Research

As any award-winning historian will tell you, the better the research, the better the story. It makes for stories that are rich in detail and insight, rather than simply factual. Steve is a member of Personal Historians Network West and enjoys diving into research by contacting historical societies, film archives, the Library of Congress, National Archives, and many other sources, along with gaining military records, perusing genealogical websites and exploring many more avenues of information and media. Research also includes the painstaking effort to find just the right historical images, archival or stock footage to set the stage for a period, era, or event in the film. As they say, a single picture is worth a thousand words, and when you find the one that’s just right, it’s priceless.