Episode One
When an American property developer arrives in London, he is perplexed at the warm welcome he is given by the employees of a vast photographic archive. It seems there has been a misunderstanding, and he tells the head of the collection that the ten million pictures will have to be sold or destroyed
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. Focused around a photographic library threatened by closure, and the lives of its eccentric staff, it featured Timothy Spall and Lindsay Duncan, was awarded Best Drama Series at the Royal Television Society Awards of the same year and received other international awards, including the Prix Italia.
Cast
Marilyn Truman - Lindsay Duncan
Oswald Bates - Timothy Spall
Christopher Anderson - Liam Cunningham
Veronica - Billie Whitelaw
Spig - Emilia Fox
Nick - Blake Ritson
Garnett - Arj Barker
Styeman - Andy Serkis
Format : MPEG-4
Length : 840 MiB, 1hr 10mns
Video #0 : AVC at 1 500 Kbps
Aspect : 720 x 406 (1.773) at 25.000 fps
Audio #0 : AAC at 160 Kbps
Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz