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Cited Work |
Dimensió Dalí |
Production Company |
Media 3.14 |
Producer |
Joan Ubeda |
Director |
Susi Marquès |
| Writer |
Eli Pons |
| Film/VT Editor |
Maria di Maso |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Monica Lopez & Montserrat Bartuí |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Footage from Science Congress at Dalí Museum |
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Televisión Española |
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BBC Motion Gallery |
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INA Media |
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Mike Wallace (1950 Dalí Interview) |
Duration |
53 minutes |
First Shown |
Avro, Netherlands 12/09/04 |
Country of Origin |
Spain |
Synopsis |
Salvador Dali had an obsession for science that lasted all his life and that can be traced to his paintings. He was a compulsive reader of scientific literature, from psychoanalysis to quantum mechanics, from mathematics to genetics. Moreover, he strived all his life to meet relevant scientists: he met Sigmund Freud, J.D. Watson, and many others. The scientists were surprised to discover that beyond the façade of a clownish showman there was a genial artist with whom they get into entertain meaningful discussions. This film reveals an unknown aspect of one of the most important painters of 20th century.
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Reasons for Submission |
This film uses previously unaired archival footage of one of Dalí’s last appearances (a Science Congress at the Dali Museum in 1985) as its narrative thread. The film opens and closes at the congress, and in between it tells the fascinating story of Dalí’s obsession with science. The film includes footage that was readily available but had been overlooked, such as the Panorama interview by Malcom Muggeridge; footage practically unknown of, as the Mike Wallace interview in the 1958; and the last interview by Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine. It also features the first known image of Dalí showing an interest on science, a photograph form 1928 in which he appears with a copy of the SCIENCE and INVENTION magazine under his arm. And with a clue from a 12-second bit of footage, we have been able to establish that Dalí’s signature was directly influenced by a scientific image. |
Cited Work |
Looking for Sophia |
Production Company |
Felix Film with ZDF, ARTE, AVRO, RAI Trade in collaboration with Rai Teche. Associated Producer, Surf Film |
Producer |
Silvia and Laura Pettini & Massimo Vigliar |
| Director |
Roberto Olla, Danila Satta |
Writer |
Roberto Olla, Laura Pettini, Silvia Pettini |
| Film/VT Editor |
Danilo Perticara |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Roberto Olla, Laura Pettini, Silvia Pettini |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Clips from movies |
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Rai Teche |
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Duration |
52 minutes |
First Shown |
RAI Uno - Sept 2004 |
Country of Origin |
Italy |
Synopsis |
Sophia Loren: her maiden name is Sofia Scicolone, but who is she really? Sophia is like a friend for us. Sophia made great efforts and faced up all difficulties.We'd like to say that Sophia is a mystery to discover, is a secret we must know: Sophia is the soul of a century and the incarnation of a dream. |
Reasons for Submission |
Effective use of archive footage and feature film clips to illustrate the life of an icon. |
Cited Work |
Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin' |
Production Company |
Real Hawk Productions Inc. |
Producer / Director |
Anne Pick |
Writer |
Digby Cook |
| Film/VT Editor |
Greg Hopen, John Roy, Greg West |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Elizabeth Klinck |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
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Amulet Pictures - The Hawk |
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Music Films LLC |
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Dick Clark Media Archives |
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National Film Board of Canada |
Duration |
66 minutes |
First Shown |
CTV, Canada -20/08/2004 |
Country of Origin |
Canada |
Synopsis |
In “Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin’ “ we spend a roller coaster year with The Hawk, the Arkansas rocker who brought rock and roll to Canada in 1959, became the King of Yonge Street and saw his Hawks morph into The Band. Following the story from his original cancer diagnosis through to its cure we get all of Ronnie Hawkins: the Idol, the Family Man, and The Patient staring down “The Big Rocker in the sky.” Alternately the consummate Southern gentleman, a foul-mouthed “old boy,” an unparalleled storyteller, a loving husband, stubborn, vulnerable and dependent, afraid, defiant, one of the funniest men that ever lived, and the Pope of rock and roll: it’s Ronnie Hawkins, warts and all, like he’s never been seen before. |
Reasons for Submission |
Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin’ is a fine example of the successful balance and integration between a widely sourced variety of historic archival footage with cinema verité video shot specifically for the production. The collaborative efforts between one of Canada’s leading biographical directors Anne Pick and highly skilled archive researcher, Elizabeth Klinck enabled this film to be a visual feast of historical footage blended together with “up-close and personal” footage captured by cinematographer Dennis Beauchamp, to tell the story of a dynamic rocker from his musical roots in Arkansas, to the height of his career in Toronto, to one of the toughest personal journeys in his life. The merging of old footage with new, particularly the clever sequences at the beginning and end of the show, is not only artful story telling, it creates an upbeat rhythm for the audience throughout the course of the film. |
Cited Work |
Judgement Day: Images of Heaven and Hell
Episode: Heaven |
Production Company |
Seventh Art Productions |
Producer |
Phil Grabsky |
| Director |
Ben Harding |
| Film/VT Editor |
Phil Reynolds |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Ben Harding |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Bridgeman Art Library |
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Tate Gallery |
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AKG |
Duration |
30 minutes x 3 episodes |
First Shown |
Five, UK 26/11/04 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
Tim Marlow explores how different ideas of afterlife have been depicted in art throughout the world, from the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead to Stanley Spencer's vision of heaven as a small English town. |
Reasons for Submission |
The series had an ambitious aim: to tell the story of how artists had depicted the afterlife in religions worldwide, through history. Archive images were used with precision and restraint (the budget was very tight!) to illustrate complex, challenging ideas for a popular audience. |
Cited Work |
Sneakers |
Production Company |
Submarine |
Producer |
Bruno Felix |
Director |
Femke Wolting |
| Writer |
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Archive Researcher (s) |
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Duration |
52 minutes |
First Shown |
VPRO, Netherlands, 23/04/04 |
Country of Origin |
Netherlands |
Synopsis |
Sneakers is a documentary by Femke Wolting (NL) about the development Of a "poor black man's shoe" to one of the most important icons of modern lifestyle and subculture identity. The graffiti like design of the film - where commercials, photos and other film- and video fragments blend together - takes the viewer behind the scenes of the colourful world of sneakers, inhabited by designers, brand strategists and sneaker collectors. |
Reasons for Submission |
Sneakers is the intriguing tale of the contemporary sport shoe that has developed into an identity icon worldwide. Ninety-five percent of the sport shoes purchased are not used for participation in sports. So what are they for, then? For subcultures like hip-hop and skateboarding, the sneaker already left the sporting world long ago. In the documentary we see how sneakers have come to dominate certain subcultures, how they’ve made the crossover to the mainstream massconsumers market and how sneakercompanies bring in haute couture fashion designers to create special collections, in order to seduce fashion victims. Design drawings, feature film excerpts and advertisements are animated in a unique style to give a behind the scenes look at the origin of sport shoes. Old commercials, from Spike Lee for Nike, for example, along with film excerpts from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Do the Right Thing and other films illustrate the rise of sneaker culture. |
Cited Work |
The Way We Were
Eps. Flying |
Production Company |
GNWTV / ABC |
Producer |
Jane Cameron |
Director |
Julia Kennedy |
| Writer |
George Dodd |
| Film/VT Editor |
Ilter Cimilli |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Wendy Borchers |
| Top Sources of Footage |
ABC TV Archives |
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Public Domain |
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Trans Australian Airlines - QANTAS |
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Ansett Airlines Archives |
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Duration |
55 minutes x 10 episodes |
First Shown |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 17/07/2004 |
Country of Origin |
Australia |
Synopsis |
Has flying lost its glamour? This programme spans the experience of flying for all Australian's from first flight to jumbo air-travel. Flying has been critically important in the development of Australia - its inland, its international connections. Australians were breaking long journey records from the very beginning. This programme touches on some of the milestones in Australian flight history through the stories of people who were there! We meet one of Charles Kingsford Smith's first pupils, Nancy Bird. She was Australia's first female pilot who flew in the outback without radio or radar for backup. We meet a host of hostesses who even tell mile-high club stories. We look at flying from the way we were, to the way we are. |
Reasons for Submission |
The challenge was to make an entertainment programme from the riches of the ABC Archives, combining interviews and footage in a totally fresh way. The key to The Way We Were is to have the audience share the changes that have occurred through time. Change in social mores, technology, the way we spoke, the way we reacted to the topics picked for the ten episodes. Mark Trevorrow is a seasoned comedy performer, but this was a new role that tapped into his journalist roots. The programme was recorded in front of an audience and their laughter was sometimes most unexpected. But it is this immediate response to the footage and the interviewees that make The Way We Were a special show. |
Cited Work |
Julian Bream 'My Life In Music' |
Production Company |
Music On Earth Productions Ltd |
Producer |
Judy Caine |
Director / Writer |
Paul Balmer |
| Film/VT Editor |
Paul Balmer |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Judy Caine & Julian Bream |
| Top Sources of Footage |
BBC Motion Gallery |
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CBC Canada |
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ITN Archive, British Pathé Collection |
