The challenge: Highlight the breadth, diversity and depth of content available at the Hulton Archive in London. Laurie Hill’s animated film does exactly that and more—it’s a wild ride where fact and fiction collide. The institution’s archive is basically a basement filled with shelves and stacked with boxes that hold folders of stills and film footage. In this fantasy—which is based upon stories of strange inquiries for impossible photographs—a door opens into an imaginative time and place where unruly images have a life of their own and enjoy mixing with their fellow celluloids. —MD