Shooting the Past

Shooting the Past

Photographs that unlock the past... to fight for the future

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Release Date

1/10/1999

Runtime

3 eps, 182 mins

Genres

Overview

A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him.

Status

Ended

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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An American developer's attempt to demolish a London building housing a priceless photographic archive becomes a passionate battle of wills between commerce and cultural preservation, told through the intimate discoveries photographs unlock about the past.

Mood

DefiantBittersweetContemplativeTense

Themes

MemoryArt and creationPower

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Steady

Look

Documentary-likeNaturalistic

Structure

Linear

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