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ITN Archive, Granada Collection |
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Film Images |
Duration |
www.musiconearth.co.uk, 120 minutes |
First Shown |
15/01/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
In his 70th year Julian Bream tells his remarkable story with contributions from John Williams, Peter Pears, Igor Stravinsky, William Walton, George Malcolm and The Julian Bream Consort. Illustrated with over an hour of complete archive musical performance. Julian is the greatest classic guitarist of the 20th Century, he also quietly re invented the renaissance lute and brought it to a new audience. ... "Outstanding" (BBC Music Magazine); "A Magical 2-hours" (Classical Music); "Highly compelling viewing" (International Record Review); "Excellent" (DVD Laser Disc - USA); "The finest film contribution to the classic guitar ever" (Graham Wade); "Masterly" (Sir David Attenborough). |
Reasons for Submission |
Julian Bream - My Life in Music combines two elements. Julian Bream telling his career story and the best archive performances of his work over 50 years. Archive film is also used for contextual reference. We use complete archive clips of 3- 9 minutes rather than brief frustrating excerpts. Music On Earth are striving through the Music On Earth special editions to conserve in digital form and in an appropriate context, some of the most important musical archive of the last 110 years. This is volume 2 Volume 1 Stephane Grappelli' 'A Life In The Jazz Century' was BAFTA nominated in 2002. |
Cited Work |
The World of Nat King Cole |
Production Company |
Double Jab Productions |
Producer |
Kari Lia |
Director |
Ian Hunt |
| Film/VT Editor |
McDonald Brown |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Mark Tinkler |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Clips & Footage |
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Research Video |
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Historic Films |
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Getty Images |
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H.G. Associates, USA (For Nat King Cole's own TV series) |
Duration |
89 minutes |
First Shown |
BBC4, 24/12/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
Nat King Cole was the world’s first international superstar. His music made millions around the planet dance, laugh, love and smile. Using a unique combination of rare and unseen archive including home movies, performances, and interviews, The World of Nat King Cole sheds an intimate, new light on the man behind the voice whilst conveying his importance in the civil rights movement. Interviewees include: Stevie Wonder, André 3000 Benjamin of Outkast, Whoopi Goldberg, Carlos Santana, Harry Connick Jr., Tony Bennett, BB King, Jools Holland, Quincy Jones, Baz Luhrmann, Harry Belafonte, Isaac Hayes Eartha Kitt, and the entire Cole family. |
Reasons for Submission |
For the first time, Nat King Cole footage was sourced from around the world and not just the usual US TV show of The Nat King Cole Show, resulting in footage of Nat never seen before since it’s original screening in it’s native country including Japan, Cuba, Peru & Italy. Also first screening of Nat performing with & without the “white” make-up forced in him by producers, as well as his own home movies and rare footage of Nat performing from colour videotape. The World of Nat King Cole offered unique problems for the sourcing of archive material: aside from the usual problem of re-arcing all the images from 4x3 to 16x9, this production was made for High-Definition which together with the requirement for the documentary to be sold worldwide, meant there had to be a more delicate balancing act than usual between costs, quality & editorial needs. |
Cited Work |
Grumpy Old Men
Eps 1, Series 2 |
Production Company |
Liberty Bell Productions |
Producer / Director |
Alan Lewens |
| Film/VT Editor |
Howard Billingham |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Marina Fonseca |
| Top Sources of Footage |
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Duration |
30 minutes |
First Shown |
BBC2, 03/09/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
35-54 year old men are the grumpiest of any group in Britain. The original team is joined by Jeremy Clarkson, AA Gill, Neil Kinnock and others to rant about everything from holidays to dogs, from the start of the football season to political correctness. |
Reasons for Submission |
This programme use archival footage to illustrate contemporary comments in a clever and entertaining way. |
Cited Work |
Peppers and Nudes - The Photographer Edward Weston |
Production Company |
Parnass Film |
Producer |
Sabine Pollmeier |
Director |
Joachim Haupt |
| Writer |
Sabine Pollmeier |
| Film/VT Editor |
Gisela
Castronari- Jaensch |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Sabine Pollmeier & Joachim Haupt |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Footage Farm |
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Duration |
26 mins |
First Shown |
ARTE, 28/08/2004 |
Country of Origin |
Germany |
Synopsis |
He discovers beauty and abstraction in places where nobody had seen them before - in a pepper for example - and he never ceases doing nude photography. His photographs become icons of the modern age and influence whole generations of photographers. A portrait of the American photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958). |
Reasons for Submission |
Our film does not simply tell the life story of a great photographer. We create an ambiance, leave room for fantasy and discovery. Combining archive material, interviews and slow camera movements the film has its own very special rhythm. |
Cited Work |
Cinema Dali |
Production Company |
Televisio de Catalunya |
Producer |
Francesc J.
