Chernobyl Lost Tapes -- USAGM
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- Chernobyl Lost Tapes -- USAGM
- July 22, 2022
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English Chernobyl Lost Tapes – Shevchenko HEAD: New Documentary Presents Unknown Details 1986 Chernobyl Disaster. TEASER: DATE: 07/22/2022 AT 9:30AM PUBLISHED AT: BYLINE: Khrystyna Shevchenko CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Los Angeles VIDEOGRAPHER: Khrystyna Shevchenko VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, Top Hat / Sky / HBO; Pictures by James Jones PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: KE, MAS PLATFORMS: TV only TRT: 2:54 VID APPROVED BY: KE TYPE: TVPKG UPDATE: )) ((INTRO:)) [[In late June, HBO premiered a new documentary called Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, which features newly recovered documents about the events of 1986. VOA Ukrainian interviewed the documentary director James Jones on the details of his work. Khrystyna Shevchenko has the story, narrated by Anna Rice.]] [[COURTESY ALL VIDEO from movie: Top Hat / Sky / HBO; Pictures by James Jones]] ((NARRATION)) The HBO documentary called Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes is about the discovery of unique previously unseen video tapes shot during the aftermath of the Chernobyl tragedy. ((NATS, MOVIE TRAILER)) ((NARRATION)) The footage - kept for over 36 years in the Kyiv Archive - details the nuclear meltdown at the Chernobyl Plant, and the lives of the liquidators - the civil and military personnel sent to deal with the meltdown - and its aftermath. British director and Emmy Award winner James Jones is behind the documentary. ((James Jones, Director of “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes”)) “I met with some guys who had about 30 hours of footage, mainly of the liquidation. So, I sat there with them, we went through this footage, and it was amazing, because it wasn’t just a news piece, with a few shots here and there, but you saw the liquidators’ everyday lives…” ((NARRATION)) Here, liquidators discuss how Moscow would give them 150 grams of vodka daily as a preventative measure against radiation. Here, kids play as white flashes of radiation flare up. One unique find is a film shot by a young cinema school graduate who was sent to record the liquidation process. ((James Jones, Director of “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes”)) “His footage is beautiful, it looks like a movie, it’s so stunning. But he’s never shown it to anyone – not even friends, not even colleagues. There’s a reason he hadn’t shared it before, it was obviously so bound up with the trauma of what he went through at the time…” ((NARRATION)) Part of the documentary is dedicated to showing how the Soviet Union tried to hush up the tragedy. ((James Jones, Director of “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes”)) “Seeing the Soviet coverup, them telling people whose hair is literally falling out and who are getting cancer that it had nothing to do with radiation, it’s just radiophobia, it’s just… Gaslighting an entire nation…” ((NARRATION)) Jones says he sees parallels between the Soviet Union’s coverup of Chernobyl events and Russia’s denial of its war on Ukraine. ((James Jones, Director of “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes”)) “The kind of frightening thing is the film charts this course from Soviet oppression and lies – and then the reaction to that leading to freedom and independence. And Putin is literally trying to turn the clock back.” ((NARRATION)) The Russian government has not commented on the HBO documentary. It took the crew a little over 18 months to put it together. Jones plans to visit Kyiv in late July to organize a special screening of Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes. ((For Khrystyna Shevchenko in Los Angeles, California, Anna Rice, VOA News))
- Transcript/Script Chernobyl Lost Tapes – Shevchenko HEAD: New Documentary Presents Unknown Details 1986 Chernobyl Disaster. TEASER: DATE: 07/22/2022 AT 9:30AM PUBLISHED AT: BYLINE: Khrystyna Shevchenko CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Los Angeles VIDEOGRAPHER: Khrystyna Shevchenko VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, Top Hat / Sky / HBO; Pictures by James Jones PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: KE, MAS PLATFORMS: TV only TRT: 2:54 VID APPROVED BY: KE TYPE: TVPKG UPDATE: )) ((INTRO:)) [[In late June, HBO premiered a new documentary called Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, which features newly recovered documents about the events of 1986. VOA Ukrainian interviewed the documentary director James Jones on the details of his work. Khrystyna Shevchenko has the story, narrated by Anna Rice.]] [[COURTESY ALL VIDEO from movie: Top Hat / Sky / HBO; Pictures by James Jones]] ((NARRATION)) The HBO documentary called Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes is about the discovery of unique previously unseen video tapes shot during the aftermath of the Chernobyl tragedy. ((NATS, MOVIE TRAILER)) ((NARRATION)) The footage - kept for over 36 years in the Kyiv Archive - details the nuclear meltdown at the Chernobyl Plant, and the lives of the liquidators - the civil and military personnel sent to deal with the meltdown - and its aftermath. British director and Emmy Award winner James Jones is behind the documentary. ((James Jones, Director of “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes”)) “I met with some guys who had about 30 hours of footage, mainly of the liquidation. So, I sat there with them, we went through this footage, and it was amazing, because it wasn’t just a news piece, with a few shots here and there, but you saw the liquidators’ everyday lives…” ((NARRATION)) Here, liquidators discuss how Moscow would give them 150 grams of vodka daily as a preventative measure against radiation. Here, kids play as white flashes of radiation flare up. One unique find is a film shot by a young cinema school graduate who was sent to record the liquidation process. ((James Jones, Director of “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes”)) “His footage is beautiful, it looks like a movie, it’s so stunning. But he’s never shown it to anyone – not even friends, not even colleagues. There’s a reason he hadn’t shared it before, it was obviously so bound up with the trauma of what he went through at the time…” ((NARRATION)) Part of the documentary is dedicated to showing how the Soviet Union tried to hush up the tragedy. ((James Jones, Director of “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes”)) “Seeing the Soviet coverup, them telling people whose hair is literally falling out and who are getting cancer that it had nothing to do with radiation, it’s just radiophobia, it’s just… Gaslighting an entire nation…” ((NARRATION)) Jones says he sees parallels between the Soviet Union’s coverup of Chernobyl events and Russia’s denial of its war on Ukraine. ((James Jones, Director of “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes”)) “The kind of frightening thing is the film charts this course from Soviet oppression and lies – and then the reaction to that leading to freedom and independence. And Putin is literally trying to turn the clock back.” ((NARRATION)) The Russian government has not commented on the HBO documentary. It took the crew a little over 18 months to put it together. Jones plans to visit Kyiv in late July to organize a special screening of Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes. ((For Khrystyna Shevchenko in Los Angeles, California, Anna Rice, VOA News))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date July 22, 2022 15:15 EDT
- Description English In late June, HBO premiered a new documentary called Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, which features newly recovered documents about the events of 1986. VOA Ukrainian interviewed the documentary director James Jones on the details of his work. Khrystyna Shevchenko has the story, narrated by Anna Rice.
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America - English