1929: The Great Crash
Blakeway Productions
UK /
2009
Producer: Joanna Bartholomew
Director: Joanna Bartholomew
Footage Archive Researcher: Lisa Clayton-Jones
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
ITN Source
British Movietonews
Huntley
University of South Carolina/ Newsfilm
Clips and footage
As part of the City season, a new film explores the causes of the Wall Street Crash. In 1929 the US stock market collapsed, wiping out many thousands of ordinary Americans. As thousands of banks failed, a devastating worldwide depression took hold. Surviving eyewitnesses describe the biggest financial catastrophe in history.
The story of the Wall Street Crash has too often been dismissed as lacking the rich archive needed to make film about a financial crash without recourse to leaden dramatic reconstructions. Our film shows that this is not the case. The documentary is a coruscating kaleidoscope of archive from a wide range of different sources, some never trawled before. Lisa Clayton Jones’ research enabled the producers to make a gripping film and bring a hitherto neglected but timely story to life.
40 Years of TVN, Your Story is My Story (40 Años TVN, Tu Historia Es Mi Historia) 40 AÑOS TVN,TU HISTGORIA ES MI HISTORIA
TELEVISION NACIONAL DE CHILE
CHILE /
2009
Producer: CLAUDIA GODOY
Director: CLAUDIA GODOY
Footage Archive Researcher: AMIRA ARRATIA
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: TVN Audiovisuals Archives
The signal state already meets 40, and to celebrate, its area of production has created a special program dedicated to remembering the history of the canal since its inception, with the help of key respondents, stunning archive images and the memory of all both on and off, lived these 40 years with TVN. In a series of 8 chapters, divided by era and milestones in the history of Chile, seeks to narrate the steps you had to live through the channel to finally arrive at what we all know today. With that typical nostalgic feel of the programs own historical account, TVN 40 years is guided by the motto "your story, my story" Collecting evidence of their current face from the perspective of a spectator who once had. The dark years during dictatorship, the press censorship, infiltrates of IPC and the difficulties that professionals were facing daily. The truth versus what was transmitted, fraud in certain cultural competitions, the disappearance of some actors and faces ... the history of our country went off the television cameras, and much of what is not known, was registered by those worked there. That is the mission of TVN 40 years, Reveal the secrets and stumbles along the great successes that have made the state a signal channel that lives to this day. The series is broadcast every Monday, at 24.00.
This program took off today novelty to see at 7, there's a part of Chilean history that only exists in the archives of TVN. That is the value of Your Story is My Story, because it allows us to review milestones and size once again how television has changed in its forms, rhythms and technological elements, but we remain a country where issues of interest are same and that television is also reiterated in formulas, characters and events. Politics, entertainment, sport and always present are the lifeblood of an entertainment industry that today has all the resources at its disposal to have a level of excellence. Of course it is moving to remove the files, view with another view events that changed our lives, but this program is at times a shade of guilt and justification for having quiet, omitted or distorted information which gives it a fascination that makes it palatable.
A Tale of Two Britains
Blakeway Productions
UK / 2009
Producer: Alex Leith
Director: Alex Leith
Footage Archive Researcher: Lisa Clayton-Jones
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Pathe
BFI
British Movietonenews
Clips and Footage
Weguelin
The conventional view of 1930s Britain is of slag heaps, unemployed men hanging round street corners with nothing to do, hunger marches and economic depression. This is only part of the truth. The 1930s for Britain was a period of transformation, a time of rising prosperity. Consumption increased as new gadgets came on the market. Car ownership increased massively and, as leisure time grew, so did travel as people took holidays – many for the first time. Millions went to the cinema two or three times a week, and eating out became commonplace. For many, the 1930s was a golden age.
As a social history of Britain in the 1930s, “A Tale of Two Britains” depended heavily on the strength of its archive footage. In examining the transformations and contrasts of that decade, there could be no substitute for seeing real footage of the time, and hearing those wonderful 1930s voices - from Neville Chamberlain’s informal budget speeches to promotional films about the modern marvels of electricity or the motorcar. Thanks to the tenacity of Lisa Clayton-Jones, a selection of charming, funny and surprising archive footage helped bring to life a decade that is too frequently seen in shades of grey.
A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony
National Film Board of Canada
Canada /
2009
Producer: Marcy Page, Adam Symansky
Director: Donald McWilliams
Footage Archive Researcher:
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
BBC National Archives
London Imperial War Museum
Images of Empire
Donald McWilliams
Donald McWilliams is hardly out of his teens when he arrives in Kenya for his national service. A child of wartime London, raised on the romance of Empire, he’d imagined a great African adventure — but an encounter with Mau Mau rebels alters the course of his life. He confronts his past in a strikingly conceived film memoir that revisits the 1950’s insurgency. Never-before-seen archival footage and in depth testimony from a Mau Mau veteran, an Asian defence lawyer and a former colonial officer make this an important historical document about one of the most contentious episodes in Britain’s imperial history.
Historically, 1950s Kenya colony has been witnessed in film through propaganda newsreels and fictional recreations that depict the Mau Mau as wild savages to be broken at all costs. Here, such materials serve as entry point – and counterpoint – to an intimately researched spectrum of sources only now coming to market. Archival material represents 47% of the film and includes uncovered treasures: colour footage of the detention camps, antique lantern slides discovered at a London street-market – even colour film of McWilliams himself, a find that 50 years later convinced him it had all really happened and that a film must be made.
A Wall in Berlin (Un Mur à Berlin)
Kuiv Productions
France / 2009
Producer: Michel Rotman
Director: Patrick Rotman
Footage Archive Researcher: Marie-Hélène Barbéris, Claudia Klein, Michael Dolan
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: Deutsche Wochenschau, RBB, NDR, Progress Film, Spiegel TV
Almost twenty years ago, on November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. This was a historic moment that, for many, marked the end of the twentieth century and its great dramas. Indeed, the fall of the Wall symbolized the end of the Soviet system that had played a significant role on the world stage and left its mark on a large part of the planet during the 70 years of its existence.
Our film tells the story of an end: the end of a Wall that, from its construction to collapse, symbolized a divided Europe, the confrontation of two blocs and the German tragedy. Berlin, the former capital of the Reich, carries the stigma of the two totalitarianisms of the 20th century: communism and Nazism.
Airmen and The Headhunters
Icon Films
UK / 2009
Producer: Mark Radice
Director: Mark Radice
Footage Archive Researcher: Tim Jordan & Polly Pettit
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Australian Government Department of Defence
Clips and Footage
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Thought Equity Motion
The Airmen & The Headhunters recounts the extraordinary story of how a U.S. bomber crew, shot down over the jungles of Japanese occupied Borneo during the Second World War were rescued by Dayak tribesmen – a tribe known for taking the heads of their enemies. The Dayaks fed and protected the airmen before leading them to the base of the maverick British special ops officer, Major Tom Harrisson, who was fighting a guerrilla war against the Japanese with a band of Australian Commandoes.
Andrew Marr's the Making of Modern Britain
BBC Factual London
UK /
2009
Producer: Fatima Salaria
Director: Fatima Salaria
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Stuart Robertson
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
British Film Institute
ITN Source / British Pathe
ITN Source / Reuters
Canal + UK
USC Newsfilm Library
With rare archive and vivid anecdotes, Andrew Marr tells the story of Britain in the 1920s – a great new age of experiment in politics, writing, art, sex and drugs. While some embraced the new urban scene of nightclubs, cocktails and jazz, revolutionaries were provoking riots on 'Red' Clydeside. The housing boom created new suburban comfort. The birth of radio broadcasting and the BBC introduced a new world of entertainment. Political sleaze engulfed Lloyd George, while Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin faced down the trades unions in the General Strike. As the decade ended, many hopes and dreams were destroyed.
