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Award for Best Use of Footage in a History Factual Production

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Cited Work	*Appelfeld's Table*
Production Company	Catherine the Great Productions
Producer / Director	Adi Japhet Fuchs
Writer	Adi Japhet Fuchs
Film/VT Editor	Lilia Tzvokbenkel
Archive Researcher (s)	Irit Eshet
Top Sources of Footage	Spielberg Archive, Jerusalem
	Jerusalem Cinémathèque Archives
	Romanian National Archives


Duration	60 minutes
First Shown	Channel 8 Israel - 25/09/04
Country of Origin	Israel
Synopsis	Appelfeld's Table tells the dramatic life story of Mr. Aharon Appelfeld, one of Israel's most prominent writers. The documentary explores memory and imagination, fiction and subconscious creativity and suppression. The doc reveals the depths of the collective Israeli psyche and gives the viewer a better understanding of where the Israelis are coming from and what motivates them...
Reasons for Submission	This documentary tells a very dramatic story and at the same time telling the collective story of how the Israelis invented their "Israeli-sm" after Israel was established. It is a thought provoking well crafted doc that uses archival footage in a very creative way among other materials. The documentary won the Mayor's Award in the last Jerusalem International Film Festival "...achieves great artistic beauty, penetrating the heart and mind of a writer with a unique and personal voice." An un-conventional and moving documentary.

Cited Work	Battle of the Bogside
Production Company	Perfect Cousin Productions Ltd
Producer / Director	Vinny Cunningham
Writer	John Peto
Film/VT Editor	Kevin Murray
Archive Researcher (s)	Vinny Cunningham
Top Sources of Footage	RTE Archive
	ITN Archive
	BBC Motion Gallery
	Archive Ireland
	Northland Broadcast
Duration	58 minutes
First Shown	BBC4 - March 2004
Country of Origin	UK, Northern Ireland
Synopsis	On 12 August 1969, the disaffected Catholic population of the Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland took to the streets in the wake of a Protestant Apprentice Boys parade in the City. The riots continued for three days and ended when British troops were deployed, a decision that was to shape the future of Northern Ireland for over thirty years. This film takes us ‘behind the barricades’ on both sides to reveal the inside stories surrounding the battle.
Reasons for Submission	I believe that these awards could give further publicity to my film. I am quite proud of the way that we used the archive, both visual and sound, in this documentary. We spent over a year gathering the required archive for this film.

Cited Work	The Fight - Eps. A Dirty Business
Production Company	BBC
Producer	Tom Ware
Director	Sally Thomson
Film/VT Editor	Stuart Davies
Archive Researcher (s)	Lawrence Breen
Top Sources of Footage	ESPN
	HBO Sports
	UCLA
	Steve Lott
	CBS News
Duration	60 minutes x 4 episodes
First Shown	BBC2 - 14 Nov 2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	History of professional boxing. This episode looks at the influence of the mafia and corruption in the fight game.
Reasons for Submission	Programme features huge diversity of sports and factual archive from different sources to illustrate a subject never previously covered on TV. Programme is over 70% archive, and combines this with reconstructions.

Cited Work	*The House of Saud*
Production Company	Alegria
Producer	Christine Camdessus
Director / Writer	Jihan El-Tahri
Film/VT Editor	Gilles Bovon
Archive Researcher (s)	Jihan El-Tahri
Top Sources of Footage	Home Movies
	Gaumont Pathé Archives
	King Abdel Aziz Foundation
	APTN
	Footage Farm
Duration	118 minutes
First Shown	BBC4 - July 2004
Country of Origin	France
Synopsis	15 of the 19 terrorists that attacked The World Trade Center on Sept 11th were Saudi Arabian. Why would rich young Saudis attack their main ally? The House of Saud looks at the history of Saudi Arabia to provide the keys to understanding this event. For the first time ever, the Saudi royal family tells its own history of the desert kingdom, from its Islamic roots to the origins of Osama Bin Laden.
Reasons for Submission	Contains never before seen home movie footage depicting the Saudi royal family and life in the desert kingdom in the 40s, 50s and 60s, found after exhaustive research and contact with ex patriots. It also includes rarely seen footage from the royal families' own archive.

Cited Work	*American Experience: Tupperware*
Production Company	Blueberry Hill Productions
Producer / Director	Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
Writer	Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
Film/VT Editor	William Anderson
Archive Researcher (s)	Robin Hessman
Top Sources of Footage	Tupperware Inc. Collection
	Private collections/home movies
	Getty Images: Archive Films/Prelinger Collection
	ABC News Videosource
	Smithsonian Archive Center, Florida State Archives
Duration	62 minutes
First Shown	PBS 09/02/2004
Country of Origin	USA
Synopsis	TUPPERWARE! tells the remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught saleswoman who built him an empire out of bowls that burped. Brownie was an intuitive marketing genius who trained an army of Tupperware Ladies to put on Tupperware parties in living rooms across America in the 1950s. The film includes rare footage collected from basements, attics and back rooms: color home movies taken by Tupperware Ladies and Jubilee footage shot by Tupperware Home Parties, as well as ads and television excerpts from the period. The footage is interwoven with fabulous and funny stories told by the Tupperware Ladies who witnessed the company’s early years.
Reasons for Submission	The archival research for TUPPERWARE! took the filmmakers into places where they discovered rich, unknown film collections. They discovered boxes of outtakes that hadn’t been seen for fifty years in the Tupperware company archives in Florida, they found wonderful home movies that had been lost or forgotten in private homes all over the country (materials interviewees had stored in their attics, garages, and basements), and they found a barn full of archival footage and photos documenting the early years of the first home party company, Stanley Home Products. In many instances, producer Kahn-Leavitt encouraged the owners of the film to donate their collections to archives where their film would be preserved and made accessible to others, and she helped make this happen by introducing the film owners to archivists. Research for TUPPERWARE! also took the filmmakers into numerous obscure collections of ephemeral films, as well as well-known collections of old television ads and television shows. All of this work resulted in an award-winning film (Banff history/bio prize and Emmy nomination for best direction) that has brought to light an important but neglected story in American history.

Cited Work	BATA, the family that wanted to fit the planet with shoes
Production Company	Lapsus
Producer	Esther Hoffenberg
Director	Jarmila Buzkova
Film/VT Editor	Anne-MarieL'Hote
Archive Researcher (s)	Jarmila Buzkova
Top Sources of Footage	National Film Archive Prague
	Bonton Zlin
	Telepool Zürich
	Private collections

Duration	52 minutes
First Shown	France 5, 15/08/2004
Country of Origin	France / Czech Republic
Synopsis	Through the accounts of members of the Bata family and former workers, the film recounts the double story of a family and a company. Ath the end of the 19th century, Thomas Bata started his own shoe manufacturing company in Zlin, in the heart of the future Czechoslovakia. While applying the principles of industrial efficiency originated in the USA, Thomas's company adopted a "Bif Brother" model, managing both the workers' labor and their private lives. This "charitable totalitarianism" let Bata's affiliated companies prosper around the world. After Thomas's death, the Second World War split the world in two and tore the family and the company apart. Tha East nationalized industry, the West rationalized it. Throughout the 20th century, Bata survived through economic, social and political upheavals. In order to stay alive and to make benefits nowadays, the company is continuously adapting to globalization and abandoning one by one its founder's principles.
Reasons for Submission	The Berlin Wall has fallen. The history, the geopolitical situation have been turned upside down. That event has also affected personal and familial destinies. As it has for the famous Bata family, cut in two by the Second World War. I had to wait until now to complete the analysis of its history, to have a sight from both side of the iron curtain, mainly through unpublished archive footage.After six months of research in different countries, I had collected enough information to draw a picture not only of the history of Bata family and its company, but also of the economical evolution of the 20th century.

