I am getting slightly confused by all this.
Just to clarify are we now saying that Records Manager/Officers are
shifty looking?
If so I object - it is some sort of conspiracy which threatens
masculinity.
On a [semi] serious note a simple plea
Please students of all ages and experience keep posting your thoughts,
queries and requests. Some posting have made me think Oh that is worth
reading up [often from current students] so often current student's
postings into our knowledge sharing communities are helping to keep me
[i.e. old fossil] up to date [ish] and to be honest some posts just make
me think...!....
Just one final thought the only e-mail etiquette I was ever told [at
University] was that Block Capitals, in an e-mail, is the same as shouting
i.e aggressive and bullying and should be avoided at all costs - unless
you wish to be seen to be shouting......
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From: Morag Fyfe <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask],
Date: 23/06/2014 13:25
Subject: Re: Film suggestions for MA dissertation
Sent by: "Archivists, conservators and records managers."
<[log in to unmask]>
Paul,
Just an addendum to your very impressive and comprehensive list - Tinker
Tailor... is now a film as well, and still includes the use of the
departmental record store for the Service (and Benedict Cumberbatch
looking shifty therein). That scene was one of the highlights of the film
for me!
Morag.
Sent from my iPhone
On 20 Jun 2014, at 16:29, PAUL DULLER <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi George,
Here are a few films containing elements of records management, from the
last trawl I did. If anyone has any additions, please let me know (
[log in to unmask]):
1984
------
The Orwellian classic -and a prime example of archives been destroyed
because of their potential to be corrupting
A Civil Action
------------------
A John Travolta film where the records from his case are handed over to
the Environmental Protection Agency. I believe they use a forklift to move
the records in a warehouse full of such documents.
A Few Good Men
-----------------------
The tower chiefs logs for Guantanamo Bay and Andrew Airforce base are used
as evidence. These should log a flight that took place at a certain but
Colonel Jessup has somehow has them unauthorizedly amended to save him
from getting into trouble.
Alien 3
----------
The plots centre around the mining companies secret defence contract
agenda, which Ripley accesses electronically from the ship's records
system. She also accesses the company personnel files.
All the Presidents' Men
---------------------------
This film from 1976 stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, as reporters
from the Washington Post who discover a link between the Whitehouse and
the break-in at the Watergate building, leading to the downfall of Nixon.
They investigate the destruction of official records being destroyed
without authorisation to cover up the conspiracy. Cringe as Dustin Hoffman
goes into a government record office and is brought some volumes by a very
nerdy search room assistant. He then tears out the pages he needs as
evidence, when the assistant isn't looking.
American Splendour
---------------------
A recent and quirky film, where the main character, Harvey Pekar, is a
hospital Records Manager and part-time comic script writer. Many of the
scenes are set in his *tidy* file room. It won the Grand Jury Prize,
Sundance Film Festival 2003; and the Critics Prize, Cannes Film Festival
2003.
Angel
--------
In one of the episodes of Angel (an offshoot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
see below) an evil female lawyer goes to her company's vaults to look up
some records and encounters a woman who says 'I am Files and Records;
which document do you require?' or words to that effect. It turns out that
she is not the person in charge, but she literally IS Files and Records,
and can recall/recite anything requested, being some kind of virtual
construct or more likely a demonic entity.
Being John Malkovich
---------------------------------
This included a records centre with an unusually low ceiling height (cheap
rental value), where you could access the brain of JM via a portal hidden
behind a filing cabinet. Scene set in LesterCorp offices on floor 7 1/2:
see
LESTER - Tell me, Dr. Schwartz, what do you feel you can bring to
LesterCorp?
CRAIG - Well, sir, I'm an excellent filer.
LESTER -You think so, eh? Which comes first, L or... Glooph?
CRAIG - Glooph is not a letter, sir.
LESTER - Damn, you are good. I tried to trick you.
Black Adder
-------------
The records related episode
Bladerunner
------------
Are we human because we keep records? Will we have biometric records to
prove that we are human?
Blade
-----
An Archivist is fried to death because Blade wants to look at the
Archives. And you thought family historians were demanding.
Blue Collar
---------------
Paul Shrader's film where factory workers Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Koto and
Richard Pryor raid their trade union office for money and find records
relating to the unions involvement with the mafia. A great blues sound
track follows this film and it is supposed to represent the disenchantment
many
Americans felt in Post Nixon America.