Gonzalez |
Director |
Josep
Rovira |
| Writer |
Josep Rovira |
| Film/VT Editor |
Jordi Diaz |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Teresa Ibars |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Fundacio Dali |
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BBC Motion Gallery |
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Filmoteca Espanola |
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INA Média |
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Gaumont Pathé Archives |
Duration |
52 minutes |
First Shown |
Televisio de Catalunya, 25/01/2004 |
Country of Origin |
Spain |
Synopsis |
Salvador Dali was a renowned surrealist painter whose unbridled creative ambition overstepped the limits of the mid-20th century. Dali explored a wide variety of art forms and made significant contributions to the world of cinema. But his greatest contribution in the form of an entirely new film genre came when he decided to step in front of the lens instead of filming from behind the camera. |
Reasons for Submission |
Effective use of archive footage. |
Cited Work |
Tapies Tea |
Production Company |
Televisio de Catalunya |
Producer |
Elisabet
Subiros |
Director |
Carolina
Tubau |
| Writer |
Carolina Tubau |
| Film/VT Editor |
Emili Martinez |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Maica
Cabedo
& Clara
Chavarria |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Tapies Family |
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Mario Sol |
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Reuters |
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Television Española |
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RENFE |
Duration |
64 minutes |
First Shown |
Televisio de Catalunya, 25/01/2004 |
Country of Origin |
Spain |
Synopsis |
The programme originates from a conversation at tea time with Antoni Tapies and his wife Teresa, as in a ceremony that partakes of both the mundane and sacred. Using this ritual as an excuse, the camera establishes a complicity which breaks the distance between the artist and the public, leading us into his spaces, his studios, his library, his artistic roots, his beginnings and his thoughts. |
Reasons for Submission |
Effective use of archive footage. |
Cited Work |
The Way We Were
Eps. 5 Dancing |
Production Company |
GNW TV Ltd/ABC Television |
Producer |
Pam Swain |
Exec Producer |
Ted Robinson |
| Writer |
George Dodd |
| Film/VT Editor |
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Archive Researcher (s) |
Wendy Borchers |
| Top Sources of Footage |
ABC News and Documentaries: 4 Corners |
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You Can't Stop the Murders: Buena Vista International Movie |
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ABC Documentaries: Edge of the Outback, A Big Country |
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ABC Entertainment: Six O Clock Rock, Countdown |
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Duration |
54 minutes x 10 episodes |
First Shown |
ABC Television, 24/07/2004 |
Country of Origin |
Australia |
Synopsis |
We explore all the popular dance fads from waltzing to jitterbugging, disco dancing and beyond. We dig up some archival film treasures: from debutantes to news reports warning of shocking new dance crazes sweeping the nation. |
Reasons for Submission |
The series explored Australia's history and popular culture through an entertaining use of footage from Australia's television history. |
Cited Work |
How Soaps Changed The World |
Production Company |
Granada Factuals North |
Producer |
Chris Salt |
Director |
Chris Salt |
| Film/VT Editor |
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Archive Researcher (s) |
Camilla Wheeler |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Granada Television |
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BBC Motion Gallery |
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Channel 4 |
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ITN Archive |
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Carlton TV |
Duration |
120 minutes |
First Shown |
Channel 4, 17/07/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
Former ITV boss David Liddiment looks at the monster he helped create as he examines the rise and rise of the British soap opera and lifts the lid on what's become a multi million pound industry. But can the public have too much of a good thing? Liddiment, himself once executive producer of Coronation Street, looks back at the defining moments in the history of TV's most popular genre, including the birth of the Street and the influence of Brookside, the impact of foreign soaps like Dallas and Neighbours and the TV soap wars caused by EastEnders. |
Reasons for Submission |
Soap is a TV genre often featured in pop culture documentaries. But we believed it was a phenomena which needed serious scrutiny - not just dealt with in another list show of best soap moments. To do this we recruited David Liddiment; we believe his involvement raised this examination of soap to a much higher level. Here was a man who had played an enormous part in making Britain soap-mad. Using his experience and contacts he was able to give a unique, insider view in to what makes soaps work (and in the case of shows like Eldorado, not work). The programme merited a special edition of the Radio Times - featuring covers of four different soap icons - not bad for a one off documentary on Channel Four. |
Cited Work |
UK Music Hall of Fame
Eps. The 70s |
Production Company |
Endemol UK |
Producer |
Malcolm Gerri & Lisa Chapman |
Director |
Martin Callahan |
| Film/VT Editor |
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Archive Researcher (s) |
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Duration |
60 minutes x 6 episodes |
First Shown |
Channel 4, 10/10/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
The UK Music Hall of Fame saw the British public celebrating the greatest music legends of all time. A panel comprising respected artists from all eras, music journalists, broadcasters and music industry executives was established to create shortlists of artists spanning five musical decades- the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. The series took an in depth look at each of these decades and called on the British public to vote for which of the nominated performers should join the UK Music Hall of Fame. |
Reasons for Submission |
Entertaining use of archive footage. |
Cited Work |
The Voice
Eps. The Male Voice |
Production Company |
Endemol UK |
Producer |
Malcolm Gerrie & Alan Lewens |
Director |
Jeremy Marre |
| Film/VT Editor |
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Archive Researcher (s) |
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Duration |
60 minutes x 3 episodes |
First Shown |
Channel 4, 11/01/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
The Voice was a three part documentary series celebrating the greatest vocal talents of the twentieth century. Combining archive performance and specially shot interviews, the voice profiled artists who have turned the pages of musical history and set vocal standards. |
Reasons for Submission |
Effective use of archive footage. |
Cited Work |
The South Bank Show
Eps. Iggy Pop |
Production Company |
ITV/LWT |
Producer / Director |
Leo Burley |
Writer |
Leo Burley |