In this episode, the turbulence and excitement of Britain in the twenties is brought to life by the extensive use of authentic and rare footage from the era. From the dazzling beauty of the nightclub scene to the class war of the General Strike, we demonstrate the unique ability of film archive to draw the viewer in to the liveliness and urgency of the age. The extraordinary range of footage, complementing Andrew Marr’s compelling storytelling, drew acclaim from critics and audiences across this 6 part series
Apocalypse - World War II
CC&C
France /
2009
Producer: Louis Vaudeville
Director: Daniel Costelle & Isabelle Clarke
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Morgane Barrier & William Murphy
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
NARA
NHK
ECPAD
Agentur Karl Höffkes
Atelier des archives (Coll. British Moviestonews)
The landmark series on World War II from France Télévisions in HD, colour and 5.1 Dolby Digital, featuring 50% of never seen archives. APOCALYPSE, tells us about this huge conflict through the often tragic destinies of those who lived it (soldiers), those who suffered from it (civilians), and those who ran it (the political and military leaders). Series sold in more than 165 countries including USA, Scandinavia, Japan, Germany…
The series is stronger than anything we have seen on WWII in a long time: it is very theatrical with a strong emotional dramaturgy. The documentary is made up entirely of stock footage found across the world, all colorized and edited from the sum of 600 hours rushes coming from over fifty different sources, most of which have never been seen before. All selected footage, often damaged over time, have been carefully restored and colorized thanks to expertise of historical consultants. Apocalypse is a media and television phenomenon, in its last prime time in France, it reached 8 million viewers (31%MS).
Berlin: 20 Years After
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canada / 2009
Producer: Sylvene Gilchrist
Director: Lucie Gagnon
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Michelle Demeyere &Francine Rouleau
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
CBC Archive
SRC Archive
Berlin, 20 Years After takes a fresh look at the fall of the Berlin Wall using unseen archival material and contemporary accounts. The story is told from the perspective of three family members spanning three generations, and through the recollections of a CBC correspondent who was covering Germany at the time.
In the fall of 1989, CBC correspondent Jerry Thompson had been covering the situation in Germany for some months. In this documentary, he returns to Berlin for the first time in 20 years. Through the archive of his reports from 1989, we look back at the stories he was telling then and compare the Berlin of twenty years ago to the Berlin of today.
China's Capitalist Revolution
Brook Lapping Productions
UK / 2009
Producer: Rob Coldstream
Director: Rob Coldstream
Footage Archive Researcher: Judy Patterson
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
BBC Motion Gallery
AP Archive
China Central Television
Central Newsreel & Documentary Film Studio
Contemporary Films
This is the story of the biggest turnaround in world history – the conversion of the Chinese Communist Party to capitalism. Through interviews with Chinese government officials, entrepreneurs, workers who helped engineer Deng’s reforms and y them, this programme tells the story of China’s transformation into an economic superpower – while remaining still, nominally, communist. Featuring unique archive film previously unseen outside China, including top level Communist party meetings and historic footage of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.
Rarely seen archive, particularly of Party meetings and leader Deng Xiaoping, added greatly to the insight. Much of it has never been seen in the West before. Apart from the interviews, the programme was told entirely through the use of archive, so the use of it was particularly important in bringing this important and previously untold story to life.
Convoy: Battle of the Atlantic
Cream Productions Inc.
Canada/UK co pro / 2009
Producer: David Brady
Director: Christopher Rowley
Footage Archive Researcher: Anita Turcotte, Bea Read & Paul Gardner
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Library Archives Canada
Imperial War Museum
Transit for Bundes Archiv
National Film Board of Canada
Personal photos from veterans
In 1942 the Battle of the Atlantic rages on. The fate of Britain and the Allied war effort hangs in the balance. Desperate to inflict a crippling blow on Britain's shipping lifeline, Hitler's U-boats are sent to North America in search of easier prey. The success of these attacks will help push the Allies to edge of collapse.
This is the story of the Battle of the Atlantic, the convoys and the escorts and how the U-boats threatened them constantly throughout the war, an incredible story of courage. I loved working on it for a year. We did the UK version first, 4 episodes, then the Canadian version, 4 episodes. It cost to do it but it was worth it, I'm very proud of it.
Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil
BBC
UK / 2009
Producer: Tom Sheahan
Director: Andy Francis
Footage Archive Researcher: Victoria Stable
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
ITN Source
British Movietonews
Scottish Screen Archive
STV
Three 60 minute documentaries for BBC Four combining archive footage and compelling eye-witness accounts, to tell the extraordinary and dramatic narrative of North Sea oil and gas from the 1960s to the present day. The series charts the glorious decades when the country made the most of its North Sea windfall - with scarcely a thought about where it came from, or of the men and women who brought it to us. Through the story of oil the series offers a fresh perspective on British politics and society and a timely insight into the state of our economy today.
The stunning archive footage told the story of the oilmen at work in the North Sea, imaginatively combining newsreel and contemporary music. The footage came from a wide variety of less obvious sources to create a vivid sense of the social and political context of the times. We were also able to find several compelling interviewees who actually appeared in the archive footage themselves which added immediacy to an already gripping and dramatic narrative.
Dear Elena Francis (Querida Dona Elena)
Televisio de Catalunya
Spain / 2009
Producer: Roser Costa
Director: Josep Rovira
Footage Archive Researcher: Montse Bailac
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
NO-DO (Noticiario Documental)
Filmoteca de Catalunya
Carles Barba (amateur filmmaker)
Joan Gabriel Tharrats (amateur filmmaker)
Carles Puig (amateur filmmaker)
About three years ago, the City Council of a town near Barcelona sent in a sanitation crew to clear out the rooms of an old building that it had just bought. While removing the thick layer of dust accumulated over years of neglect, they unearthed a treasure of unimaginable value: a collection of thousands of old letters, carefully packed away for storage. Their surprise turned into amazement when they realized that stored and forgotten in that old garret was the correspondence of the famous radio advice show hosted by Elena Francis during the toughest years of Franco’s iron-fisted dictatorship.
One of the peculiarities of preparing this program was that there was only one audiovisual footage source in Spain at the time the Elena Francis program started broadcasting and that was the NODO, known for giving only the official view of what was happening in the country instead of the harsh reality. Illustrating many of the topics discussed in the letters was not an easy task: sexual education, male chauvinism, battered women and children, young people’s social lives, etc. We researched the audiovisual files of many amateur filmmakers of the time, who provided uncensored portraits of daily and family life.
Deep Wreck Mysteries
Mallinson Sadler Productions, Northern Sky Entertainment and Deep Sea Productions for UTV
UK /
2009
Producer: Crispin Sadler & Wayne Abbott
Director: Crispin Sadler
Footage Archive Researcher: William Moult
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Imperial War Museum
Chronosmedia
National Records & Archives Administration
Ian Lawler Collection
Death of a Battleship follows the deep sea divers to the bottom of the coast of Ireland to reveal how the ‘unsinkable’ First World War British battleship, HMS Audacious, one of the most powerful ships of her time was laid low by a single unexpected blow, a chance event that began a new chapter in naval warfare and changed the course of history. For ninety years she has lain unknown and undisturbed until now.
Crispin Sadler of Mallinson Sadler Productions, who is producing the series for UTV said: “Deep Wreck Mysteries offers UTV viewers a fantastic insight into the historical ship wrecks that lie just off the shores of Ireland. Both wrecks are filmed in remarkable visibility and are fascinating time capsules from a truly historic period of our recent past. The sinking of both the HMS Curacoa and HMS Audacious are tragic tales of human error during both World Wars.”
Discoveries of a Marionette
Piraya Film
Norway / 2009
Producer: Torstein Grude
Director: Bjarte Mørner Tveit
Footage Archive Researcher: Bjarte Mørner Tveit
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Alf Mørner
There has always been a distance between director Bjarte Mørner Tveit and his grandfather, the strong patriarch Alf Mørner. However, the gap between the generations is perhaps about to close when old Alf presents a strange gift to Bjarte; countless metal cans containing 8mm film from Alf’s life and his journeys around the world. The films open a hidden universe of grandfather’s past to Bjarte, and while looking at the films he discovers stories that had remained hidden for up to seventy years. But strings were attached to the seemingly generous gift and Bjarte soon has to embark on a demanding voyage of his own.
This film makes use of exceptional archive material
Einsatzgruppen - The Death Brigades
Kuiv Productions
France /
2009
Producer: Michel Rotman
Director: Michaël Prazan
Footage Archive Researcher:
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
TBA
In June 1941, the German army invades the USSR. Following behind are the Einsatzgruppen, 3000 men grouped into four “intervention groups” each given a designated geographical region, sent to exterminate Jews and enemies of the Reich. Who were these men who organised and carried out the mass assassination of Jews, Gypsies and Soviet prisoners?
Using testimonies gathered from the Baltic countries, the Ukraine, Germany, but also from Israel and the United-States, the victims, rare survivors and their executioners reveal the terrible and little known reality of this extermination by firing squad. Previously unseen archive footage, the scenes of these crimes, testimonies and interviews of world renowned international experts describe the horror that, over the course of a four year period, established its reign in central Europe.
Everything on Film (POPETH AR FFILM)
CWMNI DA
UK / WALES / 2009
Producer IFOR AP GLYN
Director: IAN ROWLANDS
Footage Archive Researcher:
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
NATIONAL SCREEN AND SOUND ARCHIVE OF WALES
This week Ifor ap Glyn goes to Senghenydd to show another pearl from the archives, ‘Senghenydd: Portrait of a Mining Town’. Jim Clarke’s 1964 classic includes rare footage of the 1913 disaster and asks how deep a scar this left on the mining community. In the new film Helen Price traces the history of her grandmother’s brother who was killed in the 1913 disaster. She also contemplates how the re-establishing of the Welsh language has changed the lives of her and her family, and how it could bring color back to the valley.
In 1964 Jim Clark used archive of the 1913 mining disaster at Senghenydd as the staring point for his contemporary documentary of life in the mining village. ‘Popeth ar Ffilm’ (‘Everything on Film’) traces the making of a modern homage to his work, taking both previous films as it’s inspiration/ Local girl Helen Price goes in search of one of her forebears who was killed in the original disaster. Nearly a century later, how does Senghenydd define itself today.
Fighting Passions
Blakeway Productions
UK /
2009
Producer: Adam Jessel
Director: Deborah Lee
Footage Archive Researcher: Lisa Clayton-Jones
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
SEAN LANGAN
BDFL
Crown Copyright
British Movietonews Ltd
Imperial War Museum
For us, it’s a crime. For them, it’s a job. For all the divisions between civilians and soldiers, there is one defining line – the act of killing. And soldiers who’ve done it, famously don’t talk about it. But in this remarkable film five former British infantrymen recall the reality of combat in compelling and candid detail. Through powerful personal testimonies, ‘Fighting Passions’ traces the journeys of these men from young recruits through training and frontline combat, to where killing has left them today.
Fighting Passions relies on archive from a wide range of sources to illustrate a side of war that is rarely discussed. The documentary draws on material, historic and contemporary, tenaciously obtained from a range of institutions and individuals including an embedded journalist in Afghanistan, British snipers own footage from Iraq and the Ministry of Defence. However, the film’s main achievement was to take footage that might have seemed familiar and generic and use it in such a way as to tell rarely heard and very personal stories to powerful and emotional effect.
Forever Plastic
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canada / 2009
Producer: Lisa Ellenwood
Director: F.M. Morrison
Footage Archive Researcher: Darren Yearsley
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Rick Prelinger Archives
Shields Pictures, Inc.
It seems so modern, it's hard to believe it's been around for 100 years! The early days of plastics were explosive: the first synthetic billiard balls blew up on impact! Over the years plastics have quietly permeated all parts of our lives. But what do we do with something that doesn't go away when we throw it way? Our oceans and dumps are filling up with the stuff, and yet inventive ideas for single use plastics just keep rolling out. How do we live more responsibly with plastic? Forever Plastic looks at our struggle.
Forever Plastic shows us the archive of the ordinary - things we take for granted in our modern life, and presents them to us in a new and revealing way.
Franco and Fidel: An inconvenient Friendship
Televisio de Catalunya
Spain / 2009
Producer: Muntsa Tarres
Director: Santi Torres & Ramon Valles
Footage Archive Researcher: Montse Bailac
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
NO-DO (Noticiario Documental)
ICAIC (TV of Cuba)
Library of Congress
NARA
ITN
The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was a rabid anti-Communist and a staunch ally of the United States. But that did not keep him from forging a friendship with a Communist nation that was America’s sworn enemy: Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
The archive material we found on Cuba made our audiovisual research all the more rewarding. Because of Spain’s sympathy towards Cuba, the Spanish media covered all newsworthy events there. The contrasting position of the United States, which had Cuba firmly in its sights, was reflected through U.S. archive material. In Spain, Cuban refugees contributed to portraying the Cuban revolution as romantic and idealistic. Our research in Cuba’s footage archives revealed unreleased scenes of, for example, La Pasionaria on a visit to Cuba, and our major find: footage of the diplomatic confrontation between Fidel Castro and the Spanish Ambassador to Cuba.
German Autumn'46
AMIP
France / 2009
Producer: Carniaux Xavier
Director: Michael Gaumnitz
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Sonja Heizmann & Marthe Laurent
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Stig Dagerman
GERMAN FALL ’46 SYNOPSIS Autumn, 1946. Germany is devastated. A young Swedish journalist named Stig Dagerman is hired to do a series of reports for the newspaper Expressen. For three months, he wanders through German cities which have been annihilated by the bombings, carefully observes the daily routines of a vanquished people, uncovers the “masquerade” of denazification trials. Hunger and cold, doubts and bitterness, the pain, the helplessness of youth, black market and various scams, cowardice and hate, violence and insanity are all inscribed in the German daily reality. Stig Dagerman’s point of view on this Germany is original and devoid of cliché. It is at once a critical and empathetic eye trained on the defeated people. Unlike most of the journalists of the time, who were obsessed with the Germans’ guilt, Dagerman rises above the prevailing winds. He goes to where the people are, watches them, and meditates about the reality of what is as much a psychic destruction as a material one. His eyes are wide open to the suffering of Germans struck dumb, their inability to confront the monstrosity of Nazism and he exposes the cynicism of the victors in the days following the air raids.
We wish to submit our film German Fall 46 by Michael Gaumnitz to the Focal festival. The films describes the journey of a swedish journalist who became a well-known writer, Stig Gagerman, through a devasted Germany. The film is entirely made of archives of Germany in 1946, drawings by the director and a small part of animation.
Happy Birthday OU - Forty Years of the Open University
BBC
UK / 2009
Producer: David Symonds
Director: David Symonds
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Ed Barlow & Steve Morris
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
BBC
The Open University
Lenny Henry tells the story of this great British educational institution where the lecture hall was brought into students' living rooms. Drawing on an archive of thousands of tv programmes, the documentary traces the OU's evolution from a radical experiment in higher education to Europe's largest university. It meets the academics and broadcasters who helped shape the OU and hears stories of the students, Lenny among them, whose lives were changed by it. This portrait of the OU features extracts from those programmes, some unseen for decades, as well as the debut performances of a number of Britain's best loved broadcastersand performers.
The Open University's course-related programmes on BBC2 were ended in 2006 after the BBC production centre at Milton Keynes was wound up and the University redirected its resources into co-productions such as "Coast". While OU students can still access some of these programmes on DVD or via the internet. it's unlikely they'll ever see the light of day again on British Television. This documentary represents a last chance to see ... to remind viewers of the unique space the OU programmes occupied in the broadcasting landscape and how, over 4 decades, they tracked the changes in higher education and in British Society.
HOP SKIP AND JUMP:THE STORY OF CHILDREN'S PLAY
TESTIMONY FILMS
UK / 2009
Producer: STEVE HUMPHRIES
Director: STEVE HUMPHRIES
Footage Archive Researcher(s): HAZEL FEARNLEY & PETER VANCE
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
BFI NATIONAL ARCHIVE
BRITISH MOVIETONE NEWS
ITN SOURCE/BRITISH PATHE
SCOTTISH SCREEN ARCHIVE
STAFFORDSHIRE FILM ARCHIVE
This is the story of a secret world of children’s adventure and imagination that blossomed, often unseen, in 20th century Britain. We explore the rich heritage of children’s play in Britain, re-lived through evocative archive film and the vivid memories of a cast of extraordinary characters. In this first programme we explore the rich heritage of children’s outdoor games that flourished in the nation’s playgrounds, streets and fields between the 1900s and the 1950s. Great fun was to be had from simple games like hopscotch, skipping and street football. There were high days and holidays too like St. Valentine’s Day and Bonfire Night, with gifts for poor children and ritual fights between rival gangs. The games that children played are illustrated with rarely seen archive drawn from archives all over Britain. Living memory is seamlessly combined with this archive to create a narrative of great emotional power- touching, humorous and evocative of a lost age.
The rise and fall of outdoor play in Britain is an important yet neglected subject. By charting the rich diversity of play in the past- using archive footage and living memory- this two parter provides a unique document of a world that has been lost. Skillfully edited and carefully researched over a period of two years, these films provide a powerful reminder of the simple joys enjoyed by the older generations in Britain. They had fewer material possessions but they benefitted from something much more valuable: a rich heritage of independent outdoor play.
