Wanted: * Qualified reviewer to report on either (a) one of the recent documentaries featuring Frank Hurley's footage of Ernest Shackleton's 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic, or (b) the spate of recent film and television programming featuring this footage in different incarnations -- surely the biggest deployment of pre-1917 archival footage to be found in popular media. *Report/review (c. 1,500 - 2,000 words) will appear in THE MOVING IMAGE, Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, published twice yearly. *Deadline for next issue, August 2002. Contact: *Dan Streible, [log in to unmask], Film Review Editor, THE MOVING IMAGE The recent productions include (1) THE ENDURANCE: *SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION * Cowboy Pictures documentary * Directed by George Butler, based on the book by Caroline Alexander. Narrated by Liam Neeson. * 93 minutes. Still in theatrical release. http://www.cowboypictures.com/endurance (2) The TV series "Nova" just broadcast the two-hour SHACKLETON'S VOYAGE OF ENDURANCE on PBS, George Butler's expanded version of THE ENDURANCE. (3) *Nova's Giant-Screen Film, SHACKLETON'S ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE, is also in theatrical release. Narrated by Kevin Spacey. *Directed by George Butler. 40 minutes. ********************************************In 1999-2000, the production team undertook two expeditions to the Antarctic. Mountain climbing experts Reinhold Messner, Stephen Venables, and Conrad Anker retraced the historic steps across the mountains and glaciers of South Georgia Island. *Also features the original 35mm motion-picture footage of Frank Hurley, the official photographer for the Endurance expedition. *WGBH Enterprises, Giant-Screen Films, is the distributor, in 15-perforation/70mm and 8-perforation/70mm giant-screen formats. **Still in IMAX theater run. (4) two-part A&E "Biography" ERNEST SHACKLETON: LOOKING SOUTH (premieres in the US, April 7-8, 2002) (5) ANTARCTICA: A FROZEN HISTORY (History Channel) (6) SHACKLETON AND THE ANTARCTIC (Channel 4 Television, UK) Documentary produced to accompany THE ENDURANCE for the series "To the Ends of the Earth" (a WGBH production for Channel 4), first shown on Channel 4 in November 2000 (a WGBH production for Channel 4), first shown on Channel 4 in November 2000. (7) SHACKLETON (2001, Firstsight Films), a two-part drama, starring Kenneth Branagh (8) BREAKING THE ICE (2001), documentary about the making of the Branagh drama; premiering on A&E in the US, as THE MAKING OF 'SHACKLETON' (9) also, SOUTH (1919) released by Milestone Film & Video (their best-selling title) Interested parties may want to read Julie Salamon, "TV Discovers the Antarctic Explorer Shackleton in a Big Way," NEW YORK TIMES, March 26, 2002. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu