Hi I’m Annabel , I'm an archive producer based in Bromley Kent.

I have worked in TV since I started in 2005, starting out as an Archive Researcher, then switching to do a couple of years as a Production Co-ordinator and then in 2010 deciding that it was archive research that made me happy.

I was lucky enough to join Ren... Read More

Hi I’m Annabel , I'm an archive producer based in Bromley Kent.

I have worked in TV since I started in 2005, starting out as an Archive Researcher, then switching to do a couple of years as a Production Co-ordinator and then in 2010 deciding that it was archive research that made me happy.

I was lucky enough to join Renegade Pictures in 2006 and became the inhouse Archive researcher and then Archive Producer in 2014, working an innovative series for Discovery; Tony Robinson’s World War 1 in 3D, which is still repeated regularly on Discovery to this day.
Thankfully, my staff role at Renegade Pictures allowed me to work on singles and series on a vast range of subjects. I have extensive knowledge of the British Royal Family, WW1, Ukraine/Russia War, NASA’s Artemis Program to name a few. As well as the physical and paper delivery to PBS, Discovery, Smithsonian, Silvermouse (BBC/C4/ITV & Nat Geo) including clearing commercial music and swapping out archive and music for Int. versions.

I am able to produce full logged/tracked edl’s as well as documents to accompany legal review.

From picking up the threads of edits where the previous archive logging has not been structured properly, I understand the complete production anxiety that comes with not having good organisation from the start or good communication with the edit and so I hope to take the strain, so that as the online approaches the archive is not something that adds tot the stress. I am also aware from years of completing the paper delivery whilst at Renegade Pictures, that being meticulous with documenting from the start makes the delivery easy.

Now that I am freelance, I have maintained a good relationship with all the main archive sources I have worked closely with, but I am passionate about finding lost or forgotten archive that’s languishing in University libraries or private collections.
For example, I am very proud that I managed to located a magnetic copy of Duke of Windsor’s infamous speech from France after his abdication, which was banned from broadcast in UK at the time (transcript in National press). This speech was placed under D Notice by the British Gov. as Edward is seen to be pro Nazi in it by calling for appeacement with Hitlers government. I found the full audio copy in a University Library in the US that was recorded magnetically at the time from CBS radio  and was able to do an inter library transfer, so we could then broadcast sections of it for the very first time. Read Less