Cited Work	*Japan's War*
Production Company	TWI / Carlton
Producer	David Batty
Director
Writer
Film/VT Editor	Stephen Moore
Archive Researcher (s)	Adrian Wood & Polly Petit
Top Sources of Footage	NARA
	NHK + private Japanese collections
	Imperial War Museum
	Footage Farm
	Technovid
Duration	120 minutes
First Shown	Channel 4, 17/01/04
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	For eight years the Japanese fought what they believed was a Holy War that became a fight to the death. Using never-before-seen colour footage, Japan's War tells a previously untold story. It recounts the history of the Second World War from a Japanese perspective, combining original colour film with letters and diaries written by Japanese people. It tells the story of a nation at war from the diverse perspectives of those who lived through it: the leaders and the ordinary people, the oppressors and the victims, the guilty and the innocent.
Reasons for Submission	For years the received wisdom had been that there were was no colour film of Japan before the Allies arrived in 1945. Through meticulous research we proved that this was untrue. First we discovered that Kodak had had a laboratory in Osaka from the mid-1930s, suggesting that colour film was available in Japan at that time. Then through a three-year research campaign in Japan itself, we discovered large amounts of colour film hidden in public and private collections. In particular, we discovered never-before-seen film of Japan in the early 1930s, Japanese troops in China and sensational film of the Emperor’s brother meeting Adolf Hitler in 1937. Our search also extended to film archives around the world and another sensational find was the only colour film of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

Cited Work	*The War at Sea -* Episode: *Will to Win*
Production Company	BBC
Producer / Director	Mike Rossiter
Writer	Prof Andrew Lambert
Film/VT Editor	Mike Lithgow
Archive Researcher (s)	Angela Spindler-Brown
Top Sources of Footage	Imoerial War Museum
	Images of War
	Huntley Film Archives
	Clips & Footage
	Royal Airforce Museum Hendon
Duration	60 minutes
First Shown	BBC2 - 08/02/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	The WILL TO WIN was a part of the BBC2 series of THE WAR AT SEA. The documentary told the story of the Royal Navy and its fight to control the Mediterranean during the first eighteen months of the Second World War - when Britain was fighting the Axis powers on her own. The Navy used air power to sink the Italian fleet at Taranto, and to cripple the Bismark, but the Germans had their revenge at Malta and Crete. The Japanese, however, learnt the lessons of Taranto, and their attack on Pearl Harbour brought Britain's isolation to an end.
Reasons for Submission	The WILL TO WIN, part of the BBC2 documentary series THE WAR AT SEA, used archive material in an innovative way, seamlessly contrasting historical footage with more recent images. The finished documentary provided a vivid portrait of forgotten naval battles from the Second World War, while highlighting less well known aspects of the conflict. The footage showed the use of aircraft carriers and the operations of the Fleet Air Arm - at the time the cutting edge in naval technology and strategy - making the story relevant to contemporary viewers. The use of archive footage made eye witness accounts of key events, such as the sinking of French fleet at Oran, come alive. A great deal of underwater archive footage was utilised, juxtaposed with newer images that allowed the audience to observe the current state of these wrecks. Archive footage therefore successfully fulfilled three important functions of illustration, evidence and verification.

Cited Work	When Black Became Beautiful Prog 2: Cornrows, Afros and anything goes
Production Company	Juniper Communications Ltd
Producer / Director	Tim Pritchard
Associate Producers	Monique de Villiers and Paula Hector
Film/VT Editor	Glenn Rainton
Archive Researcher (s)	James Smith (footage) Monique de Villiers (stills)
Top Sources of Footage	Fred McDonald Archive
	BBC Motion Gallery
	ITN/Reuters/Pathe France
	Video Fashion
	Footage Farm
Duration	59 minutes x 3 episodes
First Shown	BBC2, UK 14/03/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	WBBB is an intelligent look at the world of fashion and beauty through the eyes of black people. Prog 2 looks at how the civil rights movement, the spread of Pan Africanism and the Cultural Revolution changed the notion of beauty: Malcom X led to Black Power, Angela Davies' exuberant black afro became a political symbol and style icon and Tamla Motown was the most popular dance music of the era and Black models entered the mainstream.
Reasons for Submission	The archive film and stills of this unique period in history helps the audience move from the revolutionary zeal of the Black Panther movement, to the commercial hedonism of American advertising, moving from high fashion to classic music, and reflecting the harsh social realities of a turbulent time. This was brilliant use of archive as the programme was able to match some interviews with the archive - thus making history come alive. The amusing and sad stories told by some of the people in the archive footage/stills give a real flavour of how the fashion world has changed.

Cited Work	Camarades, il était une fois les communistes français
Production Company	La Compagnie des Phares et Balises
Producer	Jean Labib
Director/Writer	Yves Jeuland
Film/VT Editor	Dominique Barbier
Archive Researcher (s)	Marie France Pirotte
Top Sources of Footage	Cine Archives
	INA Media
	Gaumont Pathé Archives


Duration	80 mins x 2 episodes
First Shown	France 3, 10/04/04
Country of Origin	France
Synopsis	One page in the history of French society seems to have been turned over for good with the advent of the 21st century, it is that of communism. The communist electorate collapsed, the Party lost its social bearing, and a whole universe broke down. However, it was not so long ago that French communists made up a counter-society. At that time PCF, the French communist party, was the biggest in France, with its own offices, departments, and cultural and sporting organizations: its own regional newspapers and its untouchable bastions, from the Greater Paris belt to the Red South, from the northern region of Lille to the southern one of Limoges. Going into the ‘Party’ was like going into religion. It had its own heroes, legends and myths. You were either for or against it.
Reasons for Submission	Sixty years of communist life in France is shown and illustrated in this documentary, supported by exceptional archive documents, militant films, songs, previously unseen reports from the famous faces of the time, and enriched with interviews of militant families - miners from the southern ‘Gard’ region, agricultural workers from northern ‘Haute-Vienne’ and railway workers from the Pas-de-Calais region bordering the English Channel, to name but a few. This is a collective and intimate adventure, it is the sum of many fates, by turns moving, funny and cruel, which helps to show the rites and values of France at a certain time, shedding light on the ‘comrade’ culture.

Cited Work	Le Soldat Inconnu Vivant
Production Company	La Compagnie des Phares et Balises
Producer	Jean Labib
Director	Joel Calmettes
Writer	Joel Calmettes & Jean-Yves Le Naour
Film/VT Editor	Murielle Froger
Archive Researcher (s)	Laurence Mansuy
Top Sources of Footage	Gaumont Pathé Archives
	ECPAD
	Lobster Films


Duration	56 mins
First Shown	ARTE, 10/11/2004
Country of Origin	France
Synopsis	Throughout the inter-war period, one man fascinated public opinion. His name was Anthelme Mangin, his nickname ‘The living unknown soldier’. His story is that of a soldier who in 1918 returned amnesiac from a German prison camp. No sooner was his existence known than families of those who never returned, tried to obtain his recognition. The Second World War then interrupted proceedings. Moved from asylum to asylum during the period, it was in Sainte-Anne, alone and abandoned by all, that he would die in 1942. Mangin, in the midst of these crazy years, is a sort of living-dead, a spectre haunting consciences, but without ever uttering a word. Never judging. Never demanding.
Reasons for Submission	The story of a true soldier, of France during the interwar years

Cited Work	Strike: When Britain Went to War
Production Company	Blakeway Productions
Producer	Kate Werran
Director	Janice Sutherland
Film/VT Editor	Daniel de Waal and Dan Smith
Archive Researcher (s)	Miriam Walsh
Top Sources of Footage	ITN Archive
	BBC Motion Gallery
	ITN Archive, Granada & Carlton TV Collections
	Music Mall
	Film Images, COI Collection
Duration	102 mins
First Shown	Channel 4, 24/01/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	The programme tells the dramatic story of the year-long miners' strike of 1984/85 which split the nation and brought the country to the brink of civil war. When the Government announced plans to cut 20 coal mines with 20,000 jobs, the Miners' leader Arthur Scargill called his men out on strike. But this was no ordinary strike over pit closures, the stakes were much higher. Two opposing armies, led by the Marxist Arthur Scargill and the champion of the free market, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher battled it out for the future of Britain. The programme charts the first heady days of the strike, against the backdrop of Thatcher's Britain in 1984 - Wham fever, Princess Diana's second pregnancy, and Torvill and Dean's ice-skating triumph at the Olympics. It progresses to the watershed, the televised pitched battles one long hot summer's day at Orgreave coking plant which cost the miners both public support and sympathy and ultimately sealed their fate, and on through the long, dark days of the strike when hopes of a settlement receded forever. It ends with a summary of the strike's lasting impact on British life, and how the lives of the contributors were changed forever.
Reasons for Submission	The programme makers' brief was to do more than just narrate the events of the strike, using archive and talking heads. Channel Four wanted humour, a sense of the time, a feeling for the cultural shift that was taking place in Thatcher's Britain, as well as a reflection of parallel events during the dispute. As the Film Researcher, Miriam Walsh's contribution was accordingly critical. In addition to going to the established archives, she delved in local archives up and down the country to find both the quirky and the powerful footage evocative of the period. The rich material she provided gave the editors great scope to blend the different stories extremely effectively and the resulting programme speaks to that. The raw emotion of the miners on each side of the divide, the ambivalence of natural Thatcher supporters, the triumph of Torvill and Dean in Sarajevo, the success of the Band Aid single released in November 1984 all interweave to make this a sad, funny, nostalgic and most appealing documentary. It compellingly recalls a bitter struggle only twenty years ago but seems, when seen in this programme, a lifetime away.

Cited Work	Afgahnistan - War Without End
Production Company	The History Channel
Producer/Director	Jo Elliot
Writer	Sandy Gall
Film/VT Editor	Jo Elliot
Archive Researcher (s)	Toby Gronm & Katy Sherwood
Top Sources of Footage	Carlton International
	ITN Archive



Duration	60 mins
First Shown	The History Channel, Nov 2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	Sandy Gall outlines the history of Afghanistan, his involvement in reporting the Afghan Russian War and how it led to him founding the charity that runs there to this day.
Reasons for Submission	The film effortlessly blends Sandy then and now and uses old and modern archive material to highlight the relentless repetition of history that has become Afghanistan’s fate - no tricks or fancy graphics - just a good old fashioned classic cut with a strong sense of the probity and value of the material used.

Cited Work	Tin Soldiers
Production Company	Piraya Film as
Producer	Torstein Grude
Director	Stian Indrevoll
Film/VT Editor	Erik Andersson
Archive Researcher (s)	Stian Indrevoll
Top Sources of Footage	Gunnar Brandsdal Home Video
	Dark Side TV
	ITN
	NRK aktivum
	Norwegian Army Media Center
Duration	48 minutes
First Shown	NRK - 28/10/2004
Country of Origin	Norway
Synopsis	Through UN-soldier Gunnar Brandsdal's video diary, we get to know the life inside Force Mobile Reserve camp in South Lebanon 1996. It is a military service resembling a holiday in the sun with parties and drinking; But soon the gravity picks up and the laughter gets stuck in their throats. April 18th, the Israeli army bombs a nearby UN camp that hosts more than 500 Palestinian refugees. The soldiers are sent out on a rescue operation, to find survivors among all the dead. Afterwards the Israeli army claims the bombing was a accident, but Gunnar Brandsdal's tapes show something else.
Reasons for Submission	In midst of the fog of war, the images from a handycam prooved that Israel commited a war crime when they bombed the Qana compound. The political cover up was revealed by a single video tape, brought to the attention of the world by a UN soldier who disobeyed orders. Tin Soldiers has three intervowen timelines, two of which are told entirely through archival material. Our goal was to take the audience back in time through the archival material in such a way as to forget that the main part of what they see is actually 7 years old. We wanted to bring the present day experience and that of 7 years ago together.

Cited Work	Who Do You Think You Are? Eps. *Sue Johnston*
Production Company	Wall to Wall
Producer	Victoria Watson
Director	Kate O'Driscoll
Film/VT Editor
Archive Researcher (s)	Peter Scott
Top Sources of Footage	Huntley Film Archives
	BFI
	Film Images
	British Movietonews
	ITN, British Pathé Collection
Duration	40minutes x 6 episodes
First Shown	BBC2, 23/09/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	The format of the series was to demonstrate a sense of place and time through family genealogy. The family histories, while of well known people, also reflected typical families and generations, and the sense of satisfaction derived from exploring your own family history.
Reasons for Submission	The archive film was beautifully used in this programme. Our particular remit was to supply steam railway shots that would mark the time and place but also transmit to the narrative the sense of journey and movement back in time. The sequence was edited very well; classical archive footage use.

Cited Work	Hidden History Eps. Women of the Goldrush
Production Company	RTE TV
Producer / Director	Anne Roper
Writer	Anne Roper
Film/VT Editor	Ray Roantree
Archive Researcher (s)	Anne Roper & Zoe Liston
Top Sources of Footage	Rasmussen Library
	University of Alaska
	US Library of congress
	Yakima Valley Museum
	Irish Film Archive
Duration	52 minutes
First Shown	RTE 1, 02/11/2004
Country of Origin	Ireland
Synopsis	In 1898, as the gold rush to Alaska turned to a stampede, three adventurous Irish women struck out in search of fortune. They hiked six hundred miles across the frozen Yukon and survived to tell the tale. Belinda Mulrooney arrived in America with nothing, but ended up running the largest mining conglomerate in the Northwest Territory. Nellie Cashman prospected across America from Baja to Tombstone before ending her days digging for ore above the Arctic Circle. Mollie Walsh, a mining camp follower and perhaps even a prostitute, escaped her violent and wealthy husband only to be murdered in Seattle.
Reasons for Submission	A story set in 1898 would be difficult enough to tell with archive, but seeing as the Klondike rush coincided with Edison's first film project, I thought it important to make pay subtle homage to this footage in Women of the Goldrush. Stereoscopic views are used to bridge film & photo transitions while drama elements are shot with archive blending in mind. Above all, story telling is paramount and the use of archive has made the lives of these women more poignant and alive--particularly use of the Cheechachos film from 1919.

Cited Work	Andere Tijden (Different Times) Eps: Het leven ging door (Life went on)
Production Company	NPS
Producer	Laura Kaandorp
Director / Writer	Ad van Liempt
Film/VT Editor	Rombout van Sonsbeek
Archive Researcher (s)	Gerard Nijssen & Suzanne Hendriks
Top Sources of Footage	Smalfilmmuseum
	RVD
	NIBG (Dutch Institute for Sound and Images)
	B. Postema (private collection)
	Van Dam (private collection)
Duration	70 minutes x 18 episodes
First Shown	Nederlands 3, 4/05/2004
Country of Origin	The Netherlands
Synopsis	What did ordinary life look like during the Second World War? Andere Tijden is a special series, totally dedicated to this topic. During the war, people had to sleep, eat, work and occasionally they even had parties. Life went on shows images never shown before of transport, parties, hiding, food aid and the liberation. The programme is a selection of 25 hours of amateur film from the Smalfilmmuseum and regional and private collections. Fragments from diaries are chosen to accompany some parts of the film.
Reasons for Submission	Because the clips are usually without sound and we just used some excerpts from diaries all the attention is drawn to the images. It was an experiment to see if a film, partly without sound, would work. We think it did work perfectly.

Cited Work	Life Behind the Wall Eps: 1
Production Company	Looks Film & TV
Producer	Gunnar Dedio
Director	Karsten Laske
Film/VT Editor	Roland Possehl
Archive Researcher (s)	Ulrike Biehounek & Wiebke Krumbiegel
Top Sources of Footage	Progress (Berlin)
	DRA (Potsdam)
	WDR
	Footage Farm
	Saxonian State Archive (Leipzig)
Duration	45 minutes x 4
First Shown	ARD, Germany 08/11/2004
Country of Origin	Germany
Synopsis	Multimedia Project by MDR, WDR and LOOKS Film & TV. East Germany, the former GDR, is currently experiencing a kind of medial resurrection. East Germany themed shows present their stars in FDJ shirts, Wolfgang Becker's comedy Good-Bye, Lenin became a giant success at the box office. The centre piece was always the everyday life and the experiences of the people in the Workers' and Peasants' State. Some of the anecdotes presented were surely brushed up with inevitable nostalgia, cliché and kitsch instead of knowledge and truth. Life Behind the Wall begins just there. The series seeks to tell the broad history of East Germany through the lives and experiences of its people, who experienced it from a multitude of viewpoints. The series is committed to painting a broad picture of history through the individual's point of view. We want to dive into the everyday Life Behind the Wall.
Reasons for Submission	Life Behind the Wall has unearthed footage beyond the all-too-often used propaganda films. Amateur films, pictures and documents show a different, more private view of East Germany. We consider our researcher and footage researcher as extraordinary, especially for finding material, that’s been sitting in dusty drawers and basements.

Cited Work	*A King in China*
Production Company	People & Places
Producer / Director	Paul Harris
Writer	Paul Harris
Film/VT Editor	Kawe Vakil
Archive Researcher (s)	Paul Harris
Top Sources of Footage	State Library Berlin
	National Archives Washington DC
	National Film Archives Prague
	Filmarchiv Austria

Duration	52 minutes
First Shown	NPS, 05/04/2004
Country of Origin	Germany
Synopsis	An intriguing documentary about Joseph Francis Rock, one of the last classic explorers of the 20th century. He arrived in China in 1922 at a unique moment in history as the doors were briefly opened to foreigners. Living in wild and troubled provinces in a chaotic nation, Rock explored the mountainous regions along the Chinese-Tibetan borderlands, areas unknown to the West. With his photographs and films he created an unparalleled visual documentation of life in Western China and spent half of his life preserving the unique pictographic script of the Naxi, an ethnic minority in Southwest China.
Reasons for Submission	I came across Joseph Rock’s own footage of his travels in China in a cellar as I was researching in the State Library in Berlin. In the last seventy years this material has neither been seen or published before. On the basis of this discovery I went to China and followed Rocks’ footsteps, as far as this was possible. Many of the areas Rock travelled through are still closed to foreigners today. I met and interviewed many people who had known Rock when they were children, the Naxi people who appear in the film. My reason for submission is that Rock’s footage is the basis for the film about him and that it tells the story of a daring European whose travels can be compared with any of the more well-known explorers of the 18th and 19th centuries, writing another page in the history books of European culture and travel.