| Film/VT Editor |
Peter Lindley |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Phil Windeatt & Pauline Stride |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Film Images |
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Research Video |
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Duration |
52 minutes |
First Shown |
ITV1, 05/12/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
Iggy Pop is an iconic figure in the history of rock music and for many he is the archetypal rock and roll star. With his original band The Stooges he came storming out of Detroit at the end of the 60s, trashing the ideals of the hippie movement and laying the ground rules for the punk revolution that followed in his wake. The music of the Stooges and Iggy’s solo work such as Lust for Life and The Passenger (made in collaboration with David Bowie), has been cited as a major inspiration by artists as diverse as The Sex Pistols, Blondie, Curt Cobain and The White Stripes. Now nearly 60 Iggy has survived mental institutions, drug addiction and any number of life-threatening stage performances and he is still going strong. Last year, 30 years after their last gig, he reunited with the Stooges to huge critical acclaim and this film follows the band on the European leg of their tour and charts the remarkable career of the indestructible Iggy Pop. |
Reasons for Submission |
I like this show for a number of reasons - for a start it's not a safe subject and the interviewer and interviewee, although clearly from different ends of the art world, hit it off. We really learn something about Iggy and his long career. The producer/director Leo Burley (his last show for us) links the correct archive footage perfectly to what he has shot, a skill helped by an experienced editor Peter Lindley. Leo struck gold, he filmed the recent Stooges tour and clearly it was a success, unlike many other similar reunions. This meant we didn't have to use acres of other people's concert footage but could concentrate on the best of the archive film that's around. Claire Holland found some excellent stills as well. So I just think it's strong on a number of fronts, and the critics liked it as well. I think the show looks good, all the production team made major contributions, it's pacy and on a tight budget that had to include some expensive American archive footage. Phil Windeatt |
Cited Work |
Karl Jenkins Offeren Heddwch |
Production Company |
Opus TF |
Producer / Director |
Hefin Owen |
Writer |
Karl Jenkins |
| Film/VT Editor |
Chris Lawrence |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Luned Phillips |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Images of War |
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APTN Library |
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Opus Television |
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Duration |
70 minutes |
First Shown |
S4C, 09/04/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
A moving and thought provoking televisual presentation of Karl Jenkins’s Mass for Peace, with Archive material inter-cut with an exhilarating live performance. L’Homme Armé is a multi – faith work that embraces all religions, incorporating texts from the Mahàbhàrata and Tennyson, as well as the standard mass movements and the Muslim call to prayer. The composer himself conducted this performance and it was unique in that archive war footage was projected behind the performers. Recorded in St David’s Hall, Cardiff with the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera on the occasion of the Composer’s 60th birthday. |
Reasons for Submission |
Karl Jenkins’ Mass for Peace has become musically ‘the new Messiah’ being performed by choral societies the length and breadth of Britain. In the recent Classic FM Hall of Fame, the work was voted no 8, the highest ever for a living composer. With the current debate on the moral grounds for going to war in Iraq, this recording is television’s opportunity to make a different and moving contribution. First Minister Rhodri Morgan spent the first 10 minutes of the Welsh Cabinet meeting the following morning discussing the programme. Dr Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales responded ’Music can sometimes reach parts of us which no other medium can, and my hope is that this programme will help transform the attitudes of all of us to issues of peace and justice.’ An English language version of the programme is available but not yet broadcast. |
Cited Work |
The Real Mary Poppins |
Production Company |
Endemol UK |
Producer |
Malcolm Gerrie, Pamela Esterson |
Director |
Nigel Wattis |
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Archive Researcher (s) |
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Duration |
60 minutes |
First Shown |
ITV1, 26/12/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
The Real Mary Poppins, a South Bank Show special reveals the troubled and complex life of her creator, Pamela Travers, Walt Disney’s 16 year struggle to bring Poppins to the big screen and how Poppins herself was born from ancient myths. Pamela Travers (whose real name was Helen Lyndon Goff) was born in Australia in 1899 and The Real Mary Poppins lays bare the mysteries of Travers’ personal life from her roots in rural Queensland to her precocious writing talent - including erotic verse - that was unleashed by her father’s early death and suicidal mother; her tempestuous love affairs with both men and women her fascination with mysticism and quest for spirituality and her unconventional life as a single mother. |
Reasons for Submission |
Effective use of archive footage |
Cited Work |
John Lennon's Jukebox |
Production Company |
Endemol UK |
Producer |
Malcolm Gerrie |
Director |
Chris Walker |
| Film/VT Editor |
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Archive Researcher (s) |
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Duration |
60 minutes |
First Shown |
ITV1, 14/03/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
A few years ago a portable jukebox was discovered which belonged to John Lennon in the 60's. The jukebox contains fascinating track list, written in Lennon's own handwriting, of 40 records including soul, R&B and rock and roll. These were the songs that shaped John Lennon's musical education and they reveal many of the original sources of inspiration for his longer song writing. |
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Cited Work |
Stars in Memory: Safia Chamia |
Production Company |
Tunisia TV |
Producer / Director |
Mokhtar Lajimi |
Writer |
Mokhtar Lajimi |
| Film/VT Editor |
Joustina Film |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Wahid Braham |
| Top Sources of Footage |
ERTT Archives |
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Gaumont Pathé Archive |
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Duration |
27 minutes |
First Shown |
Tunisia TV, 21/10/2004 |
Country of Origin |
Tunisia |
Synopsis |
A biographical documentary entitled Stars in Memories. It’s about a famous Tunisian star, Safia CHAMIA who was born in Syria in 1932 and died in Tunis in 2004. Her family moved to Tunisia, after which she spent a couple of years in Paris. She was well loved in Tunisia as well as in many other Arabic countries. She gave a lot to the Tunisian song. Whereever she went she was the queen of the theatre.