Brazil
------
Terry Gillam's surreal movie set in a 'records centre' of the future.
Bruce Almighty
----------------
Jim Carey demonstrates just how much you can fit into a filing cabinet. He
also has a records problem in managing prayer requests. The prayers have
built up and he needs a system to manage them. First he tries stick-it
notes, then filing cabinets, and finally opts for an email system on a
computer called Yahweh.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
------------------------------------
A gang of vampire hunting teenagers are headquartered in their Local
Library and have an archive full of satanic texts to play with.
Carlton Brown of the FO
-------------------------
Classic 1950's comedy featuring Terry Thomas and Peter Sellers. The
Foreign Office receives a letter from a colony they had completely
forgotten about and have to ring down to Archives to retrieve its papers.
The Archives/RM unit consists of cobweb encrusted cupboards with mice
(located in, you
guessed it, the basement) looked after by an ancient, shuffling records
manager/Archivist - how not to keep your semi-current records!
Chinatown
---------------
Jack Nicholson goes to the records office, borrows a ruler from the
records clerk, and tears off a property deed while the clerk is not
looking.
Class Action
-------------
This 1990 movie class features Gene Hackman. The film centres around
evidence for a court case against a motor firm. Many scenes in a Record
Centre & lots of records being dumped on solicitors to mask "the truth"!
It includes a strong document production/litigation theme with tons of
Iron
Mountain boxes and the line by an elderly witness who said that he didn't
have the document -- to get it you have to go to the mountain -- Iron
Mountain!.
Clear and Present Danger
------------------------------
Demonstrates the difference between computerized research into records
versus paper records and how a destruction schedule is not always
respected.
Cold Case
-----------
New TV series pulling out old case files and not using "Out Cards"!
There's one episode where the killer turns out to be the deranged nerdy
archivist who knows everyone's secrets because he has read all their files
Defence of the Realm
----------------------
Gabriel Byrne trying the old cough-loudly-while-ripping-out-a-record trick
when investigating a government cover-up.
Desk Set
--------
A classic Spencer Tracy/ Kate Hepburn movie
Die Hard 2
-----------
Bruce Willis is looking for the plans for the airport cable raceways to
get under the runway and he encounters the "file room" with the drawings
in rolls "filed" in garbage cans.
Disclosure
----------
The film version of Michael Crichton's novel in which the electronic
records of the computer company (emails, voicemail and videoconference
records) in which the action is set are visualised in their experimental
virtual reality environment as a series of folders in vertical filing
cabinets, the drawers of which are marked with topic labels and open on
voice command. When the hero (Michael Douglas) enters the virtual reality
space looking for 'files' he watches them physically disappear as the evil
hard woman who is trying to destroy his career (Demi Moore) sits at her
computer in real time and deletes them. He is able to recover the crucial
deleted e-mails and other documents he needs by having
them faxed to him by the recipient in the firm's Asian manufacturing
plant. This gives him a hardcopy product and by passes the firm's e-mail
system from which he has been maliciously excluded.
Dodge Ball
----------------
A brief mention of Freedom of Information
Erin Brokovitch
-----------------
Julia Roberts stars as Erin Brokovitch as the heroine of the movie pitched
into battle against. Pacific Gas & Electric. The story is littered with
references to the use and abuse of records (and very disorganised file
rooms).and provides a very useful (negative) illustration of the issues
around disclosure and retrieval of relevant records:
1. The water testing board retained all their water testing records in a
back of beyond office - despite being retained in a haphazard format (not
sure if it would be classed as a relevant filing system, and after an
extensive search, key records are found in paper format providing valuable
evidence against a corporation's chemical disposal procedures, controls
and damage mitigation activity.
2. A worker for the manufacturer recalled being asked to shred a
substantial amount of paper records in dubious circumstances and was able
to recall the nature of the content and timing of the request to dispose.
Again, the nature of the disposal of the records was held against the
firm.
3. Documents from the manufacturer to householders residing near the plant
confirmed offers to purchase their property for minimum sums and again
provided key evidence as 'records of activity' by the manufacturer to
enter into damage mitigation activity.
...and as everyone knows, substantial payouts ensued thanks to the
records!
Enemy of the State
----------------------------
This film featuring Gene Hackman and Will Smith included the capture of a
murder scene on a video used to record bird activity – demonstrating that
over the lifecycle of the record, the content may have more value than
that of original intent! Stolen identities and lots of Data Protection
type issues - a good illustration of how records can be manipulated.
