They took the enormous 75,000-piece archive offered by Mr. Bowie and used pieces to catch the flavor of time and place.
Not bad for a piece of archive TV featuring a war between giant fibreglass ants that bump into the camera and bee-like moths that fly like pantomime Peter Pans.
Their scheduled FA Cup third-round tie at home to Blackpool had been postponed 11 times, and, as the same piece of archive reveals, they were willing to try just about anything by the end.
In one piece of archive footage in Loach's film, a woman says, after her house has been destroyed by a German bomb: "But I only cleaned my windows yesterday".
But the memory of the visit flooded back last weekend when I encountered a piece of archive film of the tortoises in the Codebreaker exhibition at London's Science Museum.
The discovery of a short piece of archive showing crowds waiting in Glasgow for Lauder at the film's premiere gives them hope that one day the film itself will be recovered.
Featuring two remarkable historical finds, including a piece of archive footage filmed from an airship in summer 1919, capturing the trenches and battlefields in a way that has rarely been seen before.
The latest of these is with the Swedish brand Acne, which has printed its signature leather pieces with archive Liberty designs.
By contrast, Updike pieced his archive together himself and delivered the material several times a year, driving down to Cambridge from Beverly Farms, Mass., and carrying in tidily packed cartons.
The rest of 10,000-piece photo archive, including shots of Latin musicians, orchestras and ensembles from the 1920's to the present, is either in plastic wrap in closets or crammed into stuffed file drawers.
The centennial coincides with The Times's transfer of historic sections of its clippings file, which includes roughly 22 million articles, to the New York Public Library, and also with the gift of 300 of the most important photographs from the newspaper's 17-million-piece picture archive to the Museum of Modern Art, where they will be known as The New York Times Collection.
