part of 1918 and directed by Maurice Elvey, The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918) is a remarkable biopic of a notable figure in British political history. Sequences in this silent tinted and toned film follow from his home in North Wales, through his early career as a solicitor to his election as a politician and his rise to Prime Minister during WW1, culminating in November 1918 with the declaration of peace. The addition of an entirely new music score, composed and performed by Neil Brand enhances the visual imagery of the original film.
Perhaps the first example of a biopic of a living politician, this suppressed film was believed lost for over 70 years, before it was found by the Wales Film Archive in 1994. This DVD, reproduced from the restored 35mm, has been produced to widen access to a unique piece of cinema history. An introduction by Philip Madoc and a totally new score composed and performed by Neil Brand brings new dimensions to this remarkable film. Neil also joins film historian Kevin Brownlow in providing fascinating additional material in the form of in-depth interviews on this new DVD release.

 

The Norman Lear Collection
Authorized Pictures
USA / 2009

Producer: David Leaf & John Scheinfeld
Director: David Leaf & John Scheinfeld
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Peter Lynch & Arlene Wszalek

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

Sony Pictures Archives
Norman Lear Archives

The Norman Lear TV Collection features the complete first seasons of six celebrated Norman Lear television series (including “All In The Family” and “Maude”, along with 25 episodes from the first season of “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.” The four hours of bonus features produced by Authorized Pictures to accompany this set not only include never-before-seen archival footage from the original pilots of “All In The Family,” but incorporate extensive use of archival clips to place these legendary series into their richly-deserved cultural and historical context.
Peter S. Lynch II not only edited and co-produced these features, but was the driving force behind the selection and use of the archival footage contained within them. His insight and intellect helped to shape the project, and in turn, to impart to viewers how Norman Lear’s television shows helped shape the cultural conversations of the U.S. from the 1970s, when All In The Family premiered, through to today.