Enigma
-------
Record access issues and secrets abound.
Fahrenheit 451
---------------
A bookless society where all books are burned (FH 451 being the
temperature at which they catch fire)
Fatherland
-----------
Old Nazi records are key to the story.
Ghostbusters
-------------
The library scene.
Goldeneye
-----------
James Bond runs amok in a Russian filing room and the unsecured shelves
and their contents go flying in particularly spectacular fashion. A major
gunfight trashes the place - not something that figures in many people's
disaster plan! cf. Case files associated with all other movies.
Glengarry Glen Ross
----------------------
Having your records stolen by a member of your own workforce is quite a
trying experience. The acting by Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and
Alec Baldwin is a masterclass. You also get the atmosphere of a high
tension office at work or ordinary people under extraordinary pressure.
Hannibal
---------
Patients files have been dumped in a filing cabinet in the old, abandoned
hospital, providing Barney with an opportunity to sell Hannibal Lecter's
medical files on the internet.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
---------------------------------
Always a good idea to check with planning. Is there an intergalactic EIR
system?
Hopscotch
-------------
Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson. Walter = a retiring CIA/FBI (one of
them) agent who successfully manages to shred his file while the records
manager distracted with talk of baseball. No formal tracking of files
going out there either!
In the Name of the Father
----------------------------
A records clerk inadvertently gives the barrister (Emma Thomson) the wrong
file, the one that reveals the suppression of evidence that resulted in a
miscarriage of justice.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
------------------------------------
Who had the notebook? Did they check it out? Or update the location??
Insider
----------
In Michael Mann's excellent where Russell Crowe walks out of his office
with confidential information relating to the addictiveness of cigarettes.
This story is loosely based on real events, but the film again shows
ordinary people working under extraordinary circumstances. The fax machine
plays a vital role in this film as does email and the tension generated
around waiting for information to come through is palpable. I also liked
Michael Gambons gold desk pen set.
Jurassic Park
-------------
A library of Dinosaur DNA classified by type.
LA Confidential
----------------
Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce destroy a records store by fighting after one
of them has accessed some of the records. Guy Pearce also manages to find
lots of information from files languishing in the basement.
Messiah 2
----------
TV drama in which past miscarriages of justice were 'corrected' by the
murder of the actual killer along with the policeman who got the wrong
man. In the end it turns out the Police Records Manager did it.
It’s amazing what working in a basement does to you after a while!
Minority Report
----------------
In a RM system of the future, criminals are decommissioned, stored in
suspended animation chambers (in itself, a form of RM) and listed on the
computer along with all their memories and history and offence etc.
Memento
----------
Guy Pierce keeps the record of his life on his own body
Midsomer Murders
--------------------
An episode where the 'archivist' (ie someone who keeps a load of records
in their house!) is murdering bellringers because they put her ancestor in
a well! Warning of the dangers of genealogy there...
Mr Bean
---------
The Library episode where he tears pages out of an archive/old book
Napoleon
----------
Kevin Brownlows restoration of this silent film classic has a scene where
the dramatic destruction of the state records is symbolic of the fall of
the old regime. One of the scenes is set in a vast records centre, where
staff are pulled up and down on rope pulleys to find or return records;
the focus is on one
worker who surreptitiously ate the records of aristocrats so that the
revolutionaries would not identify and execute them.
National Treasure
-----------------
A recent addition to the collection, features 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 apoplectic within seconds.
Office Space
-------------
One of the minor characters is a records clerk responsible for collation
and distribution of reports. During a reorganization, consultants discover
that he was actually laid off, never told, and continued to be paid for 3
years. Rather than inform the poor records clerk that he has been sacked,
the consultants just remove him from the payroll. To add insult to
injury, the records clerk's office is moved 3 times finally resulting in
him being relocated to the basement with no lights & a can of bug spray to
control the roaches.
One Foot in the Grave
-----------------------
Classic British TV sitcom - Pippa sends Mr Meldrew a copy of Patrick's
"Diary", instead of a copy of the letter to the "Dairy", revealing
unfortunate confidential information and demonstrating the need for
accurate data entry and security checks. In another episode, Victor fills
out an order form incorrectly and ends up with 263 garden gnomes!
Passport to Pimlico
-------------------
A deed (which has been misfiled and lost!) proves that Pimlico belongs to
the Duke of Burgundy rather than to the British Crown.