Cited Work	Foyers de Création Eps. New York 1943
Production Company	Palette Production
Producer	Paul Saadoun
Director / Writer	Jean-Loïc Portron
Film/VT Editor	Fabienne Alvarez-Giro
Archive Researcher (s)	Virginie Guibbaud & Corrine Wichard
Top Sources of Footage	Lobster Films
	Getty Images
	Gaumont Pathé Archives
	Historic Films
	NARA
Duration	52 minutes x 7 minutes
First Shown	ARTE, 30/10/2004
Country of Origin	France
Synopsis	During the second world war, an American avant-garde movement was born in Manhattan. Within a few years, New York replaced Paris as the new capital of Western culture.
Reasons for Submission	This documentary shows an original way of evoking the past, by mixing different kinds of moving images (actual, documentaries, archives or feature films) . The result is not only educational, but also metaphoric and poetical, and it helps to feel the spirit of one historical period.

Cited Work	Robert Capa, The Man Who Believed His Own Legend
Production Company	Point du Jour
Producer	Luc Martin Gousset
Director	Patrick Jeudy
Writer	Gérard Miller
Film/VT Editor	Véronique Lagoarde Ségot
Archive Researcher (s)	Charlotte de Luppé
Top Sources of Footage	US National Archives
	Getty Images
	ECPAD
	Sabucat

Duration	52 minutes
First Shown	France 5, 19/12/2004
Country of Origin	France
Synopsis	50 years ago, Robert Capa died in Indochina. Icon of a whole generation of photo journalists, he embodies the very spirit of adventure: a romantic hero, a legendary photographer with a tragic end.. The film takes its departure with the photo that “made” Robert Capa: the Spanish Republican mortally wounded in front of his camera. The question of the photo’s authenticity is the ‘knot’ of our story. This shot came to be regarded as Capa’s guiding principle of his job: the closer you get to the action, the better the photo and its impact!
Reasons for Submission	We used archival footage in a specific way in this film: as the subject is photography we created stills out of film footage, trying to be in the photographer's mind, to catch the moment he would have liked to shoot. The other aspect of Patrick Jeudy's work is his search for unknown Capa's footage. In Indochina the man behind the wounded soldiers taking pictures is Capa.

Cited Work	Days That Shook The World Eps. Attack on Pearl Harbor
Production Company	Lion Television
Producer / Director	Dan Clifton
Film/VT Editor	Michael Harrowes
Archive Researcher (s)	Steve Bergson
Top Sources of Footage	Footage Farm
	Images of War
	NARA


Duration	59 minutes x 10 episodes
First Shown	BBC 4, 25/10/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	The attacks on December 7th 1941 on the Hawaiian naval base of Pearl Harbor would catch America completely by surprise. Striking when it was least expected - the Japanese aircraft were able to pick off their targets from the mighty battleships of the US Pacific Fleet before people even realised what was happening. Based on eyewitness accounts, the film tells the gripping story of how Washington codebreakers intercepted a message from Tokyo hinting at a possible attack - but didn’t get it to Pearl Harbor until far too late. It recounts how the Japanese Navy brilliantly reinvented traditional naval doctrine by using aircraft carriers for the first time to devastating effect. The hour long special brings to life the extraordinary drama of twenty four hours that would change the course of world history.
Reasons for Submission	Pearl Harbor recreates the mood and intensity of one of history's most epic events. Many would have approacehd this subject with the use of flashy CGI or ambitious combat dramatisation. Instead this film relies on a novel and inventive use of archive material to recreate the attack. The scenes of dramatisation are cleverly understated, placing emphasis instead on the archive footage to illustrate the devastation which took place that day in Hawaii. As a result the film has a tremendous feeling of authenticity which adds to the overall sense of believability. The impact of the days events is also brought to an extraordinary climax - one that is, again, totally driven by archive.

Cited Work	Bob Kennedy - The Man Who Wanted to Change America
Production Company	Point du Jour
Producer	Luc Martin Gousset
Director	Patrick Jeudy
Writer	Gérard Miller
Film/VT Editor	Véronique Lagoarde Ségot
Archive Researcher (s)	Valérie Combard & Cédric Lépée
Top Sources of Footage	US National Archives
	JFK Library
	BBC Motion Gallery, CBS Collection
	NBC

Duration	52 minutes
First Shown	ARTE, 14/01/2004
Country of Origin	France
Synopsis	“The new frontier” – JFK’s vision of the future - was to be the incarnation of his presidency… After his death, it was his brother BOB KENNEDY who came to symbolize the hopes of the nation for the following five years, until his own violent death in 1968. He was the true centre of the “new frontier”, a man with principles and deep-rooted convictions. One cannot assess JFK’s presidency, without taking into account Bob’s profound influence. He had been his principal advisor in foreign politics and, later, in domestic politics.
Reasons for Submission	An all archival footage film.

Cited Work	Wine at War
Production Company	Poin du Jour
Producer	Serge Gordey
Director	Albert Knechtel
Film/VT Editor
Archive Researcher (s)	Charlotte Luppé
Top Sources of Footage	La Camera Stylo
	Pathé Gaumont
	INA
	US National Archives

Duration	52 minutes
First Shown	ARTE, 17/11/2004
Country of Origin	France
Synopsis	From 1940 to 1944, a “Drôle de guerre”, a little known war had been waged: the war of wine. The occupation forces were eager to get their hands on the French wine to quench the thirst of their soldiers and the German consumer. The dignitaries of the Reich appreciated a fine bottle and were determined to enjoy the precious French nectar. The French wine producers resigned themselves – with various degrees of enthusiasm – to selling their production to an occupier who turned out to be an excellent client after all. There was hardly any looting by the German troops and not much resistance from the French. There was, however, a flourishing, well-organised trade. Until the day it all turned sour, when trade gave way to plundering of Jewish properties in the wine business. The new masters of the wine business in France – former professional wine traders in their civilian life - were soon dubbed « Weinführer » by the French.
Reasons for Submission	Albert Knechtel’s film brings to life the German veterans’ fond memories of France and the far more ambiguous souvenirs of the French wine growers.

Cited Work	Movie's First Steps Eps. A Dream in Living Colour
Production Company	Lobster Films
Producer	Serge Bromberg
Director	Eric Lange
Writer	Serge Bromberg & Eric Lange
Film/VT Editor	Eric Lange
Archive Researcher (s)
Top Sources of Footage	Lobster Films




Duration	52 minutes x 2 episodes
First Shown	Histoire, 16/05/2004
Country of Origin	France
Synopsis	Here is a series made for television about the early years of movies, our first universal language. The 52-minute episodes are written like adventure stories about trials and wanderings, the spectacular advances and grotesque failures in creating a new and unexplored means of expression. A Dream in Living Colour is the episode that shows the attempts to eternalize the real world in movement and colour. Here is a series made for television about the early years of movies, our first universal language. The 52-minute episodes are written like adventure stories about trials and wanderings, the spectacular advances and grotesque failures in creating a new and unexplored means of expression. A Dream in Living Colour is the episode that shows the attempts to eternalize the real world in movement and colour.
Reasons for Submission	Movies First Steps is a historical series about the birth and "growing up" of the cinema in the early years. Further, each episode is packed with newly-discovered and freshly-restored footage which we preferred to the familiar scenes.

Cited Work	Who Do You Think You Are? Eps: Bill Oddie
Production Company	Wall to Wall
Producer	Ben Gale & Victoria Watson
Director	Simon Chu
Film/VT Editor
Archive Researcher (s)	Peter Scott & Debbie Townsend
Top Sources of Footage	ITN Archive - British Pathe collection
	Corbis
	Film Images
	Northwest Film Archive
	Huntley Film Archive
Duration	55 minutes
First Shown	BBC2, 12/10/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	Bill Oddie – embarks on an immensely personal journey to try and find out what happened to his mother, who was institutionalised for most of his childhood. His journey takes him back into the history of mental health in the post war years, and then further still to the tumultuous history of the Industrial Revolution in the North West of England.
Reasons for Submission	This series of 10 programmes offers an alternative way of looking at the history of modern Britain – a people’s history. For this reason each celebrity has been chosen so that their journey unlocks a different key theme in British history. Archive footage illustrates this brilliantly.

Cited Work	Wales in Our Time with John Humphrys Eps. Prog 2: Paradise...?
Production Company	BBC Wales
Producer	Dai Williams
Director	Jeff Morgan
Writer	Jeff Morgan
Film/VT Editor	Steve Phillips
Archive Researcher (s)	Rosemary Scaddon & Cedwyn Aled
Top Sources of Footage	BBC Motion Gallery
	Huntley film Archives
	ITN Archive, British Pathe Collection
	HTV
	Archive Aberystwyth
Duration	40 minutes x 5 episodes
First Shown	BBC1 Wales, 25/02/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	Wales in Our Timewith John Humphrys takes a chronological look at Wales over the decades, following the turbulent post-war years and their effect on the development of the nation and its people. For presenter John Humphrys, who was born in Cardiff making the series gave him the opportunity to return to his roots. As well as looking back at major events that were to shape the future of Wales, the emphasis is very much on the cultural as well as the historical past of Wales. Each programme in the five part series aims to capture the spirit of the decade which it describes, looking at popular events and cultural changes, using archive footage and interviews
Reasons for Submission	The 1960s was a period of tremendous change in Wales – and tragedy which the archive material illustrates perfectly. For John Humphrys, it is the Aberfan Disaster that particularly stood out for him when looking back over Welsh history. Working in Wales at the time, he was one of the first journalists to reach the scene and he stresses that it is impossible to overestimate the impact that the tragedy had on the country. Extremely moving and effective use of footage. Another highlight of the series comes in the second programme in which previously unseen footage shows how the hair of Jim Callaghan, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Wilson Labour government turned white literally in days during the 1964 Sterling crisis. In the pictures, Callaghan appears to have aged about 10 years in just three weeks.

