Selected articles from back issues:
THE SPOILS OF WAR
German Films & UK Property Act 1953 (Part 1)
By London lawyer Hubert Best
In the first of two articles, the story of how the film output of Josef Goebbels is scattered across the globe, and the subject of an unending battle
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BOOTY
IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
German Films
& UK Property Act 1953 (Part 2)
By London lawyer Hubert Best
It's one of history's ironies -- given
current interest in them -- that when
the films from the Third Reich were
made, German copyright law only protected
them for 25 years from the year in
which the film was shown.....
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SULLIVANS
TRAVELS
One man's mission
By collector, archivist & writer
Exec J. Fred MacDonald
...this man was an explorer with the
soul of an anthropologist and the
eye of an artist. And he produced
his best work when he photographed
the varieties of people he encounter
on his exotic trips.
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KOREA
WAR OPPORTUNITY
A Stirring Film
by John Ford Breaks the Mould
By London Rearcher Steve Bergson
The combat footage is startlingly vivid.
When a bomb explodes nearby, the camera
shakes. You feel the cold of the Korean
POWs and marines as they trudge through
the Korean mountains. The narration
is sparse .....
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RED
ARCHIVES: BURIED TREASURE:
A hidden archive,
built over thirty years
By Evgueni Nagaitev, Russian Producer,
Researcher & Archivist
The family had occupied a two-storey
house: the first floor was the offices,
the second the living quarters for the
family; the films were kept in the dry
and cool stone cellar......the old "rubbish"nobody
needed anymore remained in my grandfather's
cellar.
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HOW
THE RED ARCHIVE OPTED FOR THE THIRD
WAY:
Behind closed
doors in East European Archives
By UK Researcher Angela Spindler-Brown
The fall of communism also meant a new
beginning for East European archives.
Initially, archive footage was used
by the new political class to demonstrate
to its newly empowered electorate the
real face of the communists they'd just
replaced. For the first time Russians
saw the Gulags, the Lublyanka Prison
and a devastated environment on their
television screens; Poles were shown
the killing fields of Katyn; Czechs,
nuclear missiles at Soviet bases established
in he country after the 1968 invasion.
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NEWSREELS:
FIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION
Rumbustious
history of British newsreels
By London Researcher & Consultant
Cy Young
On 5th October 1930, sensational news
reached England from Beauvais in France:
the airship R101 had crashed.....
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PRODUCING
DVDs
Organising for
DVD production
By London Facilities Exec Danny Whybrow
DVD is the first real physical media
capable of delivering top-quality video
to the consumer. Not only that -- it
can offer interactivity, multiple surround
audio tracks, multiple subtitles, multiple
angles -- essentially everything required
to deliver the message as intended and
much, much more.
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