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Archival Storytelling:
A Filmmaker's
Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing
Third-Party Visuals and Music
ISBN 978-0-240-80973-1
Imprint: Focal Press/Elsevier
Publication date: September 2008
Price: $34.95 paperback
by
Sheila Curran Bernard
and
Kenn Rabin
"Should
be part of any filmmaker's library."-- Spoke Digital
Films (Read
more REVIEWS)
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Description:
An essential,
pragmatic guide to one of the most challenging issues
facing filmmakers today: the use of images and music
that belong to someone else. Where do producers go for
affordable stills and footage? How do filmmakers
evaluate the historical value
of archival materials? What do vérité producers
need to know when documenting a world filled with
rights-protected images and sounds? How do filmmakers
protect their own creative efforts from infringement?
Filled with advice and
insight from filmmakers, archivists, film researchers,
music supervisors, intellectual property experts,
insurance executives and others, Archival
Storytelling defines key terms—copyright,
fair use, public domain, orphan works and more—and
challenges filmmakers to become not only archival users
but also archival and copyright activists, ensuring
their ongoing ability as creators to draw on the
cultural materials that surround them.
Featuring
conversations with industry leaders including Patricia
Aufderheide, Hubert Best, Peter Jaszi, Jan Krawitz,
Lawrence Lessig, Stanley Nelson, Rick Prelinger,
Patricia Shannahan, Geoffrey C. Ward and many others.
REVIEWS:
“I am often asked how to work with archival materials.
Now I have an easy answer: Get a copy of Archival
Storytelling and read it. Everything's there—how to
use archival materials, acquire them, and most of all,
how to think about them. Archival Storytelling is
indispensable.”
—David Grubin, Filmmaker, LBJ, FDR, Napoleon, and
The Jewish Americans
"This is it, the book that will save you thousands of
dollars and untold hours of frustration. It will be the
single best purchase your production company will make. Archival
Storytelling clearly explains the entire process of
researching, acquiring and licensing archival footage
and music. Included are time-tested tips and techniques
for efficiently managing the work flow and negotiating
rights."
—Ann Petrone, Archival Supervisor, The Fog of War
"One of the best—and
most needed—texts
I have seen in a while.The
challenge is to keep what is a fairly technical aspect
of filmmaking interesting without compromising the
quality and depth of information. The authors have done
an exceptional job in this regard by the careful
interweaving of interviews with researchers, filmmakers
and legal experts through the factual material.There
is the strong sense of being in the presence of
experienced filmmakers and researchers who accept that
while there are standard practices, archival use and
intellectual property laws etc. are contingent fields in
which each case must be assessed and dealt with on its
merits."
—Bruce
Sheridan, Chair, Film & Video Department, Columbia
College
"I've been making historical
documentaries for many years, yet I learned new things from this
book. This is the definitive guide for archival research for
documentary filmmakers. An invaluable resource."
—Mark Jonathan
Harris, Distinguished Professor, School of Cinematic Arts,
University of Southern California, and writer/director, The
Long Way Home and Into the Arms of
Strangers
"Long overdue, this is the resource
guide we've been waiting for. Connecting the nuts and bolts of
the search for a shot with the current challenges of new media
and fair use, Archival Storytelling brings the past right
up to the present."
—Gail Dolgin,
co-producer, Daughter from Danang and
Summer of Love
"It's hard to imagine a more
organized, comprehensive dissection of Byzantine material. The
authors have produced a tremendous guide for all who use
archival resources. Best of all, because of their effort, I
believe more individuals will be able to access and properly
utilize such material. This book will serve filmmakers and, in
turn, the public for years to come."
—Thomas Speicher,
Video Production Developer, Pennsylvania College of Technology,
and producer, Degrees That Work
"Not
simply a "how-to" manual, it is also a discussion of ideas,
issues and history that creates an enjoyable text even when the
subject matter becomes complicated¼.The
real world examples, the roundtable discussions, and the
exploration of ideas and issues surrounding the technical
aspects are very welcome and well done."
—Dustin Ogdin,
filmmaker, Spoke Digital Films
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Cover image: On main street of
Cascade, Idaho, July 1941. Photograph by Russell Lee (Collection
11671-15, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
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from Focal Press!
Documentary Storytelling, 2nd edition
(January 2007)
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