Cited Work	Colour of War - The Anzacs
Production Company	Film Australia
Producer / Director	Paul Rudd
Writer	Paul Rudd
Film/VT Editor	Carryl Irik
Archive Researcher (s)	Jo Willesee & Graham Shirley
Top Sources of Footage	Australian War Memorial
	The New Zealand Film Archive
	George Bolton
	Film Australia
	Monty Tuckerman
Duration	135 minutes x 3 episodes
First Shown	Network Nine - Australia, 28/11 2004
Country of Origin	Australia
Synopsis	Using only original colour footage, this is the story of Australia and New Zealand at war as never seen before.
Reasons for Submission	This series uses only original colour footage. The film has NOT been colourised. A mammoth search across Australia and internationally uncovered private collections of home movies made by individuals who happened to have a colour camera and went out and filmed life on the streets. One collector had over 150 colour films of soldiers from his local town before they headed off to the front during WWII and had recorded messages from their loved ones to be shown to the soldiers in battle. The colour archival footage paints a vividly detailed picture of Australia and New Zealand from the build up to World War Two to the end of the Vietnam conflict. The colour itself is of a remarkable quality bringing a new fresh look to the topic and a connection to the human side of the story.

Cited Work	*Welcome to Woomera*
Production Company	Film Australia
Producer / Director	Steve Thomas
Writer	Steve Thomas
Film/VT Editor	Zbigniew Friedrich
Archive Researcher (s)	Marsha Emerman & Kim Anning
Top Sources of Footage	Department of Defence
	Film Australia Library
	ABC Content Sales
	National Archives and Records Administration- Telecine, Colorlab Corp.
	US Air Force
Duration	55 minutes
First Shown	ABC TV Australia, 10/11/2004
Country of Origin	Australia
Synopsis	A film about ordinary people in a small town caught up in big events.
Reasons for Submission	Located in the desert of South Australia, the struggle for survival of the township of Woomera is told, in part, by the inclusion of archival footage sourced for the first time from Australia’s Department of Defence. The archival footage includes Australian Indigenous peoples being herded from the Woomera Prohibited Area where the testing of long range missiles and rockets took place during the Cold War. These unique and unreleased images required clearance from the Pitjantjatjara Council as well as the Department of Defence.

Cited Work	*Mr Patterns*
Production Company	Film Australia
Producer	Nic Testoni, Jo Plomley, Megan McMurchy
Director	Catriona McKenzie
Writer	Nic Testoni, Jo Plomley
Film/VT Editor	James Bradley
Archive Researcher (s)	Nic Testoni, Jo Plomley
Top Sources of Footage	Geoff Bardon
	ABC Content Sales
	BMW Group Australia
	Newspix
	Auspic
Duration	54 minutes
First Shown	Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York, 14/11/2004
Country of Origin	Australia
Synopsis	In the 1970s at the Aboriginal settlement of Papunya in Australia’s Western Desert, a teacher named Geoff Bardon helped start one of the most significant art movements of the 20th century.
Reasons for Submission	The story of Mr Patterns is told through the use of a private collection of archival films shot by the subject of the film, Geoff Bardon. Made during the 1970’s whilst working as a teacher in Papunya, Geoff Bardon’s films and his many stills amount to wonderfully rich source of visual material some of which until this year had never been seen before. His films provide images of the landscape and people from Australia’s Western Desert in the sixties and seventies and is a filmic “eye-witness” to life at Papunya. Some segments came from unedited 16mm film footage shot by Geoff on his Bolex showing various scenes of the Artists and their families, landscapes surrounding Papunya, the Honey Ant Mural being painted, etc. The clearance process for this material involved seeking consent from the Indigenous arts agencies before including this archival collection in the program.

Cited Work	*The Life & Times of Malcolm Fraser*
Production Company	Abracadabra Films & Television Productions
Producer	Stella Zammataro
Director	Luigi Acquisto
Writer	Luigi Acquisto
Film/VT Editor	Jane Usher
Archive Researcher (s)	Stella Zammataro
Top Sources of Footage	ABC Content Sales
	Screen Sound Australia
	Malcolm Fraser
	Parliament of Australia
	The Communist Party of Australia
Duration	63 minutes
First Shown	SBS Television Australia, 2/09/2004
Country of Origin	Australia
Synopsis	John Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983, was perceived to be a conservative and ruthless politician. Today, Fraser’s past enemies embrace his “radical” and principled stance on the invasion of Iraq, reconciliation and the rights of asylum seekers. Has Fraser softened or moved to the left since leaving politics? The Life and Times of Malcolm Fraser, explores the evolution of Fraser the man, and unravels the truth behind the public myth.
Reasons for Submission	This documentary unravels the truth about Malcolm Fraser- the man and the myth- and in doing so draws a complex and intimate portrait of one of Australia’s most significant, outspoken and enduring statesmen. Using archival material including 16mm home footage from the Fraser family and material in the public record from the ABC, our national broadcaster, the documentary articulates the changes that Australian society has undergone in recent times: changes that are redefining our identity as a nation and our place in the world.

Cited Work	Dunkirk
Production Company	BBC
Producer	Rob Warr
Director	Alex Holmes
Film/VT Editor	Ollie Huddleston
Archive Researcher (s)	Mike Lewis & Seonaid Murray
Top Sources of Footage	Images of War
	Hoffkes
	Imperial War Museum
	La Camera Stylo
	British Movietonews
Duration	60 minutes x 3 episodes
First Shown	BBC2, 18/02/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	The Dunkirk drama tells the true story of the daring rescue of 338,000 British and Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. The result of a hugely intensive research project, crucially all the featured stories are true.
Reasons for Submission	The Dunkirk drama tells the true story of the daring rescue of 338,000 British and Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. The result of a hugely intensive research project, crucially all the featured stories are true.

Cited Work	Battlefield Britain Eps. Battle of Britain
Production Company	BBC
Producer	Danielle Peck
Director	Danielle Peck
Film/VT Editor	David Fairhead
Archive Researcher (s)	Dan Snow
Top Sources of Footage	Imperial War Museum
	NARA
	ITN Archive, British Pathe collection


Duration	60 minutes x 8 episodes
First Shown	BBC2, 24/09/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	The programme charts the great struggle in the skies above Britain in the summer of 1940. Following the rout of the allied armies in the spring by Hitler’s awesome war machine, Britain faced the prospect of invasion or a terrifying bombing campaign that would force her to come to terms with Hitler. The Nazis expected that their Luftwaffe commanded by the flamboyant Herman Goering would destroy Britain’s RAF and force Churchill to negotiate. Instead the RAF defeated the Luftwaffe and by the end of the summer Germany had cancelled any invasion plans and called off daylight aerial activity.
Reasons for Submission	In the Battle of Britain producer Danielle Peck and Editor David Fairhead used archive in a refreshingly different way. Every archive sequence was strictly woven with the script to illustrate very specific points. We see the Dornier Bomber which Ray Holmes sliced in half with his Hurricane crashing onto the roof of Victoria station or just how quickly a Spitfire pilot used up his 15 seconds of ammunition by using gun camera footage. Closely linked to the archive is the state of the art computer animation with which the presenter explains the strategic story of the battle. He describes the events of key days such as July 10, August 15, August 18, September 7 and September 15. As he describes the overall strategy the archive is used to illustrate key points such as the use of ‘Stuka’ dive-bombers against radar stations or the squadrons of Messerschmitts which accompanied German bomber formations.

Cited Work	Conflicts Eps. *Chechnya*
Production Company	BBC
Producer	Tommy Nagra
Director	Oliver Clark & Neil Dougan
Film/VT Editor	Lee Buers, Rod McClean, Rob Alexander
Archive Researcher (s)	Adam Hopkins
Top Sources of Footage	ITN Archive, British Pathe Collection
	ITN Archive
	ITN Archive, Granada/Carlton Collections
	APTN Library

Duration	30 minutes x 4 episodes
First Shown	BBC3, 15/04/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	Conflicts is BBC3’s series which gives the essential "beginner's guide" to the context behind some of the world’s biggest flashpoints. The four films in this year's series looked at Northern Ireland, Chechnya, China/Tibet and Israel & The Palestinians.
Reasons for Submission	The archive-driven format blends footage, eye-catching graphics and interviews with young people whose lives have been affected by the conflicts.