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| Reasons for Submission |
Effective use of clips from the Tunisian audiovisual archive to illustrate some of the country's well known artistes. This documentary has been made from sequences from the Tunisian Audiovisuals Archives. The original archive (16mm & 35 mm plus 2", 1" B and C video) has been transferred to Betacam analogue and digital for preservation. |
Cited Work |
Body Talk
Eps. Power |
Production Company |
ITN Factual |
Producer |
Mike Smith |
| Director |
Mike Christie |
Writer |
Peter Collett |
| Film/VT Editor |
Olivia Baldwin & Renoir Tuahene |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Liz Fay |
| Top Sources of Footage |
ITN Archive |
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ITN Archive, Reuters Collection |
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BBC Motion Gallery |
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CNN Videosource |
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NBC |
Duration |
49 minutes x 2 episodes |
First Shown |
Channel 4, 17/05/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
To follow |
| Reasons for Submission |
To follow |
Cited Work |
What's Inside Franks Coffin |
Production Company |
Granada Bristol |
Producer |
Pip Banyard |
| Director |
Pip Banyard |
Writer |
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| Film/VT Editor |
John Edwards & Ian Wilson |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Colin Collis |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Footage Farm |
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Clips & Footage |
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ITN Archive, ITV Cllection |
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Duration |
49 minutes |
First Shown |
Channel 4, 25/07/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
At Frank Sinatra’s star-studded funeral in May 1998, only a handful of mourners knew that his coffin held more than the mortal remains of an 86-year-old man. He would not be buried alone: five secret objects accompanied the singing legend to his grave. Meaningful objects, sometimes cryptic tokens of love from close family. This documentary explores their significance, by taking us on a fascinating journey into one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century, whose final mystery was to begin after he died. |
| Reasons for Submission |
The archive within this documentary covers the one of the longest individual film and television careers in the history of entertainment. Frank Sinatra performed continuously for nearly six decades leaving behind thousands of hours of material including live performances, television interviews, feature films, variety shows, public information films, advertisements, endless news reports and even televised court appearances. To research and condense the relevant elements of this vast archive into this innovative one-off documentary proved a great challenge. Awarded the RTS West of England Network Award for Best Feature / Documentary earlier this year. |
Cited Work |
Bremner, Bird and Fortune - Series 5
Eps. Show 3 |
Production Company |
Vera Productions Limited |
Producer |
Geoff Atkinson |
| Director |
Steve Connelly |
Writer (s) |
Geoff Atkinson, Rory Bremner, John Bird, John Fortune, John Langdon |
| Film/VT Editor |
Steve Tempia |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Val Evans |
| Top Sources of Footage |
ITN Archive |
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Reuters |
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Duration |
49 minutes x 6 episodes |
First Shown |
Channel 4, 15/02/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
Bremner, Bird and Fortune is now in its thirteenth year at Channel 4, having passed well over a hundred shows in its long history. Each show is written, performed and produced within a week and relies on a dedicated team who time and again defy impossible deadlines to deliver an hour of sharp, original comedy. With a dedicated audience of over two million the show has become a fixture on Sunday evenings, Rory being sometimes described as the unofficial opposition to the government. Alongside the two Johns, Bird and Fortune, continue to deliver defining pieces and after forty years at the satire face now inspire a new generation. With further series planned for 2006 and 2007 there’s every chance the team may out live yet another Prime Minister. |
| Reasons for Submission |
When people think of the Bremner, Bird and Fortune show they rightly think of Rory and the two Johns performances but they also quickly comment on the production content of the show and the visual range. A huge part of this relies on the archive, which provides far more than a diversion to the performances and is integral to the whole production. What audiences may not be aware of is that all comes together in just five days. A one hour topical show in one very long working week. It’s a huge testament to Val that she provides this service week in week out with flair, dedication and utter professionalism. If anyone deserves recognition for the hard work put in, it’s surely her. Even more what she demonstrates is the massive creative input of a film researcher and their ability to turn ideas on paper into television programmes.
