Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music

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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, difficulty in finding material, and fear of legal reprisal, many important stories are going untold by filmmakers. Enter "Archival Storytelling, " a much-needed and lively series of conversations with historians, archivists, intellectual property experts, and filmmakers. It's a comprehensive guide to the practical, effective and ethical use of non-original source materials and is written by an author dream team: Bernard is the author of "Documentary Storytelling", an industry standard on documentaries, and Rabin helped George Clooney pull off the use of McCarthy imagery in "Good Night and Good Luck." The authors have pulled in an all-star cast of contributors, including filmmakers, copyright attorneys, and media experts--for a balanced perspective on this important subject.