In the Name of Islam (Au nom de l'Islam)
Ina
France / 2009
Producer: Gérald Collas
Director: Antonio Wagner
Footage Archive Researcher:
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: TBA
La première de ces deux émissions prend comme point de départ le sentiment d’humiliation ressenti par le monde musulman au sortir de la colonisation par les grandes puissances européennes. Un sentiment d’autant plus vif qu’avant d’avoir été dominée la civilisation musulmane a été dominante et a connu un âge d’or particulièrement brillant. La disparition du califat, le démembrement de l’empire ottoman après la première guerre mondiale, le désenchantement aux lendemains des indépendances, les échecs répétés du nationalisme arabe ont donné naissance à un ressentiment à partir duquel a pu se développer un courant politique né dans l’entre-deux guerres : l’islamisme politique. Bénéficiant de la mansuétude de nombre de régimes arabes et pendant longtemps du soutien des puissances occidentales plus soucieuses de contrer l’expansion soviétique, l’islamisme va rapidement devenir la principale force politique incarnant la fierté et la révolte des masses arabe
Iran & The West
Brook Lapping Productions
UK / 2009
Producer: Norma Percy
Director: Dai Richards
Footage Archive Researcher: Declan Smith & Val Evans
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
AP Archive
Hopscotch Films
Jimmy Carter Library
TSR
ZDF
In Programme One (of three), key Oval Office figures describe one of the most humiliating moments in US history and the right archive brings these moments to life. President Jimmy Carter has never before spoken publicly of the awful hours after he had paid for the release of the Tehran hostages. Vice President Walter Mondale and Carter’s Iran liaison, Gary Sick, help Carter twist the knife in his presidential memory. After defeat in the election, Carter’s term is ending, but Tehran won’t release the hostages until he’s out of the White House. This is both high drama and great history.
Programme 1 contains interviews with the Ayatollah Khomeini’s inner circle during his takeover of Iran and creation of the Islamic state, and with President Jimmy Carter and those closest to him as Khomeini's Iran humiliated Washington. Archive brings these interviews to life. Footage shot in the plane that flew Khomeini back to Tehran gives the danger of the hours before the coup realism and tension. Footage in the Oval Office turns Carter's description of his desperate efforts to get the US embassy hostages released into living drama. The choice and use of archive lifts television above academic study.
Iran: the Hundred-Year War
Artline Films
France / 2009
Producer: Olivier Mille
Director: Jean-Michel Vecchiet
Footage Archive Researcher: Edwige Laforêt
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
NARA
Gaumont Pathé Archives
INA
ITN Source
BBC Worldwide
For the first time ever, this film will look back over 100 years of Iranian history to the veritable wellsprings of the confrontation between Iran and the western powers. From 1908 to 2008, from the discovery of oil reserves to the nuclear crisis, we present a spectacular voyage to the heart of a country and a people, a colorful fresco focusing on real-life stories, unveiling archive images and authentic documents, and giving eyewitnesses - Iranian men and women - a chance to speak. A crisscrossing gaze, free of both prejudice and compromise: how they see us, how we see them.
Iranian authorities have issued for this production an exceptional authorization to film in Iran. Interviews with prominent personalities - such as former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, politicians Zbigniew Brzezinski, Hubert Védrine... - have been recorded. Access has been granted to Iranian national audiovisual archives. Rare footage has also been collected in various sources across Europe, Russia and the United States.
Japan, the Emperor and the Army
KAMI Productions
France / 2009
Producer: Christine Watanabe
Director: Kenichi Watanabe
Footage Archive Researcher(s):
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: TBA
Japan is going through a period of self-doubt, questioning its own position in the post-Cold War international political current. Taken together, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the liberalization of the Chinese market, the unification of Europe and globalization have all lead Japanese politicians to debate their “international contribution” in order to claim a place for Japan on the international scene. At the same time, the Americans, in their role as “the world’s police force” are asking Japan not only for money but for manpower, as recently in the Iraq war. The film leads us to the core of the ever deepening contradiction between institutions and reality, and analyzes the deeper motivations of the neonationalists who, at the very heart of power, are calling for “the right to wage war”. Extensive archive footage and photographs will reenact key historical turning points, revealing the extent of country’s metamorphoses. How will the post-war era end? The answers lie in the Japanese people’s attitude towards Article 9: delete it or take a careful look at History in order to give it its fullest meaning. Today, Japan is about to turn a page of its History.
This documentary shows very interesting footage like the figure of Japanese writer Mishima just before dying by seppuku. There are also never before seen footage of the emperor of Japan.
JFK - 3 SHOTS THAT CHANGED AMERICA
New Animal Productions
USA / 2009
Executive Producers: Nicole Rittenmeyer & Seth Skundrick
Producers: Hugo Soskin, Katerina Simic & Elizabeth Tyson
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Hugo Soskin & Elizabeth Tyson
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
The Sixth Floor Museum At Dealey Plaza
BBC Motion Gallery
NBC News Archives
WPA Film Library
Historic Films
JFK 3 Shots That Changed America is a two-part film that uses unique, rarely seen and heard footage to document the Kennedy assassination and nearly 50 years of speculation following this murder. The archive comes from a range of sources including eyewitness home movies, police radio dispatch, and raw news footage. Part 1 is a shocking, unflinching look at the assassination of the President and the days that followed. Part 2 examines the aftermath of the assassination, and the enduring controversies that emerged as succeeding generations struggled to comprehend the sudden murder of an unforgettable leader.
It was our goal to tell the all-too-familiar story of the JFK assassination in a way never before seen by audiences. Our documentary is 100% archive, an intricate tapestry of images and sounds woven together to create an experiential and evocative story that renders the familiar new and fully engaging. It is our hope that the presentation of archive transports viewers and immerses them in a chaotic and terrifying moment that changed the world. Without a narrator, we place the awesome burden of storytelling squarely on the archive, trusting and honoring the power of these images to tell the story.
Meet The British
BBC
UK / 2009
Producer: Jeff Simpson
Director
Footage Archive Researcher: Rory Sheehan
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: COI Collection at BFI National Archive
For decades the British taxpayer paid for thousands of hours of films which were made to promote Britain to foreign countries. They started as a way of linking the Commonwealth together, but evolved into more promotional films presenting Britain as a thrusting, go-getting country of the future. Looking at them now, they're sometimes ironic ('Asbestos is the future'), sometimes comical ('caravan race trials') and sometimes plain bizarre ('paint on central heating'). For the first time, these films are shown to the country that inspired them. Wall-to-wall exclusive archive with no commentary.
It was decided early on that the programme should feature no other voice but the archive's own. This decision made it crucial that the archive should "read" in its own right. From the mountains of films on offer the production team gathered together an extraordinary number of really unique insights into the British psyche. At 60 minutes, this was quite an ambitious approach but the power of the footage and the clever way the programme was constructed made it a spell-binding watch.
Miracle of the Hudson Plane Crash
Darlow Smithson Productions
UK / 2009
Producer: Charlotte Surtees
Director: Marc Tiley
Footage Archive Researcher: Beatrice Read
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
AP Archive
CNN Image Source
Con Edison
Daniel Levin
NBC News Archive
Brief Synopsis in English (up to 100 words): On Thursday 15 January 2009, 155 people on board US Airways flight 1549 met potential disaster in the sky over New York City. Yet somehow Captain ‘Sully’ Sullenberger executed a textbook ditching in the Hudson river and saved the lives of everybody on board. Miracle of the Hudson Plane Crash tells the minute by minute story that day through compelling first hand testimonies and professional, amateur & CCTV archive, some previously unseen.
Reason for submission in English (up to 150 words): With only 4 weeks until TX the challenge was on: to find & license as much coverage of the dramatic Hudson plane landing from less than a week ago. Under the demanding time constraints we gained access to CCTV footage of the ditching, 911 calls, Air Traffic Control recordings, mobile phone pictures, NYPD rescue footage and exclusive, previously unseen HD footage of the rescue mission filmed from the 17th floor of a nearby office building. An incident where Twitter users broke the news 15 minutes before the mainstream media; this was an important exercise in gathering User Generated Content and not only relying on the traditional archive sources.
