Research / Online Video Archive / Documentary
To lead this project, Associate Producer Bob Powers asked historian and film curator, Dr. Mark Woods, a researcher at the University of South Wales and formerly at Florida International University.
Working with local researchers, archivists and talented Miami film crews, Dr. Woods will lead the research project, culminating in the creation of a unique, online repository of:
- Folksonomies
- Oral histories
- Family heirloom artwork
- Rare photographs
- Links to other local history archives,
- User-interactive search tool for families, friends and researchers.
While the online archive is being created, interviews will be conducted and edited into narrated segments of a made for television documentary, based on the entire historical research project.
Dr. Woods has organized a research project that will accomplish three goals:
Collect, collate and annotate the related research documents and memorabilia connected with each interview;
Conduct and videotape and/or record interviews with key individuals, while they are still vibrant and capable of sharing these stories;
Produce an online video archive, resulting in a television documentary film, featuring narrated highlights of this timely research and remarkable, real life interviews with the last generation of the ‘Miami Pioneers’.
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