The
worst one ever has to be National Treaure which has to be seen to be
believed.
It
involves Nicholas Cage trying to steal the Declaration of Independence from The
National Archives of the U.S.A, which incidentally is kept behind a laser guided
security system (and if it gets too warm it drops swiftly down through
the floor straight into the conservation area). Cage steals the document,
bullets go whistling around the conservation lab, he kidnaps the
Head Archivist (who looks about 28 and wears a ballgown), rolls up the
delclaration in a tube, bangs it about on tables, throwing it
around, squeezes lemon juice all over it and rubs it with a cotton bud to
see if there is a hidden message - and the most the Head Archivist does is to
say "no if anyone's going to squeeze lemon juice on it, it should be me because
I'm a professional!".
Guaranteed to make any Archivist apopletic within
seconds
My
colleague tells me there is an Archivist character in Blade who is fried to
death because Blade wants to look at the Archives. And you thought family
historians were demanding.
Catherine
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Kathleen
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cinema.
How about:
Stargate (the movie)
Stargate-SG1 (TV series)
Stargate Atlantis (TV series)
I just marvel at the record keeping practices of 'The
Ancients'. If only!
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Subject: RM
in cinema.
Again, apologies
for cross-posting.
Further to my recent enquiry on this list
about records management training videos, I am trying now to think of films or
television programmes that portray the practice or effects of record keeping
(good or bad). I have seen a number of espionage/political thriller films like
this, but can't remember any of the titles.
I've seen this topic
discussed on this list before, so I apologise for returning to the subject
again.
Can anyone recommend to me, perhaps off list, any films
that might illustrate records management fundamentals?
Thanks in
advance,
James Lowry.
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