Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Us...
Curran Bernard, Sheila / Rabin, Kenn
Filmmakers, especially those making documentaries, need to draw upon archival material: pictures, footage, music and sound that others have created. For example, George Clooney's "Good Night and Good Luck" interweaves historic footage of Joseph McCarthy into the narrative. Ken Burns makes extensive use of photos and music clips in his documentaries on the Civil War, jazz, and baseball. Yet due to increasingly restrictive copyright laws, diffic...