Title: Open University Humanities documentaries
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 3 x 10-15 min
Director: Beth Newell
Prod Co: Evans Woolfe
Client: The Open University
Year: 2019
A series of three films for Open Universtiy online courses, looking at landscape writing, the history of printing technology and the French Revolution.
On the road - Home and Away explores how the landscape and language of Shetland have influenced the work of travel writer and novelist Malachy Tallack, presented by OU academic Fiona Doloughan, and featuring interviews with Malachy, academic Mark Ryan-Smith and dialect expert Mary Blance.
Antwerp History visits the printing workshop of 16th century printer Christopher Plantin, featuring interviews with typographer Guy Hutsebaut and curator Dirk Imhof.
The Reign of Terror looks at Picpus cemetary in Paris where 1,300 victims of the guillotine were buried, presented by Amanda Goodrich and featuring interviews with historian and caretaker Jean-Jacques Faugeron.
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 3 x 10-15 min
Director: Beth Newell
Prod Co: Evans Woolfe
Client: The Open University
Year: 2019
A series of three films for Open Universtiy online courses, looking at landscape writing, the history of printing technology and the French Revolution.
On the road - Home and Away explores how the landscape and language of Shetland have influenced the work of travel writer and novelist Malachy Tallack, presented by OU academic Fiona Doloughan, and featuring interviews with Malachy, academic Mark Ryan-Smith and dialect expert Mary Blance.
Antwerp History visits the printing workshop of 16th century printer Christopher Plantin, featuring interviews with typographer Guy Hutsebaut and curator Dirk Imhof.
The Reign of Terror looks at Picpus cemetary in Paris where 1,300 victims of the guillotine were buried, presented by Amanda Goodrich and featuring interviews with historian and caretaker Jean-Jacques Faugeron.