Cited Work	*927 On the Train to Hell*
Production Company	Televisio de Catalunya
Producer	Muntsa Tarres
Director	Montse Armengou
Film/VT Editor	M. Josep Tubella
Archive Researcher (s)	Montse Bailac
Top Sources of Footage	Filmoteca Espanola
	NARA
	INA Média
	Gaumont Pathe
	Visnews
Duration	53 minutes
First Shown	Televisio de Catalunya, 7/03/2004
Country of Origin	Spain
Synopsis	August 24, 1940. A train crammed with 927 Spaniards who had sought refuge in France after Spanish Civil War, pulled out of Angoulême station in southern France. Hitler's troops had just conquered France and split the country in two. The refugees thought they were being taken to unoccupied Vichy, France. But soon they realized they were travelling north. The final stop, a small Austrian village called Mauthausen, from which the nearby concentration camp took its name.
Reasons for Submission	Effective use of archive footage.

Cited Work	An Plassy
Production Company	Pónbró
Producer	Bróna Ní Uallacháin
Director	Páid Ó Neachtain
Film/VT Editor	Rónán Ó Dubhthaigh
Archive Researcher (s)	Páid Ó Neachtain & Bróna Ní Uallacháin
Top Sources of Footage




Duration	26 minutes
First Shown	TG4, 17/10/2004
Country of Origin	Ireland
Synopsis	In the sweeping shots of 'Craggy Island' in the opening sequence of Father Ted we see a huge ship left high and dry on an Atlantic shoreline. For 44 years the rusting hulk of the cargo ship 'The Plassy' has stood the test of time and now we finally put faces to the crewmen and hear their story. 'An Plassy' tells us the amazing story of human endeavour that lies behind this shipwreck. We hear also from the island men of Inis Oirr who risked their lives to try to pull them from the water on the fateful night of 8th March 1960 when the Plassy went aground in a horrendous storm in which their lives became linked forever.
Reasons for Submission	The use of incredible never before seen footage taken on the actual night, along with dramatic reconstruction brings us back to that night over 44 years ago. A night when the hardy men of Arainn battled with gale force winds to save the lives of 11 men they had never met. The footage is expertly intertwined with stills of the rescue and the reconstructions to carry the narration of the crew members and the rescuers through the perilous events of that night on a remote island in the west of Ireland in March 1960

Cited Work	*Hingitaq - The Outcasts*
Production Company	Lynx Media A/S
Producer
Director	Ulrik Holmstrup
Film/VT Editor	Ulrik Holmstrup
Archive Researcher (s)	Jørgen Pedersen
Top Sources of Footage




Duration	58 minutes
First Shown	Danish National Television, 11/02/2004
Country of Origin	Denmark / Greenland
Synopsis	The film Hingitaq – The Outcasts tells the story of the Thule sealers tragic fate. The background for making this film is the agreement between Denmark and the USA, entered in 1951 when the Americans established the Thule Air Base in Greenland. This agreement meant that the original population – just under 200 Greenlandic sealers in the settlement Uummanaq – got 4 days to pack their belongings. After that they were moved 150 km to the north to Qaanaaq. Their village was levelled with the ground and burnt and they got some other houses as compensation from the Danish state. But their culture and their hunting possibilities were destroyed. Ever since, they’ve been struggling for satisfaction – economically as well as human.
Reasons for Submission	Since the forced relocation, Danish and American authorities have been trying to hide the truth about the unjust measure, but after a thorough going through the archives in the USA and in Denmark, we are now able to tell the true story. Hingitaq – The Outcasts is the untold story about small native tribe’s struggle against a foreign arrogant colonial administration, told by people who experienced this injustice themselves, more than 50 years ago. We wish to produce a creative documentary, giving the viewers an insight in the Thule sealers history and culture and their - more than 50 years - legal struggle against the Danish state. This case was settled provisionally by the Danish Supreme Court in the fall 2003. Lynx Media has become development support from the EU Media+ programme and on this background we went on 14 days of research in the north of Greenland in October 2002. We have commitments from the Greenlandic sealers – they are prepared to contribute and tell their story. We have access, among others via DR, to a comprehensive historical archive material.

Cited Work	Continuous Journey
Production Company	Peripheral Visions Film & Video Inc.
Producer / Director	Ali Kazimi
Writer	Ali Kazimi
Film/VT Editor	Graeme Ball
Archive Researcher (s)	Ali Kazimi
Top Sources of Footage	National Archives of Canada
	NARA



Duration	87 minutes
First Shown	Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, 25/04/2004
Country of Origin	Canada
Synopsis	In 1914, the Komagata Maru, a vessel with 376 immigrants from British India, became the first ship carrying migrants to be turned away by Canada. The consequences were felt throughout the British Empire. More than a history film, Continuous Journey, is a provocative, moving and multilayered film essay that interweaves photographs, newsreels, home movies and official documents to unravel a complex and little-known story. Winner, Second Place- Audience Award and Honourable Mention for Best Director, Hot Docs 2004
Reasons for Submission	"This is an impossible film to do. There are only a dozen or so photographs and no film archive - you cannot tell this story in a documentary. " This was the most common refrain from broadcasters and funders when I tried pitching the idea to them eight years ago. I, on the other hand was convinced that it was possible and also had a feeling that footage of the events of 1914 did exist. I did put out a plea on the list serve of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and got back several calls from all over North America from archivists telling me why they thought this event was never documented and if it was the footage had not survived. "It's like looking for a needle in haystack. We have been looking for 90 years and it has not shown up". But I persisted - choosing to do the archival research on my own trying to pull together every bit of footage from that era that I could to tell the story, thinking of the film as I searched and it paid off. I did find it and having done the primary document research also helped, because I could recognise what I was seeing - the footage had been mislabelled. An essential chapter of early twentieth century Canadian, British and South Asian history has now come to light. The rest of the film made by digitally weaving together home movies (my own and from my collection of estate films), still photographs, primary documents, newspaper clippings and artefacts like stamps and medals. I am quite proud of the work that has gone into this film and feel that the Focal Awards are wonderful place to submit it for consideration.

Cited Work	Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Production Company	Robert Stone Productions
Producer / Director	Robert Stone
Writer	Robert Stone
Film/VT Editor	Don Kleszy
Archive Researcher (s)	Robert Stone & Leslie Jirsa
Top Sources of Footage	Guy Morrison (private collector)
	KRON
	ABC News VideoSource
	Sacramento Historical Society
	FBI
Duration	89 minutes
First Shown	Sundance Film Festival, 18/01/2004
Country of Origin	USA
Synopsis	The kidnapping of Patty Hearst in 1974 and the activities of the SLA.
Reasons for Submission	With the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst, the SLA achieved lasting infamy as America’s most notorious and flamboyant domestic terrorists. How they came to be, their descent into the surreal outer limits of political extremism, the media frenzy they inspired, and their violent demise is revealed using a massive amount of archival footage, taped communiqués, Hollywood films, and exclusive interviews.

Cited Work	*The Guggenheim and the Baroness*
Production Company	Whitepepper
Producer / Director	Sigrid Faltin
Writer	Sigrid Faltin
Film/VT Editor	Mike Schlömer
Archive Researcher (s)	Sigrid Faltin
Top Sources of Footage	The Rebay Archives, Wessling, Germany
	The Hilla Rebay Archives, New York
	The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Archives, New York
	Library of Congress
	NARA
Duration	73 minutes
First Shown	ARTE, 12/09/2004
Country of Origin	Germany
Synopsis	We know the Guggenheim Museum, but we do not know the story behind it. The story of its founding director: Hilla Rebay. She was the “Queen of Art” in the Thirties and Fourties. Why have we never heard of her before?
Reasons for Submission	It is always difficult to make a film on a "dead" person with a lot of footage. In this case on a person who lived to art and styling. Therefore we tried to use our footage also in a way, which is equivalent to her art, the "Modern classics" . We hope the festival will appreciate this approach.

Cited Work	Dies de transicio Eps 16 Resum Transicio
Production Company	Televisio de Catalunya
Producer	Ruth Casanovas
Director	Francesc Escribano
Writer	Fulvia Nicolas
Film/VT Editor	Txeto Cano
Archive Researcher (s)	Nuria Borniquel & Nuria Roca
Top Sources of Footage	Private collections
	Institut Cinema Catala
	Television Española
	NODO
	RTBF
Duration	36 minutes x 16 episodes
First Shown	TV Catalunya, 12/07/2004
Country of Origin	Spain
Synopsis	This is a documentary series about the period of political transition (from the last days of Franco regime until the restoration of democracy) in Catalonia, through the narration, on each chapter, of the facts that were relevant news those days, exhaustively researched and told by the protagonists themselves. The series goes deeply into the social and political changes that took place during that period of time (2nd half of the 70s).
Reasons for Submission	Archive footage, mostly sourced from private collections forms a vital element of this production.

