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Archival Storytelling:

A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using,

and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music

 

Available September 2008 from Focal Press, Amazon and elsewhere!

 

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Introduction

 

 PART I: FINDING IT

  • What are archival materials?

  • Finding what you need

  • Should you hire a professional?

  • A global perspective: Conversations with researchers in Moscow, Sydney, Toronto and Washington

PART II: USING IT

  • Practical considerations

  • Ordering what you need

  • Creative considerations

  • An ongoing process: A conversation with Geoffrey C. Ward

  • Ethical considerations: A roundtable with Claire Aguilar, Jon Else, Stanley Nelson, Bill Nichols, and Rick Prelinger

PART III: LICENSING IT

  • Introduction to rights and licenses

  • The public domain

  • Getting things right: A conversation with Lawrence Lessig

  • Fair use (including discussion with Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi)

  • Fair dealing, moral rights, and more: A conversation with U.K. intellectual property attorney Hubert Best

  • Licensing visuals

  • Licensing music

  • Legal considerations: A roundtable with Anthony Falzone, Sam Green, Debra Kozee, Jan Krawitz, Dale Nelson, Rick Prelinger, and Kristine Samuelson

  • Afterword

 

PART IV: ADDITIONAL MATERIAL (see website Resources page)

Sources and notes

Bibliography

Filmography

About the authors

Index

 

Fred Ott's Sneeze  (filmed in 1894; courtesy U.S. Library of Congress)

   

Drive-in Blues

(photo courtesy Jan Krawitz)

 

Alexander Hamilton

(photo courtesy Middlemarch Films)

 

 

The War ((photo by CphoM. Robert F.

Sargent, courtesy U.S. National Archives)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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