Nothing synthetic is presented as archive
Where original visual records do not survive, reconstructions may be used. They carry a permanent on-screen label for their full duration and are listed in the end credits.
Editorial policy
Reconstruction and AI
This production uses reconstruction sparingly and declares it openly. If you cannot tell whether something on screen is real, we have failed.
The rules
No living person is synthesised
No reconstruction places a living person in an event that did not occur, puts words in their mouth, or recreates their likeness without written consent.
No named deceased individual is recreated
Reconstructions depict generic, representative figures unless the family has given explicit written permission and the depiction is evidenced.
Reconstruction follows research, not imagination
Every reconstructed scene is built from a documented reference: a photograph, a plan, a written description or a witness account, recorded against the scene in the planner.
Real archive is always preferred
A scene may only be reconstructed after the archive search is logged as exhausted and the outcome recorded in the scene register.
Disclosure is published, not buried
The end credits carry a full reconstruction disclosure listing each reconstructed sequence, its evidence base and the tool used.
On-screen material labels
Every shot in the film carries one of these labels in its record, and reconstructed material carries it on screen.
- Original archive photograph
Original archive photograph
- Original archive footage
Original archive footage
- Licensed stock footage
Licensed stock footage
- Present-day location footage
Present-day location footage
- Dramatic reconstruction
Dramatic reconstruction
- AI-assisted reconstruction
AI-assisted reconstruction
- Illustrative map
Illustrative map
- Family archive
Family archive
- Document
Document
- Audio
Audio
Standing negative prompt
Every reconstruction brief generated by the production carries this exclusion list, so that historically inaccurate, disrespectful or misleading imagery is ruled out before anything is produced.
- modern vehicles
- modern road markings
- modern street furniture
- modern clothes
- modern hairstyles
- mobile phones
- LED lighting
- plastic window frames
- satellite dishes
- incorrect religious clothing
- incorrect flags
- incorrect mosque architecture
- incorrect railway branding
- incorrect airport signage
- modern packaging
- modern shop logos
- anachronistic machinery
- distorted hands
- duplicated people
- unreadable text
- artificial skin
- excessive cinematic lighting
If in doubt
Where the production team cannot agree whether a reconstruction is justified, the default is not to use it. Accuracy outranks ambition, and the community's trust outranks both.