Mysteries in the Archives: 1910 Buffalo Bill

200825 min 56 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Alexandre Auque

Production: Florence Fanelli

Co-produced by ARTE France and Institut national de l'audiovisuel with the participation of Centre National de la Cinématographie, in association with YLE Teema - Ritva Leino and RTSI-Televisione Svizzera, and with the participation of the National Film Board of Canada.

This title is an acquisition.

Buffalo Bill was, by reputation, the greatest buffalo hunter of all time. His celebrity included a stint as cavalry scout for George Armstrong Custer, the general killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. But film of William F. Cody shot as early as 1894 and through 1916 presents another image of Buffalo Bill. These images reveal his friendly relations with American Indian tribal chiefs. Footage of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, which toured the United States and Europe for more than 30 years, documents its early, considerable influence on a film genre that still fascinates movie goers: the Western.

Subject categories


  • History > Historical PerpectivesWorld History

Credits


idea
Serge Viallet
Cédric Lépée
series director
Serge Viallet
director
Alexandre Auque
editor
Vanessa Bozza
assistant editor
Clarisse Gilbert
Bertrand Amiot
graphic design
Stéphanie Mée
Cédric Babel
Vadim Androussoff
historical research
Cedric Gruat
assistant
Armelle Jayet
musical illustration
Niels Poux
image masking
Alexandre Auque
dressing conception
Alexandre Auque
credit sequence design
Philippe Truffault
credit sequence production
Philippe Truffault
credit sequence editor
François Labat
colour correction
Rémi Berge
translator
Dana Burns Westberg
narrator
Dana Burns Westberg
documentary research
Marie Bessi
Serge Viallet
Michael Dolan
sound design
Laurent Thomas
mix
Laurent Thomas
post-production manager
Rita Lourdemarianadin
post-production technician
Daniel Ricard
broadcast mastering
Vincent Legrain
image restoration
Emmanuel Laroche
video transfer
Eric Queille
Marc Grandhomme
production manager
Thierry Ippolito
production assistant
Vincent Encontre
commissioning editor
Elisabeth Hulten
administrator
Françoise Tsitsichvili
Yasmine Boucherat
producer
Florence Fanelli
head of production
Xavier Marliangeas