The producer and writer who worked on the legendary series in the 1970s and was also series writer on CNN's Cold War was given the nod for his excellence in the use of archive footage.
In the other categories, Testimony Films won the ?Award for Best Use of Footage in a Factual Production' for its series The 50s & 60s in Living Colour while Soho facility house The Machine Room picked up the Award for Best Post Production Work on an Archive-based Production for the TWI/Carlton Production Churchill.
The FOCAL International 2004 Awards, designed to celebrate and recognize excellence in the use of archive and footage libraries was held last night (Tuesday 11th May 2004) at the London Television Centre. FOCAL (Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries) International is a not-for-profit professional trade association for the archive market.
The full list of winners are:
Award for Best Use of Footage in a Factual Production
The 50s & 60s in Living Colour (Testimony Films)
Award for Best Use of Footage in a Pop Music Promo
Blur - Out of Time (Silvergnome & Helen Langridge Associates)
Award for Best Use of Footage in an Entertainment Production
Bodysong (Hot Property Films)
Award for Best Use of Footage in an Advertisement
Renault "Scenic": Park the TV (Publicis)
Award for Best Use of Footage in Electronic Publishing
La Camera Stylo - website trailer
La Camera Stylo Film Collection
Award for Archive Restoration or Preservation Project
Carlton International Media
Award for Best Post Production Work on an Archive-based Production
The Machine Room for Churchill (A TWI / Carlton Production)
Award for Best Researcher
Valérie Combard for 'Les Martin' (La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse)
Award for Best Content Library
The Imperial War Museum Film & Video Archive (IWM)
Award for Lifetime Achievement
Jerome Kuehl
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