Challenge

The Regional Oral History Office, also known as ROHO, has for decades conducted interviews in major subject areas pertaining to California and the Western United States, including the California Wine Industry. The feature documentary, America’s Wine: The Legacy of Prohibition, is the first documentary ever produced by the library. For the feature-length film, the Bancroft Library’s production team needed an effective way to manage and access the vast amount of material they had obtained and generated during the making of the program. This included the review of more than 3,000 still images, and nearly 200 hours of video, consisting of interviews and b-roll, most of which was also shot by Beyond Pix Studios. The Director/Producer, Carla D. Worfolk, and her professional colleagues, including Kari Birdseye, Larry Woods and Associate Producers, also needed work space and equipment as part of the review process to assist in their decision-making, for both their off-line and on-line edit sessions.