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Shooting the Past is a television drama by Stephen Poliakoff, produced by TalkBack Productions for BBC Two and first shown in 1999. It was TalkBack's first drama production, the company being mainly known for its television comedy work.
Shooting the Past: With Lindsay Duncan, Timothy Spall, Liam Cunningham, Billie Whitelaw. A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him.
Shooting The Past (1999) Written and Directed by Stephen Poliakoff. Stephen Poliakoff’s series of linked television plays take us on a mysterious journey back in time. A London library with a monumental collection of rare photographs is faced with extinction.
S1.E1 ∙ Part One. The staff of the Fallon Photo Library and Collection are left reeling when their new Americn owners decide to break up the archive and sell off the cherished Man Ray photographs. Archivist Oswald Bates is determined to fight to the end.
Shooting the Past. A photo librarian (Lindsay Duncan) and her staff resist the efforts of their building's new owner (Liam Cunningham) to disperse their collection.
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Mr Poliakoff comes up trumps once again, Shooting the past is an exquisite drama, a little story one could argue, which becomes something magical, the past is brought to the future in the incredibly moving way that only Poliakoff can do.
Nov 19, 1999 · Ostensibly the story of a tug-of-war between old and new, England and America, “Shooting the Past” centers on the Fallon Photo Library, one of those musty-dusty obscure Brit institutions ...
