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An Archive for Film Makers by Film Makers

Dr Christopher Riley worked in film and television at the BBC for over ten years, specialising in science and history.  He first worked with NASA's film archive during the making of BBC's landmark science history series The Planets described by The Times as 'a model documentary' series and Broadcast Magazine as containing 'fabulous archive'.

For his latest production In the Shadow of the Moon, the story of the Apollo Moon shots Chris turned to the subject of human spaceflight, again uncovering previously unseen footage and supervising its transfer from 16mm film to HD tape.  Through his work over the last decade Chris has an unequalled knowledge of American film archive covering the history of spaceflight, both robotic and human.

Alex Kandaurov is a Moscow based film and video archive researcher with many years experience recovering the scattered film archives covering Russian 20th Century history.  He also worked on the BBC landmark series The Planets and has worked with the CNN, ABC and NHK networks.  He is experienced at unravelling the complexities of clearance and rights issues for much of this rare, and often privately held footage.