Documentary - No Bridge Too Far

[Walt's Daughter]

Been learning a lot the past two weeks, for I've contacted several different groups via the internet and phone, regarding use of materials. The majority I've reached, said they merely need me to place their names in the credit section of the documentary. Cool, I CAN do that. However, I finally spoke with Paramount Studios today (they were really nice and helpful), but for a limited PBS license (2-3 years), it would cost me approximately $500.00 to use the two stills from White Christmas. So....I think I shall delete them from the production and use something else in their place. That's okay with me. It would have been nice, but it's really not a big deal. I have a ton of other images I can replace it with.

 

Here's a really cool thing which also occurred this week. I sent this letter to everyone on my 36th Engineer mailing list:

 

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Yesterday I spent about 25 minutes on the phone with this lady:

 

Renée Klish

Army Art Curator

U.S. Army Center of Military History

Washington, D.C.

 

I had written to them to gain permission to use a certain drawing, which is on our website, as well as featured in the intro to the documentary. As many of you are well aware, you have to make sure you can use certain materials within productions, and No Bridge Too Far is no exception. Let's put it this way; we don't wanna mess with lawyers and...

 

So to cover all my bases, I am contacting various agencies, etc., to make sure I can use certain images, film clips, etc., and that is how I wound up talking to Renee, for she emailed me and said, get in touch with me.

 

Well I'm sure glad I did, for they have a WEALTH of artwork regarding combat engineers in WWII, and I may use anything I wish. I am in heaven.

 

But, there's a specific reason I am writing tonight, for when we were chatting she happened to mention she had some artwork donated by a daughter and she mentioned the words, 36th Combat Engineer. I just about fell off my chair. Huh? Then she gave me this name and said the daughter who lives in Massachusetts, donated all the drawings her father created and she happened to email the attached image, while we were speaking. It's awesome. His name was Brovsky Sagatalian. He died in 2000.

 

I'll keep you posted, for I have to see what they have available online, and then get back in touch with her. She said she would send me high resolution images of anything I wish. Talk about manna from heaven.

 

Enjoy the image.

 

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Well, just wanted to keep y'all posted on the latest. It's great to be making progress and discovering how to do things, and what I can and cannot do.

 

Now the next thing...gonna need more young men to assist me with voice-overs, for I've added more veterans to the project. To those who have already volunteered, will be sending more material your way very soon. To all; thanks in advance.