Possession
-----------
The film version of A S Byatt's book has lots of archivally-centred
action, with a researcher discovering a key document in a book at the
London Library, which he then lifts, leading to a quest for a hoard of
previously undiscovered letters in an attic of a random castle with some
rather eccentric owners. Definitely worth watching, if only to cry, 'But
that would never happen!'. Gwyneth Paltrow adds a touch of glamour too.
Presumed Innocent
-------------------
Harrison Ford plays an attorney accused of murdering a colleague and is
seen packing files into an Iron Mountain box!
Raiders of the Lost Ark
-----------------------------------
The closing sequence demonstrating exactly how to hide valuable items in a
warehouse.
Sahara
-------
Penelope Cruz uses events to find dates (not the other way around) -
innovative use of metadata
Serendipity
------------
John Cusack traces Kate Beckinsale using the credit card records of a
department store.
Shoah (http://imdb.com/title/tt0090015/)
--------
Contains a scene where a page showing a week's schedule for a train
represented about 10,000 (if I remember the number correctly) lives as it
was a goods train going from "A", fully laden, to Auschwitz then going on
to "B" empty and so on for a week. The page was discovered in either the
East German or the USSR archives.
Spy Game
------------
Robert Redford uses information systems, maps, press leaks, knowledge of
records management, and amazing chutzpah to save Brad Pitt.
Star Wars
-----------
Darth Vader goes to extraordinary lengths (including the vaporisation of
Princess Leia's home planet), to retrieve the commercially sensitive and
copyrighted plans for the Death Star.
Star Wars Episode II - The Attack of the Clones
-------------------------------------------------
Obi Wan takes Luke Skywalker to try to find records of alien nations which
have already been making clones. The lady archivist has sleek silver hair
swept up into a bun and glasses on the end of her nose and is very wise
and serene!
Obi Wan Kenobi looks at the Jedi Archives for a star system (Kamino) with
no success and Madame Jocasta Nu, Jedi Archivist foolishly states "One
thing you may be absolutely sure of: if an item does not appear in our
records, it does not exist." We all know that no records system is
perfect! All
the files were glowing electronic thing's on shelves going miles high up
into the ceiling. There was some minor controversy about it being based on
a famous Library in Ireland.
Does the Star Wars ref perhaps indicate a finding aid problem or worse
still an inadequate EDRM System? Worse still, the 'item' in question is
actually evidence of a whole planet, not just a boring old title deed. We
probably wouldn't say it didn't exist, but might suggest it was 'in
conservation.' (only kidding – no correspondence please).
Stargate (the movie); Stargate-SG1 (TV series); and Stargate Atlantis (TV
series)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Just marvel at the record keeping practices of 'The Ancients'. If only!
The Anderson Tapes
-----------------------------
Sean Connery in a film about a robbery that is being filmed and recorded
by FBI and persons unknown. At the end an unknown person erases all of the
tapes. So you are left to wonder what an earth the film was all about.
Great shots of old 70's tape machines and an early cameo from a certain
Christopher Walken.
The Bad Girl (Die schreckliche Frau)
-------------------------------------
Women doing research in local archives on Nazi era in her community.
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
-----------------------------
After an exciting series of adventures, the famous Nazi hunter, Jacov
Liebermann, tracks down Dr Jospeh Mengele who has a fiendish plan to
create a number of Adolf Hitler clones. Lieberman is seen consulting his
records in his office.
The Client
----------
The John Grisham movie with Susan Sarandon, who accesses her personal
Records.
The Lives of Others
--------------------
Record-keeping being a staple of an effective fascist regime.
The Spy who came in from the Cold (1966); The Little Drummer Girl (1984);
The Deadly Affair (1967)
--------------------------------------
John Le Carré's novels tend to include mention of a traditional file
registry, complete with obligatory middle-aged female dragon registry
keeper.
The Fellowship of the Ring
------------------------------------------------
Gandalf goes to search some old documents in the Minas Tirith archives,
where he sits in a gloomy, dank room surrounded by piles of dust and
thousands of lit candles. This is a good clip for a training video ("spot
the mistakes...") where just about everything that can be done wrong in an
archive, happens...
- He is led there by a servant who carries a burning brand
- He is left alone in a strongroom without supervision
- He is allowed to smoke (a lot)
- He is provided with a big cup of water that he slurps while poring over
documents
- Documents are stored in piles all over the place, no boxes in sight
- He is allowed as many documents as he wants at the same time
- Archives are covered in dust and cobwebs, that produce great clouds when
he blows on them
- And of course...the archives are at the bottom of a winding stair, in
some dungeon!