"It would be impossible to conceive the Bremner, Bird and Fortune shows without Val there and this alone is a measure of how vital a film researcher can be. Added to that she is a brilliant team player who not only does her own job superbly but is a source of help and support to everyone else." |
Cited Work |
D-Day Le Débarquement, La Nuit La Plus Longue |
Production Company |
RetG Productions |
Producer |
Stephane Revon & Jerome Gateau |
| Director |
Jerome Gateau |
Writer |
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| Film/VT Editor |
Jean François Bertrand |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Eve Caille |
| Top Sources of Footage |
INAmédia |
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Gaumont Pathé Archive |
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Memorial de Caen |
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Archives de Guerre |
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Duration |
10 hours |
First Shown |
France 2, 5-6 June 2004 |
Country of Origin |
France |
Synopsis |
A programme in 2 parts: FIRST PART ENTERTAINMENT: Music live and footage (20h50 00h00) live broadcast in little town in Normandy, Sainte Mère Eglise in memory of the landing the 6 June 1944, SECOND PART: 7 hours to live the landing as the famous day 6 June 1944, a talk show with specialist of second War and Veterans of the landing and every half an hour a little actuality flash with only footage to explain the night of the landing on the Normandy beaches. |
| Reasons for Submission |
This was a very ambitiou programme incorporating large amounts of archive footage and live broadcast over 10 hours from the famous town of Normandy Sainte Mère Eglise. This programme is primarily to pay tribute for all the soldiers from different countries who came in Normandy to save Europe on the 6th June 1944. |
Cited Work |
The Joy of Sex Education |
Production Company |
Granada Factuals North |
Producer |
Helen Spencer |
| Director |
Helen Spencer |
Writer |
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| Film/VT Editor |
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Archive Researcher (s) |
Jayne Dunphy |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Huntley Archives |
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BBC Motion Gallery |
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Getty Images |
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Channel 4 |
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ITN Archive, Granada Collection |
Duration |
60 minutes |
First Shown |
Five, 16/09/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
This documentary takes a nostalgic look at our attitudes to learning all about the birds and the bees… from those now hilarious Public Information Films of the Thirties through to parental advice and school lessons in more modern times. It charts the social changes through the decades - from the prudish Fifties to a more enlightened present day. Our interviewees are wide-ranging - from health experts and academics to parents and teachers – who have had the job of educating the nation. Celebrities like Edwina Currie and Paul Daniels also recall how they discovered the facts of life - and reveal what they told their own children. |
| Reasons for Submission |
This documentary was very much based around what archive we could source on the subject of how governments and broadcasters have dealt with such a tricky subject. As well as looking at British archive, we looked abroad to mainland Europe and the USA to see how they had taught their young about sex education. It was a wide range of archive spanning 70 years, from public information films like The Secrets of Marriage in 1931, through to controversial school films like Growing Up to the Blue Peter baby and underage pregnancy story-lines in today's soaps. We feel we were able to use these many different sources of archive to make an entertaining - but also informative - documentary about a subject that's both hilarious and serious at the same time. |
Cited Work |
Les Dawson's Lost Diaries |
Production Company |
Granada Factuals North |
Producer |
Pip Banyard |
| Director |
Pip Banyard |
Writer |
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Archive Researcher (s) |
Lisa Needham |
| Top Sources of Footage |
BBC Motion Gallery |
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Home Movies, Dawson Family |
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British Movietonews |
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Open University |
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Duration |
60 minutes |
First Shown |
Channel 4, 3/04/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
This is the definitive story of Les Dawson based on the contents of his previously unseen private diaries and the testimony of those closest to him at all stages of his life. For over half his life Les struggled with failure and disappointment. His 20-year struggle to the top became the reason for his success - as he incorporated his ‘excellence at failure’ into a unique comic style. But the success did not bring him the happiness he sought and he suffered crippling insecurities and constant fear of failure which eventually led to his premature death. |
| Reasons for Submission |
We believe this documentary gave a unique insight into the mindset of one of Britain's favourite comedians. By utilising diaries that had lain untouched in his office since his death - and using the Dawson family's home movie footage which had never been shown before - we felt we were able to paint a fascinating portrait of a complex character. Interviewees included those who knew him as a young man growing up in Collyhurst through to his second wife Tracy with whom he shared his last days. It also featured those who knew him professionally – from his days of selling vacuum cleaners and in the Army through his early performances in the Northern Clubs through to the height of his success on national television. |
Cited Work |
The Ninth |
Production Company |
13 Production |
Producer |
Paul Saadoun |
| Director |
Pierre-Henry Salfati |
Writer |
Christian Labrande |
| Film/VT Editor |
Mathilde Morrieres |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Virginie Guibbaud & XY Zebre |
| Top Sources of Footage |
Gaumont Pathé Archives |
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Bundes Archives |
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ITN Archive |
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INAmédia |
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Duration |
79 minutes |
First Shown |
WDR, Sept 2004 |
Country of Origin |
France |
Synopsis |