Monsieur Advertising MARCEL BLEUSTEIN-BLANCHET
Artline Films
France / 2009
Producer / Director: Olivier Mille
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Caroline Petit, Edwige Laforet
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Publicis, INA, Pathe-Gaumont, Maison de la Pub, Atelier des Archives
The saga of a company that was propelled through the 20th century by the willpower and the ambition of its founder. Born in 1906 in a Parisian suburb, self-taught, Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet created Publicis, inventing a trade and becoming the pioneer of an economic world in which advertising will take a central and strategic place. The story of Publicis is the tale of its era: the Twenties, the war, the baby boom, consumer society, the Sixties, the internationalization of markets...
Mountbatten: Return to Mullaghmore
Below The Radar TV
UK/Ireland / 2009
Producer: Michael Fanning
Director: Trevor Trevor Birney
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Fran Rowlatt-McCormick
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
RTE
BBC
Movietone
Imperial War Museum
A documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the murder of the Queen's cousin, Lord Mountbatten, by the IRA in 1979.
Combining new interviews with the immediate news reports of the attack, the film poignantly marked the anniversary of the death of the only member of the Royal family to be killed in 'The Troubles.'
Mud Sweat and Tractors
Available Light Productions
UK / 2009
Producer: David Parker
Director: David Parker
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Jonathan Alderson & Leah Arnold
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: The film archives of individual farmers
Mud Sweat and Tractors told the story of the 20th century revolution in farming in the UK through the home movies of those who were at the centre of the revolution, farmers themselves. The films focused on the our corner stones of UK agriculture, milk, wheat, meat and fruit and veg. The result was not merely a series that dealt with a picture of our past but an analysis of how we got from the past to the present, told by the people who led the changes. It was critically received, reviewed and reviewed extensively and reached good audiences on both BBC Four and BBC Two.
We are submitting the series because we think home movies are a neglected but immensely valuable source for the understanding of the 20th century. That century was the century of film, and some of those using 8 and 16mm film to chronicle their lives offer us a new way of looking at the past.
Murder File Hrant Dink
Filmpool
Germany / 2009
Producer: GiselaMarx
Director: Osman Okkan
Footage Archive Researcher(s):
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
International Hrant Dink Foundation, Istanbul
Genocide Museum, Erivan
Collection Orlando Carlos Calumeno, Istanbul
In January 2007, the Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was murdered in broad daylight in Istanbul. The editor-in-chief of the Armenian weekly newspaper AGOS had spent his whole life advocating minority rights, particularly the rights of Armenians and Kurds. In so doing he broached one of the Turkish Republic’s biggest taboo subjects. Osman Okkan and Simone Sitte’s haunting documentary sheds light on the events leading up to the murder, the difficult relationship between Armenians and Turks, and the ongoing trial that is throwing light on the murderous activities of Turkey’s “deep state”.
Murder File Hrant Dink is a powerful film - in both a personal and a political sense. It is a study of Hrant Dink as a human being. And it is a journey into the heart of Turkey. The WDR/ARTE production by Osman Okkan and Simone Sitte is also the chronicle of a death foretold. A 17-year old shot three bullets into Hrant Dink's head and neck from behind, but, as the film shows, the state also played an important role.
NAPOLI: CITY OF THE DAMNED
Tigerlily Films
UK / 2009
Producer: Nikki Parrott
Director: Ben Hopkins
Footage Archive Researcher: Joe Barker
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Imperial War Museum
ITN Source
BBC Motion Gallery
Getty Images
AP
A film about the Anglo-American occupation of Naples, Italy. This historical deconstruction of a military occupation portrays an amazing and turbulent era in history. During the period 1943-1948 the city of Naples packed more in than most cities manage in a century. Sleaze, sex, corruption, the Second World War, the Cold War, a communist uprising, the evacuation of the entire city, an outbreak of syphilis and typhoid, the first mission of the CIA and the rise of the Camorra, Naples’ very own Mafia.
The film uses archive material all accurately location specific to devastating effect. The use of archive in the film really brings the story to life.
OIL SPILL - THE EXXON VALDEZ DISASTER
SMOKING DOGS FILMS
UK / 2009
Producer: David Lawson & Lina Gopaul
Director: John Akomfrah
Footage Archive Researcher: David Lawson & Lina Gopaul
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Alaska State Archives
KTUU USA
ABC USA
CBS USA
BBC
Just after midnight, on Good Friday 1989, the giant supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound to create one of the biggest man-made ecological disasters of the 20th century. Eleven million gallons of crude oil gushed from the stricken tanker into the pristine waters of the Sound, killing whales, millions of fish and birds, and thousands of sea otters. The spill had a catastrophic effect on local communities, wiping out their herring fishery and severely depleting the Alaskan salmon industry for years to come. The skipper of the Exxon Valdez had been drinking but that was just the start of the calamity. The aftermath led to bitter disputes over the bungled clear-up and law suits on behalf of 32,000 local victims that lasted nearly twenty years, as Exxon fought the $5 billion damages awarded against them all the way to the US Supreme Court.
Using archive film footage in our films has been our main way of telling stories over the past 25 years. The Exxon Valdez disaster was a bitter lesson in the environmental history of the planet and we sought to find the most intimate as well as public material that would help drive the story as well us elucidate the unraveling of the events over those fateful days. We would like the film to add to the recognition of archive not just as wall paper but as a rich and textured layer of the story telling process.
On Tour With The Queen
Lion Television
UK / 2009
Producer: DavidUpshal
Director: Nic Young
Footage Archive Researcher: Jacqui Edwards
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
British Pathe
Movietone
Screen Australia
Archive New Zealand
New Zealand National Film Archive
In 1953, the newly-crowned 27 year-old Queen Elizabeth set off on a 6-month, 45,000 mile, round-the-world journey. The Coronation Tour was the most ambitious royal ever undertaken, and would change Britain’s relationship with the world forever. On the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth, actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah retraces the young Queen’s journey, travelling to 11 countries across five continents. Intercut with rarely seen archive footage, Kwame examines the enduring legacy of the tour in those colonies. He’ll also look at the re-branding of Britain from Empire to Commonwealth, discovering how it transformed the colonies - and Britain too.
Archive was an integral part of the series. Archive was used extensively and inventively to establish the detail of the Queen’s 1953 tour. And much of the contemporary material was shot to compliment the archive by capturing the same locations today from the same position and angle as the archive. The series also used archive in innovative and unusual ways, such as the presenter viewing material on his laptop while in transit and on location. The presenter frequently played archive footage for contributors who featured in the material – many of whom had never seen this material before.
Outbreak
ITV Studios
UK / 2009
Producer: Matt Cain
Director: Martina Hall
Footage Archive Researcher: Peter Scott
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
ITN Source / British Pathe
IWM
Royal Mail Film Archive
North West Film Archive
British Movietonews
Outbreak is an epic and internationally co-produced film which documents the day that WWII broke out across the world. Using solely eyewitness testimony and substantial archive footage, it tells the story of what happened – hour by hour – on one day that would change the world forever, bringing together the memories of ordinary wives, husbands, mothers and fathers as well as major players on political, diplomatic and military fronts. The film’s transmission on ITV1 and History in the UK and France 3 in France was accompanied by a book published by Virgin and a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.
Great lengths were taken to source footage from archives around the world inc Australia, France, Germany, USA and the UK. It was important to find strong archive footage to bring to life the extraordinary drama surrounding the outbreak of World War II and to illustrate the memories of our distinguished interviewees.
PROFESSOR OEHMICHEN'S MAGNIFICENT FLYING MACHINES
SOMBRERO & CO
FRANCE / 2009
Producer: Valérie ABITA
Director: Stéphane BEGOIN
Footage Archive Researcher: Valérie COMBARD
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
GAUMONT PATHE
OEHMICHEN'S FAMILY
ATELIER DES ARCHIVES
LOBSTER
CERIMES
In the early 1920s in Europe, 2 determined inventors competed for success in the race to build the 1st working helicopter: Pescara of Spain, and the Frenchman, Oehmichen. The greatest accolade went to the Frenchman when his craft succeeded in flying 1 km in a closed-circuit in 1924. Today, scientists are developing micro-drones and nano-drones but they have the same problems encountered by Oehmichen. Following his lead, they are looking to insects such as the dragonfly to help them understand animal flight. Will their work finally consecrate the genius of Oehmichen?
With this documentary film, you will watch extremely rare images of the first helicopter flight in 1924. Those images were donated from Oehmichen's family, and are filled with emotions.