Cited Work	*Nobody's Death: The Enigma of Heinz Ches*
Production Company	Malvarrosa Media
Producer / Director	Joan Dolç
Writer	Joan Dolç
Film/VT Editor	Gerardo Leon
Archive Researcher (s)	Gimena Arensburg
Top Sources of Footage	Archivo Historico NODO
	Archivo TVE
	ITN Archive
	Chronos Media
	RBB Media
Duration	93 minutes
First Shown	Spanish cinemas, June 2004
Country of Origin	Spain
Synopsis	In 1974, the enigmatic Heinz Ches was the last person sentenced to death and executed in Franco’s Spain. Who was in fact Heinz Ches? Was he homeless? A Stasi agent? A revolutionary anarchist? Was he a Pole? A German? A stateless man? Guilty or innocent? Was it a crime by the state? Why has no one ever claimed his body? Nobody’s Death unveils all this enigmas: “He was not called Heinz Ches. His name is Georg. M. Welzel. That man is my brother...”
Reasons for Submission	In the unwritten code of the Spanish Transition period from a dictatorship to a democracy, the prohibition of poking into our recent memory was implicit. In many cases it was equivalent to an unwritten law of “final point” that forbade us from re-visiting known episodes in order to re-interpret them and place its protagonists in their corresponding place. The case of Heinz Ches is one of these episodes. By reinstating Heinz Ches with his real identity, not only do we face a debt with someone who was deprived of any signs of humanity, we also fulfil a duty towards ourselves, that of looking at ourselves in the mirror of our recent past and confronting the judgement of some facts that, not for being ignored, stop implying us morally. The footage used in the documentary has been a key tool to implement this task and duty by allowing us to reconstruct the recent past of Spain and Germany.

Cited Work	*The One, The Only, The Real Tarzan*
Production Company	Westend Film & TV Produktion GmbH
Producer	Robert Heitmann
Director	Florin Iepan
Film/VT Editor	Wolfgang Lehmann
Archive Researcher (s)	Eva Specht & Bruce Scivally
Top Sources of Footage	Producers Library Service
	Getty Images
	Sabucat


Duration	52 minutes
First Shown	ARTE, 22/08/2004
Country of Origin	Germany
Synopsis	The One, The Only, The Real Tarzan Inside view on the glory and tragedy of Johnny Weissmuller, the world class swimmer and the one and only real Tarzan. With the participation of Johnny Sheffield (BOY), Wendy Weissmuller and Johnny Weissmuller Junior. Shot in USA, Mexico and Romania.
Reasons for Submission	Archive footage plays a vital part in this story.

Cited Work	The Boys of H Company
Production Company	New Dominion Pictures LLC
Producer	Tom Naughton & Mike Sinclair
Director	Joe Wiecha
Writer	Paul Ordnung
Film/VT Editor	Dawn Goeb
Archive Researcher (s)	Carol Bornman & Cheryl Chucoski
Top Sources of Footage	NARA
	Association of American Railroads
	National Museum of Health & Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
	Getty Images, Archive Film Collection

Duration	104 minutes
First Shown	Discovery Channel, 06/06/2004
Country of Origin	USA
Synopsis	At a critical turning point in the Second World War, 80,000 Marines prepare for a daring assault on the strategic Japanese island of Iwo Jima. Confronted by overwhelming resistance, they risk everything to defeat a tyrannical enemy that has sworn to kill them and never surrender. Many of the Marines are boys no older than 20. Many will never return from the black sand beaches of Iwo Jima and pay the ultimate price for their victory.
Reasons for Submission	New Dominion Pictures has produced over 300-hours of high quality documentary television programming since 1989. These productions featuring a wide variety of projects have required countless amounts of archive footage obtained through archive houses, news organizations, law enforcement agencies, museums, societies and personal sources. For The Boys of H Company over 75-reels of combat film shot on location during the battle of Iwo Jima was obtained through the U.S. National Archives and Record Administration. In addition, the project incorporated seldom seen footage from the National Museum of Health and Medicine and The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. New Dominion Pictures had all of this rare World War II era film footge cleaned and transferred to HD format. Thanks to the Boys of H Company, this remarkable footage is now digitally preserved on HD masters.

Cited Work	The Souvenirs of Mr. X
Production Company	Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer	Markus Glaser
Director	Arash T. Riahi
Writer	Arash T. Riahi
Film/VT Editor	Arash T. Riahi
Archive Researcher (s)	Arash T. Riahi
Top Sources of Footage	Amateur footage in private collection




Duration	98 minutes
First Shown	Diagonale, March 2004
Country of Origin	Austria
Synopsis	A filmmaker finds two boxes of Super-8 films of an unknown amateur at a flea market. He goes on an investigative journey to find this person and dives into the wonderful, obsessive universe of amateur film with its own rules, competitions and the passionate love for the moving images. The Souvenirs of Mr X is an homage to amateur film-makers, their dream of cinema and their desire to find, in the unspectacular, everyday life, the truly special.
Reasons for Submission	The Souvenirs of Mr X is a cinematic search for the essence of the amateur film. I got the idea for the film in the summer of 1998 when I found two boxes of Super 8 film at a fl ea market. Overjoyed with my discovery, I hurried home and discovered to my delight that I had indeed uncovered a real “treasure”. 60 rolls full of family celebrations, holiday sequences but also home-made ‘feature films’. As the years went by I collected over 3000 of these amateur films ... The aim of The Souvenirs of Mr X is to pay homage to the different sorts of fi lm- makers who created these works. About the movie “Mr.X” is intended to be a symbolic figure, a representative of the normal citizen and his dream of ‘making movies’. His films are typical examples of the desires of many people: to see themselves on the screen and to make the unspectacular daily events of their lives something special, to make “movies” even if they are only shown in their own living room, and the audience consists only of their friends. A tribute to the moments created by enthusiastic film-dreamers, which have always been denied public recognition. To the many hours they spent working on their movies, and to the film jewels created in this way, sometimes funny and sometimes moving... though they generally end up in the archives of the trash can.

Cited Work	The Way We Were Srs 3 Childhood
Production Company	Anglia Television
Producer / Director	Alison Starsmore
Writer	Alison Starsmore
Film/VT Editor	Steve Clinch
Archive Researcher (s)	David Cleveland & Alison Starsmore
Top Sources of Footage	East Anglian Film Archive
	Holkham Collection
	Barnardo's


Duration	24 x 8 episodes
First Shown	ITV1 Regional, 15/01/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	This episode of Anglia TV’s highly successful archive series features four personal and very diverse accounts of childhood in the 20th century, with one thing in common. Each of the speakers featured in amateur films. Though they represent very different decades, social and economic backgrounds, all the interviewees speak in touching detail about mothers and fathers, parental love and loss, sibling relationships and the many small but significant moments in their young lives. Selecting from vast, often uncatalogued, collections of film, producer Alison Starsmore brings social history to life.
Reasons for Submission	This is a single episode from Anglia TV’s once innovative, now often copied, series The Way We Were, notable for the gentle and precise emphasis on personal recollection, exploring the emotional context and social background of these amateur films. Working in close partnership with the East Anglian Film Archive at the University of East Anglia, this production was one of the first to recognise the important social significance of material often overlooked by broadcasters. Through careful selection, logging and painstaking research, these often vast and uncatalogued collections were ordered into coherent and authentic true stories. With the support and co-operation of the families concerned, this information is then given to the archive as support material for the interpretation, understanding and study of film by film archive and history students. The programme is in its fourth Anglia series and in 2004 was rolled out across the ITV regional network.

Cited Work	Totes aquelles cançons
Production Company	Televisio de Catalunya
Producer	Joan Pavon
Director	Angel Casas
Writer	Joan Ribera
Film/VT Editor	David Burillo
Archive Researcher (s)	Montse Fortino
Top Sources of Footage	TVE Archives
	Private collections



Duration	34 minutes x 13 episodes
First Shown	Televisio de Catalunya, 03/10/2004
Country of Origin	Spain
Synopsis	This documentary series tells why and how, many men and women, from different contexts and professions, belonging to several locations within the Catalan-speaking regions, contributed to create a popular movement for straightening and normalizing the use of the Catalan language, through "modern singing", despite such contrary political circumstances.
Reasons for Submission	Archive footage used effectively.

Cited Work	When Hitler Invaded Britain
Production Company	Granada Bristol
Producer / Director	Steven Clarke
Writer	Steven Clarke
Film/VT Editor	Tony Palmer & Imogen Pollard
Archive Researcher (s)	Martin Willis
Top Sources of Footage	ITN Archive, Reuters Collection
	Images of War
	ITN Archive, British Pathe Collection
	World Backgrounds

Duration	90 minutes
First Shown	ITV1, 04/07/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	This feature length drama documentary tells the true story of just how close Britain came to German Invasion in the summer of 1940. The story is told through the dramatised first person accounts of key eye witnesses on both sides, as well as archive footage from the time. Interwoven with this gripping true tale is the unfolding story of what might have been: the horrors of invasion and occupation, culminating in the chilling image of Hitler triumphant on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
Reasons for Submission	When Hitler Invaded Britain uses real archive from the time as the basis for its highly creative, chilling ‘flash forward’ visions of life under the Nazi jackboot. Actual colour footage of Hitler, for instance, was combined with specially shot material of Buckingham Palace and CGI to produce the image of Hitler truimphant on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Colour footage of London was ‘Nazified’ with CGI flags. Elsewhere in the film, powerful archive of real events is used to great effect, intercut with specially shot drama sequences.

