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New Title head scratcher

I produced one of a trilogy of documentaries for Bill Moyers' "Realizing America's Hope" project, released in 1991, the following link on billmoyers.com showing an excerpt from "All Our Children", a 90-minute documentary that his team produced: https://billmoyers.com/content/children-needs-picture/. The doc I produced (don't blame me for the exceedingly long title), "Making the Dream Work for Our Children" isn't to found online, though I'm in the process of getting SCETV archives to pull the 1" tape for digitization and posting online. I also have print collateral referring to this half-hour doc that can substantiate the title, but the question is how approach creating a Title for the doc I produced, shot, wrote, and edited, such that it connects to the parent project, Realizing America's Hope, when that's the name of the overarching project targeting At Risk Youth, but itself isn't a film. Note, it's in my interest to link this work to the late, great Bill Moyers, the reason motivating my effort to contextualize my contribution to the trilogy. This link to Toronto Metropolitan University Archives & Special Collections helps substantiate "Realizing America's Hope": https://atom-mirror.rula.info/index.php/realizing-americas-hope-comprehensive-initiative-to-help-american-respond-to-challenges-facing-its-youth. I also have a binder containing VHS tapes and printed guides that was used for public outreach, can scan that collateral. Thanks for advising how I deal with the structural issue here, i.e. if I simply create a new title for "All Our Children", it's not like I can add a credit to that film directly. Might it be an idea, however, to begin with exactly that, then in adding a credit, might I select "other" for the type of credit, opening the door to provide the context of these three films within the larger "Realizing America's Hope" project? Many thanks for advising.

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Benjy: Can you please help clarify the situation by describing the project better? Was the overall title of this series of documentaries "Realizing America's Hope"? What were all of the individual documentaries within the series? There is *already* an entry in IMDb at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12746360/ for All Our Children with Bill Moyers (1991). Was that a single entry within this one series? How, where, and when were these docs distributed or released to the public? If they were released by being broadcast on television, that might qualify them as a miniseries, in which case each of them would be individual episodes. The more you can clarify what this title's entry is supposed to be, the easier it will be to advise you.

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Bill Moyers worked with SCETV to produce the disparate moving parts of the "Realizing America's Hope" campaign, which I called a trilogy, indeed it featuring three documentaries: 1 - "All Our Children" 2 - "Investing In Our Youth" 3 - "Making the American Dream Work for Our Children" Was Moyers' entry in a series? At 90-minutes to our 30-minutes, it was surely the centerpiece, shot on 16mm, not Beta SP, and I was told this was a trilogy, but a series?, fine by me. Note, the binder I was given paints the broad picture. In one document a statistical summary breaks down the numbers of PBS stations that recorded for broadcast and repeat broadcast the three docs, the numerous teleconferences and call-in shows with scores of politicians, community leaders, students, and government officials participating. I was told Realizing America's Hope won a Peabody for Community Outreach, though checking with my contacts at The Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, they've thus far only turned up an entry for "All Our Children". To answer directly to your question, how and when where these docs distributed or released to the public, the binder contains a Fax Communication, the Statistical Summary under my doc title states, "128 PBS stations recorded/hosted/or aired the teleconference or Making documentary". I'm anticipating having a link soon from my contacts at SCETV archives for the doc, but it's in my interest to link the title to "Realizing America's Hope", if that could be called a mini-series, even if it was much more than that. I don't see it being linked to "All Our Children" for obvious reasons. I happily scan the relevant docs from the binder. Many thanks for your time. This binder also contains three print materials, a collaboration guide for communities and schools, a legislative book, and "strategies to involve families and communities in school guidance".