Projekt Huemul: The Fourth Reich in Argentina
Cinema 7 Films
Argentina /
2009
Producer: Dalila Zaritzky
Director: Rodrigo H.Vila
Footage Archive Researcher: Dalila Zaritzky & Claudia Perel
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Footage Farm
Thought Equity
Archivo General de la Nación Argentina
NARA
Internet Archive
“Projekt Huemul” was an atomic secret project developed by former president Gral. Perón in the research of an atomic bomb with the collaboration of German scientists. The project began in 1946, only months after Hiroshima. Let us imagine for an instant that Argentina, might have been able to make the most important scientific discovery in human history. Let us imagine as well that this discovery might have made it possible for this country to have become the leading nation in the world and that this could have paved the way for the Fourth Reich to be established in the said country. And that the U.S.A. might have been planning to invade Argentine territory to prevent all this from happening In 1951, President Peron announced to the world that his administration has carried out atomic energy in a, at the time, secret atomic plant. The Amazing discovery was published by the most important newspapers in Argentina and all over the world, like the “New York Post” and “The Time” from London. One year later of the success, the island was closed and the project cancelled. Even today the rests of the main reactor and laboratories stands abandoned in the island. Our documentary film is about the way in which Argentine military officers, were molded under the Prussian military tradition and how he helped and financed the immigration of German scientist, military men and war criminals, and how, during Peron's presidency, the most ambitious project was carried out. This was “Projekt Huemul”.
This film contains incredible footage, from different sources. The research of archive takes more than 4 years. The film has archive from 1900 to 1955 from Germany, USA, UK, Brazil and Argentina. The film lenght is 115 minutes wih 65% of footage. The archive was not used to simply illustrate the movie, it is the main core of the narrative of the film. It is a documentary with a thriller structure. The suspense is hold by the footage. Mixed with re-enactments the most value thing of the film is the footage is useful for the narrative.
Saving Britain's Past
BBC Productions for The Open University
UK /
2009
Producer: Mary Sackville-West
Director: Helen Nixon
Footage Archive Researcher: Declan Smith & Nico Wasserman
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
BBC Motion Gallery
RIBA
Getty
BFI/COI
Yorkshire Film Archive
The Park Hill flats were among the most pioneering public housing projects of Fifties Britain. They epitomised a spirit of idealism, optimism that infused the post-war decade as architects rebuilt the country in a new style, creating a utopia for the first tenants of Park Hill. Famous design elements like the streets in the sky became internationally recognisable. The estate's fortunes fluctuated throughout the decades and in the nineties it was listed by English Heritage as one of the most architecturally significant post-war housing estates in the country. Its extraordinary history's charted through archive, the residents, designers and planners involved.
Saving Britain's Past is a seven-part series which, decade by decade, takes us on a chronological and geographical journey around Britain. Chronicling the stories of the British men and women who have campaigned and protested to protect and preserve their heritage, the series extensively uses film archives to underscore the historic dimension to each debate to bring the social context visually alive. With contributions from surviving eye-witnesses, planners and campaigners, Tom Dyckhoff (architecture critic for The Times) steers a balanced course through the heritage minefield, covering this emotive subject, the factional debates, commercial pressures and the Utopian aspirations of modernisers.
Shanghai, the Roaring Years
IDEALE AUDIENCE
France / 2009
Producer: Françoise Gazio
Director: Olivier Horn
Footage Archive Researcher: Valérie LOTH & Henri EHRLICH
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Archives nationales, Paris
Gaumont Pathé Archives
Atelier des Archives
Collection Lobster Films
Shanghai Media Group
Shanghai in the 20s and the 30s: money rules in this city open to all adventures and whose reputation attracts all the bold adventurers of the world. The opium trade is under the control of the Chinese triads, who run their operations from the foreign concessions . Du Yuesheng, the Godfather of the Green Gang rules the city. Albert Londres, one of the most famous journalist of the time, who is in Shanghai in 1924 reports to his newspaper. In 1932, at the time when the power acquired by the triads became a threat to Westerners, the city is plunged into an armed conflict triggered by Japan, served as a curtain raiser for a new dispensation. Back in Shanghai to report on the ongoing upheavals, Albert Londres covers the conflict. His explosive investigation went up in smoke in the fire on the ocean liner bringing him back to France. Following the lashing rise of Du Yuesheng in Shanghai, we embark on an exploration of the period when bankers and drug traffickers, inviting comparisons with prohibition Chicago, revolutionaries and nationalists made history – a period when the new ideas that would give birth to modern China were just emerging.
Unpublished Chinese archive materials, private archives, old feature films, period newspapers, police reports, diplomatic correspondence, journalism by Albert Londres and explorations of present-day Shanghai, sketch the portrait a world that continues to fascinate the West. The film is based upon a rigorous and relevant use of archive footage, some of them never released before.
SOLDIERS' STORIES: NORTHERN IRELAND
POV Production Company
UK / 2009
Producer: Emma Ford
Director: Mike Ford
Footage Archive Researcher: Robert Lamrock & Pauline Russell
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
UTV Archive Library
ITN Source
POV Archive Library
Soldiers' Stories provides a new and unique insight into the conflict in Northern Ireland. British soldiers have never before given such personal interviews and they reveal stories of bombings, humour in the face of adversity, of strong comradeship and of heartache, from their own personal perspective. In the four decades that British troops were stationed in Northern Ireland they were subjected to bombings and shootings on a daily basis. This was a brutal and terrifying time that scarred all who served there. Using first-hand accounts and brought vividly to life with dramatic archive footage, some of it never shown before, this powerful documentary paints an unforgettable and very personal picture of the lives of the British soldiers during their forty year deployment in Northern Ireland.
The use of archive footage in Soldiers' Stories was absolutely central to the power of the documentary and its impact was commented on during a private screening for a select group of MPs at Westminster. Looking at the footage it is hard to believe that this violent conflict took place not in some far-flung corner of the world, but in our own backyard, in a part of the UK. The vivid and often horrific images we found, particularly in the UTV Archive, were essential in bringing to life the full horror of the soldiers' memories and experiences. In contrast we found some very moving and poignant archive which showed the soldiers interacting with local children and trying to build bridges amongst the general mayhem. We believe that the archive images provide the perfect marriage between the soldiers' stories and the brutal reality of life on the streets of Northern Ireland, a visual history of a largely forgotten and overlooked conflict.
The Berlin Wall (WAL BERLIN)
CWMNI DA
UK / WALES / 2009
Producer: IFOR AP GLYN
Director: IFOR AP GLYN
Footage Archive Researcher(s):
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
AP ARCHIVE
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
BBC CYMRU WALES
ITV WALES
On 9th November, 2009, it will be twenty years since that night when the Berlin wall started to crumble. Presenter Ifor ap Glyn guides us along the remains of the wall and shares the experiences of those who have lived in its shadow for the 28 years it was in existence as well as those from Wales who witnessed its fall. But do the residents of the city now live as one? Or do the old divisions still exist?
How Berlin became the cockpit for two conflicting ideologies. Presenter Ifor ap Glyn takes us back to 1945 to the division of the city that prefigured the wall’s erection in 1961. We meet Berliners who lived with the wall and Welshmen who witnessed its fall, before looking at the wall’s legacy during the 20 years since 1989. Archive is vital to the narrative with AP, the Imperial War museum, BBC, ITV Wales amongst the main sources.
The Children Who Fought Hitler
Testimony Films
UK / 2009
Producer: Steve Humphries
Director: Nick Maddocks
Footage Archive Researcher: Nick Maddocks & Lizi Cosslett
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
IWM
ITN Source
Images of War
Canal+
Footage Farm
The incredible story of how a small group of British children became entangled in extraordinary events during World War Two. The children grew up in a unique community; pupils at the British Memorial School in Ypres, Belgium - the sons and daughters of the Great War veterans who returned to Flanders after the First World War, to build and maintain the War Graves. When the Second World War broke out many Memorial School took up arms against the enemy. Seventy years later, three old school friends reveal for the first time the remarkable story of how they fought back.
This is a wartime adventure story told almost exclusively through the creative use of archive film. Rare home movies, period newsreels and contemporary feature films are skilfully interwoven with extraordinary testimony to produce a dramatic, engaging, and moving film. The match up between personal stories and archive is remarkable, and only achievable through painstaking film research. The archive enriches the narrative at every turn, and the inclusion of feature film dialogue further brings the interviews to life. In this film, testimony and archive combine perfectly to create a compelling and humbling tribute to the children of the British Memorial School.