The Ninth Symphony Directed by Pierre-Henry Salfati Romantic musicians made it a symbol of their art. Bakounine, who dreamt of destroying the bourgeois world, was prepared to save nothing but The Ode to Joy. German Nationalists venerated it. French Republicans saw in it the designs of 1789 : " Liberty, Equality, Fraternity " ! A " Marseillaise for all humanity " it was called in Paris in the XIXth. Édouard Herriot wanted to translate the Ode into Esperanto ! The communists conceived it as the gospel of a classless world. The Catholics, simply as the gospel ! The democrats, as democracy ! Socialists hesitated between The International and The Ode to Joy ! Hitler inaugurated the IIIrd Reich with The Ninth ! And celebrated his anniversaries with The Ode to Joy. Japanese Kamikazes listened to it before their final assault. The Olympic Games habitually made it resound. The NASA sent it into space recorded on a golden disk… It was the anthem of the racist Republic of Rhodesia. The UN wished to make it the world anthem… It was heard, not often, in Sarajevo. Today it is the anthem of the European Union. This short listing illustrates the breadth of consensus. Since its creation in 1824, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is, within Occidental music, the work that has had the most notable acclaim. The track record of The Ninth Symphony has been a dazzling one, to the point of becoming an unprecedented phenomenon in the inception of the political hymns of nationalism in the modern age. A chain of sound that is a veritable fixation in the Occident, The Ninth has long been the touchstone of a musical cult associated to the " Beethoven Myth ". The question remains: How its universal message : " All men become brothers ", can have been the object of so many contradictory and incompatible appropriations ? |
| Reasons for Submission |
Use of archive material to tell a story dated before cinema (the history of the Ninth Symphony) - Around 35 sources of archive material |
Cited Work |
Forum Barcelona - Voices Exhibit |
Production Company |
Tomato Films |
Producer |
Abi Hodson |
| Director |
Simon Taylor |
Writer |
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| Film/VT Editor |
Sean Broughton |
Archive Researcher (s) |
Anne Hummel |
| Top Sources of Footage |
BBC Motion Gallery |
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ITN Archive, Granada Collection |
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National Geographic Film Library |
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APTN Library |
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Moving Image Communications |
Duration |
10 minutes |
First Shown |
Forum Exhibition, 9/05/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
Audio visual content for Forum 2004 Voices exhibit, which ran from May 2004 for 5 months in Barcelona. Voices is dedicated to diversity, one of the core themes of the Forum. The objective of the exhibition is to celebrate human communication and linguistic and cultural diversity. The central dome structure comprised of 28 screens of various sizes positioned around an amphitheatre 32m in diameter. The film, directed by Simon Taylor, was programmed through a central server to incorporate the 28 screens. Multiple and single images along side typography were choreographed making the most of the three dimensional space creating an immersive environment. In addition a 100m wall, comprising of 24 screens, featuring 96 separate languages ran along side the central audio visual, resulting in a total of 52 different films shown simultaneously. Sometimes the screens showed the same image everywhere; other moments featured different images on every screen. The films were synchronized to merge in a moment of ‘collapse’ at one point in the ten minute show. |
| Reasons for Submission |
Combines specially shot with archive footage to make a linear film 52 mins in length, which when projected onto 28 screens has a screening duration of 10 mins. Technically this was a challenge when editing and programming server. Graphics and music are combined with footage to create a stimulating experience. The languages, images and graphics featured explore diversity through linguistics, The film includes diverse cultures from around the world, and shows how they communicate in their own individual ways. It looks at communication through gesture, facial expression, language, the written word, music, clothing, This exhibit proved to be both stimulating and informative, educating audiences in a non traditional way and promoting those languages nearing extinction. |
Cited Work |
The Truth About Britain's Favourite Toys |
Production Company |
Associated Rediffusion Television |
Producer |
Tom Weller |
| Director |
Tom Weller |
Writer |
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| Film/VT Editor |
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Archive Researcher (s) |
Tom Weller |
| Top Sources of Footage |
BBC Motion Gallery |
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ITN Archive |
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Corbis |
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Kevin King |
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Robert Opie |
Duration |
48 minutes |
First Shown |
Five, 29/12/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
Some were good, some were hopeless and some were just plain dangerous. This documentary tells the true stories behind some of Britain's most iconic toys: from the model steam engines and dolls with gripping hands to the ouija boards that produced mass hysteria and the un-PC dolls that were banned by local councils. |
| Reasons for Submission |
This entertaining documentary is brought to life using extensive, unusual and well researched archive footage. |
Cited Work |
Stranger Than Fiction: The Real Flying Saucers |
Production Company |
David Monaghan Productions |
Producer |
David Monaghan |
| Director |
Callum Macrae |
Writer |
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| Film/VT Editor |
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Archive Researcher (s) |
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| Top Sources of Footage |
Canadian National Archives |
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CBC |
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Magellan Aerospace Corp |
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Romanian Airforce Museum |
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The Wade Williams Collection |
Duration |
48 minutes |
First Shown |
Five, 16/06/2004 |
Country of Origin |
UK |
Synopsis |
Documentary examining flying saucers, investigating government experiments on them and examining the CIA's 'alien craft' theory. |
| Reasons for Submission |
The use of archive footage gels the narrative of the documentary and theories of the present day. |
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