The vital document is in there somewhere, and he eventually finds it.
Without the information contained within it the good guys would have lost
and it would have been the end of the world etc...very valuable archives
then, strange how they were not being cared for properly! .
The Firm
---------
Tom Cruise gets the bad guy through his billing records. Lots of lovely
photocopying of documents in the Caribbean that nails the baddies for
money laundering (cf. any film about Al Capone of course...)
The Ipcress File
----------------
Michael Caine tracking down a missing scientist plus his file. Proper file
keeping in this film with lots of grey metal filing cabinets regularly
attended to by a chain smoking secretary. Lots of good hot tea, and
classic views of London with no congestion charging and plenty of parking
spaces around the Royal Albert Hall.
The Odessa File (1974)
------------------------
Peter Miller (Voight) is a freelance reporter on the trail of former SS
Officer Roschmann (Maximillian Schell). Aided by Israeli activists,
Miller comes up against the shadowy Odessa organisation, a
government-approved body providing protection and funding for some of the
Nazi Party's highest-ranking survivors. He searches for and finds a file
listing Odessa members in a remote office.
The Package
-------------------
Major Sergeant Gene Hackman has to visit his ex-wife Col. Joanna Cassidy
who is in charge of military personal records to track down the military
files on Tommy Lee Jones whom is he chasing. The records management
section is very clean and efficient.
The Matrix (1, 2, and 3)
-------------------------
Carrying information and records management issues to the nth degree.
The Rainmaker
---------------
Aside from the 'Stupid, Stupid, Stupid' letter, there is the missing annex
from the claim handling file that requires the denying of all insurance
claims
The Pelican Brief
--------------------------
Considers what one can do with a little bit of research on Lexis Nexis
(TM) and illustrates the dangers of allowing documents to fall into the
hands of public officials
The Ring
--------
Noah Clay gains access to a living person's medical files through
deception
The Name of the Rose
----------------------
The library is arranged in such a way as to make it near impossible
(unless you're the librarian) to get into, find your way around or any
books or information that you might want, and then get out of it. The
book's description of the library is somewhat better than that in the film
that was made of the book, but even so, the film makes clear what a
labyrinth it was. A classic demonstration of the power of information
control.
Three Days of the Condor
---------------------------
Shows how the mosaic effect, in gathering information, can have dangerous
consequences.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
-----------------------------------
Even though it is not a film, the television mini-series of John Le
Carre's has some tense scenes where someone goes into the archives to
remove an important dossier.
X-Files
-------
Many examples of case files. Also, the episode where the Smoking Man is
placing the implants in tubes in the little sectioned plastic container in
the unlabeled shelf box in the unlabeled room in the Pentagon.
Yes Minister (and Yes Prime Minister)
---------------------------------------
Various mentions in this classic British sitcom, for example: The Skeleton
in the Cupboard: The 30-year-rule is about to reveal the name of the young
Civil Servant who made a complete mess of a defence contract. For some
reason Sir Humphrey seems nervous.
The Death List: In this episode, the Minister rejects a petition opposed
to phone tapping that he himself had started while in opposition. He tells
Bernard that it must never been seen again, so Bernard suggests that
instead of destroying it, they file it.
Best Wishes,
Paul
From: George Brierley <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, 20 June 2014, 16:09
Subject: Film suggestions for MA dissertation
Hello everyone, &am p;nb sp; My
name is George Brierley, and I am a postgraduate student at University
College London about to complete my MA in Archives and Records Management
(I finish in September 2014).
I am currently in the middle of conducting the research for my MA
dissertation. The topic of my dissertation is representations of archives
and archivists in feature film. Using past research as well as The
Internet Movie Database and the website The Fictional World of Archives,
Art Galleries and Museums I have managed, so far, to compile a
comprehensive list of roughly 100 film titles that contain representations
of archives and archivists.
However, I am interested in whether anybody knows off hand of any films
that I could perhaps add to the list. I am focusing on fictional
feature-length films released from 1964 to 2014 that have had theatrical
releases (I am aiming to reduce my list to about 15 films for my study).
No television episodes, made-for-television films, television/film
documentaries or short films please. I would be very interested in hearing
people’s responses to this.
Thank you and best wishes,
George Brierley
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