The City Uncovered with Evan Davis
BBC
UK / 2009
Producer: John Blystone
Director: John Blystone
Footage Archive Researcher: Kate Redman
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
BBC
BBC Motion Gallery
Getty Images
London Stock Exchange
Footage Farm
Evan Davis looks at the roots of the current crisis: the bubble in property prices and the effect they had on the global financial markets and the people operating within them. Prices went crazy - and so did the rest of us. The markets lie at the heart of the capitalist system. Every second of every day they set prices that determine how much we pay for our food, and the cost of a foreign holiday. But what are they? Who's running them? And why do the prices run wild so often?
In the last film in the series, Evan tackled price discovery. In order to bring alive an abstruse visual essay hastily assembled from meetings with economists, the archive needed to be rich, diverse and surprising. Kate Redman, taking over mid-production, mined every conceivable source from well known broadcasters to private collections. She helped facilitate an innovative final programme that in archive terms appeared at times to span several genres: from natural history, through retrospective history to the most contemporary current-affairs. The final result received glowing reviews, a high audience, and was nominated for a Monte Carlo Golden Nymph.
The Gangster and the Pervert Peer
Blakeway Productions
UK / 2009
Producer: Richard Bond
Director: Richard Bond
Footage Archive Researcher: Lisa Clayton-Jones
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
ITN Source
BBC
Clips and Footage
Getty
Mirrorpix
‘Ronnie Kray and the Pervert Peer’ is a unique and original showcase for archive filmmaking. Unusual footage from a wide variety of sources evokes the heady atmosphere in swinging London during the rise and fall of the Kray twins. The archive sequences feel fresh and modern due to the range of digital techniques employed, as freeze frames, crash zooms and slow motion are combined with expressive music and bold editing. The film also features many images from private collections, sourced through painstaking research, treated with an entirely original rostrum move, and seamlessly interwoven with cutting edge animation.
The Human Zoo - Science's Dirty (Ex Series: Secret Race: Science's Last Taboo)
Diverse Production
UK / 2009
Producer: Mark Roberts
Director: Srik Narayanan
Footage Archive Researcher: Joanna Marshall
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Clips & Footage
Gaumont Pathe (France)
BFI
Imperial War Museum
American Library of Congress
“Of course there can be no doubt that, on the whole, the white race has progressed beyond the black race” Only a hundred years ago, this was not the view of the racist fringe, but the opinion of the world’s leading scientists. “The average white man is stronger of limb, fleeter of foot, clearer of eye… than the average yellow or red or black” Scientists were so fascinated by race that living human beings were put on public displays in human zoos. Across the western world, millions flocked to these ‘exotic displays’. But this was no irrelevant side show. The science of race would inspire and feed the ideology of the Nazis, giving academic grounding to the 20th century’s greatest atrocity – the holocaust. This film tells the hidden story of the human zoos and reveals the plight of one of the living exhibits. Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy, was put on display for the entertainment and (racist) education of the West in the early 20th century. He was even put on display in the monkey house of the Bronx Zoo and described as the missing link. By understanding his story we can understand the secret history of how science tried to teach the world to be racist, and the huge human cost of this ideology.
‘Human Zoo – Science’s Dirty Secret’ is a provocative and thought provoking documentary which uses fascinating and disturbing footage to help tell the story of Ota Benga and the bizarre phenomenon of human zoos. Time Out wrote in their 'Pick of the Day - "Some of the archive footage is barely believable".
The Lost World of Communism
BBC
UK / 2009
Producer: Peter Molloy
Director: Peter Molloy
Footage Archive Researcher: Barry Purkis
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
La Camera Stylo
PROGRESS Film Berlin
Deutsche Rundfunkarchiv
BStU
Filmschmidt
This series reveals what life was like for ordinary people living under communism. What emerges is a picture that goes beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political repression to reveal an astonishingly rich tapestry of experience. The opening programme looks at East Germany where the communists claimed they were building 'a socialist paradise.'
Barry Purkis's film research on The Lost World of Communism genuinely broke new ground in tapping into previously unseen archival sources in Eastern European: home movies from East Germany, communist party archives from Czechoslovakia, the personal archives of former dissidents in Romania, previously censored material from communist show trials, prime time television shows approved by the party, the list is extensive and varied. And, indeed, this copious and multivalent use of archive shed new light on 'ordinary' life behind the Iron Curtain and lay at the heart of this successful series.
The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court
Skylight Pictures
USA / 2009
Producer: Pacode Onis
Director: Pamela Yates
Footage Archive Researcher: Sally Eberhardt & Lewanne Jones
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
BBC Motion Gallery
ITN Source
France Television Distribution
IRIN - UN News
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues arrest warrants for the rebel leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, puts 4 Congolese warlords on trial in The Hague, shakes up the Colombian criminal justice system, charges President Omar al Bashir of Sudan with genocide and war crimes in Darfur and challenges the UN Security Council to have him arrested. Will this tiny upstart court in The Hague tame the Wild West of international conflict zones and end the culture of impunity?
Documentation of the past through the special framing of archival material is a hallmark of Skylight Pictures productions. We strive to use archival images that are unfamiliar to audiences, and place them in a context that gives them proper historic meaning. We combed coverage of the Nuremburg tribunals and found images of one of our characters actually delivering an argument with synch sound and combined that image with a present day image of him. We also discovered many never before broadcast images of atrocities in the Congo, and these became both proof of horrific crimes and emotional anchors for the audience.
The Secret Life of the Airport
BBC - Factual London
UK / 2009
Producer: Gaby Hornsby
Director: Gaby Hornsby
Footage Archive Researcher: Miriam Walsh
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
North West Film Archive
Media Archive of Central England
ITN Source / Pathe / Granada / Reuters
British Movietone
British Film Institute
Following on from The Secret Life of the Motorway, The Secret Life of the Airport charts the history and hidden world of Britain’s airports, revealing how they have broadened our horizons, changed our culture and altered our geography. This first part navigates from the heady, imperial glamour of Britain's first airport terminal at Croydon, to the internationally-agreed hieroglyphics on today's taxiways and runways. Using rare archive and access to airports' hidden corners, it reveals the intense local rivalry, skulduggery and sheer passion for flight behind our airports and their transformation from muddy fields into 24 hour city states.
Throughout the series we were particularly interested in exploring how the history of airports continues to shape our contemporary experience of them. We wanted to visualise this throughout the film by intercutting the archive with specially shot footage and finding the resonance between them. We think we successfully achieved this, with the series enjoying both critical acclaim and popular success.
The Secret life of the Berlin Wall
Diverse Production
UK / 2009
Producer: Kevin Sim
Director: Kevin Sim
Footage Archive Researcher: Philippa Lacey
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
NARA
Progress Film Verlich GmbH
Footage Farm
Kaleidoscope
BSTU/ITN/CBS etc
The Secret Life of the Berlin Wall (BBC 2) is a kaleidoscopic, multi-layered film telling the stories of six or seven extraordinary people from Communist East Germany from the Stunde Nulle (Zero Hour) of 1945 to the Fall of the Wall in 1989. As history, it is idiosyncratic: it starts – and ends – with a circus. Yet it paints an intense and moving portrait of a land where beneath the patina of normal life, there was a shadow world of double-speak, betrayal and nightmare.
You could call it a gamble or an act of faith. We knew from the start that the film would live or die by the quality of the archive. Could anything fresh and new be found in such over-worked territory? Would we be able to support the biographies of our oddball cast of spies, informers, radicals, poets, prisoners and even clowns and animal trainers? Could we re-create using archive materials alone the Berlin of the fifties, sixties, eighties? The answer to all these questions turned out to be a thumping yes. As someone said: Lions riding on the backs of zebras! How can you beat that?
