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. Shooting the Past delves into a world quite separate from... modern life, and demonstrates that the preservation of the past, in order to tell the extraordinary stories of the lives of ordinary people, can be astonishingly powerful and revealing. An American company buys the building in which the Fallon Photo Library is kept, planning a complete remodeling and modernisation to turn it into a business school. The company president, Christopher Anderson, had informed one of the members of staff, Oswald, but Oswald fails to pass on the news.
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| Release date: | January 10, 1999 |
| Directed by: | Stephen Poliakoff |
| Producer: | John Chapman |
| Editor: | Paul Tothill |
| Music by: | Adrian Johnston |
| Cinematography: | Bruno de Keyzer, Ernie Vincze |
| Screenplay by: | Stephen Poliakoff |