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The Island Breeze - July 1998
The Graveyard of the Atlantic - 400 Years of Shipwrecks, Mysteries, and
Heroic Rescues, a documentary on one of the most dangerous ocean passages in the world of
the coast of the Outer Banks, has won the prestigious Silver Telly
Award.
Produced by Kevin Duffus of Raleigh, president of Video Marketing Group, the video won the
best documentary in the history category.
The Telly Awards were founded in 1980 to showcase and give recognition to outstanding
non-network and cable television commercials. The competition was expanded several years
ago to include film and video productions, as well as non-network television programming.
Since their inception, the Telly Awards have become a well-known, highly respected
national competition. This year, there were more than 10,000 entries.
The Graveyard of the Atlantic - 400 Years of Shipwrecks, Mysteries, and Heroic Rescues
focuses on the treacherous seas and shifting shoals of the waters off the Outer banks that
have claimed more than 1000 ships since the early days of exploration along the North
Carolina coast.
The 90-minute, two-part documentary tells the story of pirates and ghost ships, of wars
and storms, of brave men who risked their lives to save the survivors of sinking ships,
and of the people of the isolated barrier islands whose lives were shaped by living on the
edge of the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
The story is told for the first time in pictures, including rare film footage and
photographs. It is also told by interviews with the Outer Banks' most foremost historian,
David Stick, and the voices of islanders for whom shipwrecks were a way of life that
brought employment, food, fuel, and lumber to build their homes, churches, and schools.
Duffus became interested in producing the documentary when he was invited to bid on a
promotional video for the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, a shipwreck museum that is
planned for the southern end of Hatteras Island. Joseph Schwarzer, the museum's executive
director, was the documentary's research consultant and assisted in the production. The
museum will benefit from sales of the documentary.
The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum is sponsoring three special showings of the video
this summer on June 25, July 23 and August 13. Each of the showings will be at the
Fessenden Center in Buxton and is free and open to the public.
The documentary is also for sale at various places on the Outer Banks, including the
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum office, above the post office in Hatteras village, at
National Park Service stores and visitor centers, and the North Carolina Aquarium on
Roanoke Island. The cost is $19.95 for each of the two parts. For phone and credit card
orders, call Video Marketing Group at 800-647-3536.
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