The War (De Oorlog)
NPS
The Netherlands / 2009
Producer: Advan Liempt
Director: Godfried van Run
Footage Archive Researcher: Gerard Nijssen
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Polygoon
RVD
Chronos
Transit
NARA
THE WAR Ep. 1: Germany’s Revenge Germany invaded our country even by rail In the night of 9-10 May 1940 a Germany military train, loaded with staff, equipment and ammunition, went straight through the Dutch lines defence into North Brabant. It was not halted until 23 kilometres into enemy territory. So, the occupying forces came, among other means of transportation, by train. It is a surprising fact in the first episode of The War, the 9 episode NPS series that Rob Trip will be hosting starting Sunday night, 25 October, on Nederland 2. This first episode is called De Wraak van Duitsland (Germany’s Revenge), and addresses the period from the rise of the Nazis in Germany until the Dutch and French capitulations in May and June 1940. The German army train came as a surprise to the Dutch military commanders, but the real insiders had foreseen that the Dutch border at Brabant and Limburg was a weak spot in the defence of the Allies. Especially French military experts, who were very well aware of the situation in the Netherlands, thought the south-east border of the Netherlands was a sieve, but the Dutch government lacked the means and the willpower to take adequate measures. Hitler’s rise in Germany is also amply discussed. Striking in this respect are the newspaper reports by Handelsblad journalist George Nypels who, as early as 1923, extensively reported on the rhetoric skills of the ultra-right-wing German politician. Even then he was surprised at the effect of Hitler’s speeches on his audience. He called Hitler a ‘wizard with words and a mass psychologist of extraordinary quality’. The series The War shows some remarkable colour footage from the period of Hitler’s rise and extracts of one of his speeches never before shown in the Netherlands. In this episode host Rob Trip emphasizes that in the nineteen twenties and thirties a fierce battle for control was going on all over Europe, between the major systems: communism, fascism and parliamentary democracy. In many countries it could not be predicted how that battle would go. Hitler’s winning the sympathy of the masses in Germany had great impact. Rob Trip went to Germany to interview a woman who generously admitted that, as a school girl, she had fallen completely under the Führer’s spell. In Nurnberg, where she lived, the Nazis held their annual Party Days. She and her school friends would compete over who got to see Hitler most frequently in one week. Once Hitler had seized power and eliminated the opposition, he started his conquest of Europe, in which the Netherlands played only a minor role. The Nazis were mainly interested in France. Hitler was in a hurry and agreed to the bombing of Rotterdam, so that he would have to spend as little military capacity on the Netherlands as possible. The bombing of Rotterdam was actually a misunderstanding. The Germany commandant had already cancelled the order for the aircraft, as the Dutch capitulation was forthcoming. His message did not get through in time: the bombing, followed by the huge fires, turned into a tragedy. Rob Trip shows us the place where hundreds of unidentified Rotterdam citizens rest in a mass grave. Trip concludes the episode where it started: in Compiegne, France. In the same place where Germany had been forced to sign an armistice after World War I, Hitler got even in June 1940, forcing the French to surrender and tasting a moment of triumph and revenge.
A new series on World War 2, with new archival footage, sometimes in colour, is the reason why we would like to submit this series.
The Way We Worked
RTÉ
Ireland / 2009
Producer: Birthe Tonseth
Director: Birthe Tonseth
Footage Archive Researcher(s):
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: RTÉ Archives
Irish coal miners have for generations slaved deep underground in dangerous tunnels to eke out a living. Today the collieries lie abandoned, but the deadly legacy of the mines lives on. In the first episode of The Way We Worked we hear from the men who started work deep in the mines at the tender age of 14. Their stories are of backbreaking work, dangers and terrible accidents, but also camaraderie and the pride they had in their work. Seamus Walsh started working in Castlecomer Collieries, Co Kilkenny, when he was 13, and remembers when his 15-year-old friend Ned Kelly died. Peter McNiff grew up on a mountain farm near Arigna, Co Leitrim. When his father fell ill, the children had to work in the coal mine. Joe McEnery worked in the Ballingarry mine, Co Tipperary from he was 14 until it closed in 1973. Joe's lungs are now ravaged by the damage from the coal dust. Jimmy Lawlor from Killenaul, Co Tipperary, was deeply affected by his friend's death deep underground in a mine shaft.
Despite the recent Celtic Tiger boom years, the Irish are fascinated by their recent past. The working conditions and spirit of the workforce who toiled in the mines make for a fascinating story with a surprising store of footage.
The Week We Went To War
Finestripe Productions
UK / 2009
Producer: Ian Lilley
Director: Malcolm McKissock
Footage Archive Researcher: Valerie Hetherington & Nick Mottis
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
British Pathe
ITN Source/Reuters
British Movietonews
Science & Society Picture Library
From families who took in evacuees, to ordinary people who ran into bombed buildings to save their neighbours, BBC Daytime marks the 70th Anniversary of WWII with a week long event to honour the every day heroes who helped win the war back at home. Until now, many of the incredible stories of every day heroism that happened in communities back home in Britain have remained untold but The Week We Went To War seeks to uncover these remarkably little-known tales.
The use of powerful archive material and compelling eye-witness testimony within a popular magazine format has allowed The Week We Went To War to bring an important and thought-provoking subject Daytime audience.
The Windsors - Triumph and Tragedy (Die Windsors)
ZDF
Germany / 2009
Producer: Steffen Bayer
Director: Volker Schmidt-Sondermann
Footage Archive Researcher: Hanna Davies
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
ITN Source
Die Windsors - Triumph and Tragedy This three-part documentary tells the story of the most famous family in the world: the Windsors. It is a comprehensive chronic of the Royal Family, beginning with Queen Victoria and her husband Albert to the heirs to throne today. They all live very special lifes in rich and privileged circumstances, but they are still human beings. How can they cope with all the triumph and the tragedies belonging to their fate? And how are they influenced by the rules that come with the crown? Almost 200 years of history unfold in this extraordinary story.
ITN Source has brought to daylight the most precious scenes of their archive, including British Pathe, to enable the directors Ulrike Grunewald and Volker Schmidt-Sondermann to tell the story of the Royal Family. They managed to bring together historic film material, colourful re-constructions and the expertise of well-informed historians to an entertaining series of documentaries.
Tragedy 607-E (Tragóid 607-E)
Nemeton
Éire / 2009
Producer: Geraldine Heffernan
Director: Geraldine Heffernan
Footage Archive Researcher: Geraldine Heffernan
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: ITN Source
In 1958 a KLM plane fell from the sky, 90 miles from the Connemara coast. 99 people were killed and there were no survivors. This is the story of three people involved in the search and rescue.
Tsunami: Caught on Camera
Darlow Smithson Productions
UK / 2009
Producer: Alex Kiehl
Director: Janice Sutherland
Footage Archive Researcher: Jack Penman & Charlie Williams
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
40 Amateur sources
Metro TV
Library Media Solutions/ZDF Archive
AP Archive
ABC News Video
Amateur footage and survivor testimony tell the story of the biggest natural disaster of the modern day. Starting in Banda Aceh and moving up through Thailand and Sri Lanka, Tsunami: Caught on Camera tells the story of the 2004 Asian Tsunami in unflinching fashion. Amateur footage shows the destruction the tsunami caused while personal testimony tells the stories of those that survived and those that didn’t. This film is a brutal and honest account of just a few of the lives which were affected by a disaster which killed nearly 250,000 people.
With nearly fifty sources Tsunami: Caught on Camera contains the most substantial collection of Tsunami footage ever seen on TV. 90% of this programme is archive and 90% of the archive (over 40 sources) is amateur footage. Holidaymakers filmed the before, during and after of the tsunami so that became the mandate for a film that captured this. Painstaking detective work made this possible and days were spent tracking down videos in which the only clue was the nationality of the cameraman. Then relationships had to be developed in order to obtain sensitive and personal footage. This was crucial as it was these amateur filmmakers that narrated the film, creating the most personal and authentic account yet of the 2004 Asian Tsunami.
Under the Banners (Sous les Drapeaux)
AMIP
France / 2009
Producer: Xavier Carniaux
Director: Henry Colomer
Footage Archive Researcher: Fiona McLaughlin
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Archives Film
BFI National Archive
British Pathé / ITN Source
Bundesfilmarchiv/ Transit Film Gmbh
Chronos Media
Under the banners that symbolized the nationalization of the masses, millions of men slaughtered one another during the first world war. Flags, liturgical clothing, uniforms, suits, swaddling clothes, sheets, bandages, shrouds...Working from a mountain of archives, Under the banners, is a look back the first decades of the twentieth century, showing men and women in relationship to the cloth, out of which their days and night were woven, and which was the very stuff of their values and beliefs.
This documentary creates a musical dialogue between the historical archives. The first war emerges from the background, rather than treating frontally.