Cited Work	Al Murray's Road to Berlin Eps. *The Push for Paris*
Production Company	ITN Factual
Producer	Ludo Graham
Director / Writer	Tom McCarthy
Film/VT Editor	Rick Barker
Archive Researcher (s)
Top Sources of Footage	ITN Archive, British Pathe Collection
	Images of War
	George Stevens / Library of Congress


Duration	30 minutes x 10 episodes
First Shown	Discovery Channel, 17/11/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	To follow
Reasons for Submission	To follow

Cited Work	Revealed: The Great Escape
Production Company	Windfall Films
Producer	Mark Radice
Director	Mark Radice
Film/VT Editor
Archive Researcher (s)	Mark Radice
Top Sources of Footage	NARA
	Imperial War Museum

Duration	48 minutes
First Shown	Five, 17/03/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	Producer/Director Mark Radice looked into the story, and discovered that one of the three tunnels dug by the prisoners – codenamed “Dick” – had never been discovered by the German guards. Furthermore, the tunnel still lay hidden underground at the remains of the former POW camp in what is today Poland. After a few telephone calls and a DV-filmed recce trip, a team of archaeologists was assembled, Polish contractors engaged, and an enormous hole in highly treacherous slippery sand was dug in a rainy Polish forest last September. Throw in a visit by three, old boys who took part in the Escape sixty years ago, and you have some pretty dramatic results! The archaeological dig acts as a narrative spine throughout the film, and helps to tell a well-known story in a new and different way. Blessed with such a compelling story and engaging interviewees, the final film was a great success. The veterans’ stories of the Heath Robinson-like preparations, and the night of the Escape were illustrated by drama reconstructions shot on Super-8 in Poland and the UK.
Reasons for Submission	The brief was to find a new angle to tell one of the best-known stories of World War Two – “The Great Escape”, the mass breakout immortalised in the 1963 film starring Steve McQueen. The compelling story and dramatic reconstructions went some way towards fulfilling this brief but the use of archive footage greatly enhanced the reality of the story and quality of the programme.

Cited Work	*D-Day: The Ultimate Conflict*
Production Company	Windfall Films
Producer	Ana Paula Lloyd
Director
Film/VT Editor
Archive Researcher (s)	Polly Pettit
Top Sources of Footage	TBA

Duration	TBA
First Shown	Five, 2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	TBA
Reasons for Submission	TBA

Cited Work	Empire Warriors Eps. The Jewish War
Production Company	BBC
Producer	Peter Molloy
Director	Bill Treharne Jones
Film/VT Editor	Paul Rapley
Archive Researcher (s)	Barry Purkis & Angela Spindler-Brown
Top Sources of Footage	British Empire & Commonwealth Museum
	Imperial War Museum
	ITN Archive, British Pathe Collection
	British Movietonews
	Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
Duration	60 minutes x 4 episodes
First Shown	BBC2, 19/11/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	Empire Warriors - a four part series for BBC 2. Each film in this series tells the story of a 'war on terror' during the final phase of the British Empire. From the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946 to the retreat from Aden in 1967, British forces found themselves up against a new enemy, modern guerrilla warfare. Featuring unique archive and first hand-testimony from the security forces and guerrillas of the time, Empire Warriors tells the inside story of four defining encounters: Palestine 1946-47, Malaya 1948-60, Kenya 1952-56 and Aden, 1967.
Reasons for Submission	Empire Warriors combined first hand accounts by participants in Britain's ‘small wars’ with unique amateur footage and stills shot by those who were there. Footage gathered not only from those individuals and their families but also from the archives and museums in Britain and around the world that have carefully collected those original records of the past. The archive footage was a central part of the series enabling unknown or unfamiliar stories to be told, such as the sending of the first letter bomb, mistakenly opened by the brother of a British serviceman, the unique colour footage shot by a Special Branch officer of surrendering communist guerrillas in Malaya, the stills of casualties in Malaya or the ‘unused’ newsreel pictures of the anti Jewish riots in the North West of England following the murder of 2 British soldiers in Palestine during the British mandate. The archive footage was used as an integral part of documenting a past which still resonates with current events.

Cited Work	Forgotten Pilots
Production Company	Quintessence Films
Producer	Robin Toyne
Director / Writer	Matthew Lingard
Film/VT Editor	John Wabe
Archive Researcher (s)	Matthew Lingard
Top Sources of Footage	Imperial War Museum
	British Movietonews
	RAF Hendon
	ITN Archive, Reuters Collection

Duration	24 minutes x 3 episodes
First Shown	ITV West, 25/09/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	This is the story of the ATA, a unique civilian air force made up of men and women pilots that delivered 300,000 aircraft to front line RAF bases during the Second World War. Told through the first hand testimonies of these private pilots, this programme explores the history of “the ancient and tattered aviators” from the heady days of pre-war flying and exploration, through the challenges of the Battle of Britain. We learn of the challenges and dangers of flying “anything to anywhere” with no radio and we hear accounts of the tragic death of, the celebrated aviatrix, Amy Johnson.
Reasons for Submission	The series was commissioned by OTV West and although there is some relevant regional content it is a story of national importance and we would like it to be shown to a wider public. It contains many stills and a of archive footage of ATA pilots which has not been seen before. As many of the pilots are getting on in years we feel privileged to have bought their story to the screen and hope that by entering the first programme in the Focal Awards they will receive some acknowledgement and recognition for the vital job they carried out during the war.

Cited Work	Premiers Regards (First Sights) *Eps 1 La Naissance du Cinema*
Production Company	LBMG
Producer	Bertrand Cazenave & Georges Dybman
Director / Writer	Marc Sandberg & Laurent Préyale
Film/VT Editor
Archive Researcher (s)
Top Sources of Footage	Cinémathèque Française
	Gaumont Pathé Archives
	Association Lumière
	Indépendants du Premier Siècle
	INA média
Duration	52 minutes x 4 episodes
First Shown	Ciné Cinémas, Oct 2004
Country of Origin	France
Synopsis	Through the correspondence between two young people – an American woman and a French man – who met at the 1889 Exposition Universelle held in Paris, this documentary series investigates the exciting challenge between the American and French newly born cinema industry. First Sights series follows the crazy and amazing genesis of the 7th Art, its inventors, its developments, …over the first 50 years of the XXth Century.
Reasons for Submission	More than a programme, First Sights series is an adventure in itself: the birth, the growing up of a dream explored on both sides of the Atlantic is, in its own, a wonderful and amazing history. As are the common work of two specialists, Marc Sandberg and Laurent Preyale, who studied the subject during 15 years; the abundant illustration combining numerous extracts of both masterpieces and rare films produced during this period; the personal involvement of the producers who made this project a TV programme.

Cited Work	*Auschwitz: The Forgotten Evidence*
Production Company	Flashback Television
Producer	Taylor Downing
Director / Writer	Lucy Carter
Film/VT Editor	Gareth Johnson
Archive Researcher (s)	Emma Bolton & Jacqui Edwards
Top Sources of Footage	Archive and Visual Sources
	NARA
	Imperial War Museum
	Netherlands Filmmuseum
	Frau Riehl
Duration	60 minutes
First Shown	Channel 4, 29/11/2004
Country of Origin	UK
Synopsis	When an Allied photo-reconnaissance plane flew over southern Poland in the summer of 1944, it took extraordinary images of the Nazi’s most evil extermination camp, Auschwitz. But the photos were never analysed at the time, just simply filed away. Using these photos, Auschwitz – The Forgotten Evidence takes an entirely new look at the Holocaust, asking what did the Allies know about the Nazi extermination camp and what could they have done to stop the killing? Using a combination of interviews with survivors and expert historians Auschwitz – The Forgotten Evidence takes a new view on one the greatest crimes in history.
Reasons for Submission	Through the use of original footage captured by the Red Army during the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, and authentic stills taken by SS guards in 1944, Auschwitz – The Forgotten Evidence details the Nazi’s most evil extermination camp during World War II. However, it is the use of the aerial photographs, taken by Allied reconnaissance planes during 1944, that most clearly depicts the true horror of Auschwitz. Most of these aerial photos had never been broadcast before, so using computer generated imagery techniques, the photos bring the horrific events that took place to life, as they unfolded. It’s possible to see in detail how the SS organised their factory of death, in which 12,000 people were being murdered daily. For example, on arrival of one particular transport, SS guards selecting fit prisoners to be tattooed with a number and sent to work in the camp can clearly be seen.

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