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Using Stock which were nicely shot on color." Hyman expects that March of Time will be useful when they get into 20th Century part of the series. "We'll look to use actual footage of the event or newsreel, as well as high definition scenics of America, to set the mood and show the splendor of the country at various points in time." Since this series covers such a long peri- Adam Hyman is currently finding imagery for The History Channel's The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents. od of American history, footage was coming in on various formats, and Hyman prefers to stay true to those original formats. He points to newsreel footage as an example: a collection (Universal) that was donated to the National Archives and is now public domain. "Generally, it was shot in 16mm and these were dubbed in SD by the Library of Congress, and 16mm is always 4x3, so to include it directly in a show you either pillow box it or lose material off the top and bot- tom of the frame." Other newsreel collections belong to dif- ferent archives, including the aforementioned March of Time from HBO; Fox Movietone; Pathe; Paramount; and others. Every project has that hard-to-find image (or lots of them). For Presidents, one was a painting of the White House and Capitol from 1826. A couple of Websites showed it without credit, and none of the archives RLMG's Cici Clark researched and licensed mountain footage for the History Colorado Center. found it at first. Finally, a book included it with its source — the Huntington Library. Super- stock was then able to locate it. Now he's trying to find a high-resolution image of the Thomas Jefferson statue that stood on the North Lawn of the White House from 1847- 1874. "It was supposedly moved to the Stat- uary Hall of the Capitol, but it's not listed in their collection online. I've written to the Historian at the office of the Architect of the Capitol to see if she knows where it has gone." RICHARD LEWIS MEDIA GROUP Richard Lewis Media Group (www.rlmg.com) in Watertown, MA, which produces media exhib- its for museums, recently com- pleted 51 individual video pieces for the new History Colorado Center in Denver. Their work included a 134-screen Christie MicroTile display that presents a six-minute overview of Colora- do's history as well as a 27-minute video timeline of important events. Its intent is to show the beauty and grandeur of the state. The display is big — 22 feet wide and 9 feet tall. "We need- ed some incredible images and video to make that exhibit shine," says Cici Clark, who was the researcher for the project. RLMG used 125 different visual sources for what is the first phase of the media exhibits being designed at the History Colorado Center. Besides the 32 Post • July 2012 www.postmagazine.com material in the museum's collection, Clark and team used material from stock photo and footage houses, networks, libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, private collections and individuals. We were looking for images and video to highlight what is spectacular about Colorado," she says. For the opening seg- ment of the MicroTile video, Clark was tasked with finding Red, 4K or higher, aerial footage of the Colorado Rockies, and they were having a tough time. "There was HD everywhere, and 4K of the Rocky Moun- tains in other states, but nothing yet of the Colorado Rockies in 4K." That is when she called Colorado-based cinematographer Greg Hensley of Greg Hensley Productions. He had taken some aerials with a 35mm camera years ago and RLMG had them transferred to the format they required. "We were trying to illustrate the Walt Whitman quote that the Rocky Mountains are the backbone of our hemi- sphere, so we needed specific shots to illus- trate the mountains as a backbone." RLMG had worked with Greg Hensley in the past and he made sure the produc- tion company was aware of any additions to his collection. Other stock houses were called on as well for the MicroTile movie and timeline, and they ran the gamut from the smaller archives (Maine's Northwind Picture Archives for color etchings) to bigger collections (such as Getty Images). For other exhibits, they tapped Fremantle Ltd. in England for historic footage of Hunter Thompson, who ran for sheriff of Pitkin County in the late 1960s. From NBC, they acquired footage about Denver's Olympic