Jerome Kuehl

[10] Kuehl worked for the NBC European Unit in the 1960s[11] and wrote the documentary Chicago Blues for director Harley Cokeliss in 1970.

[15][16] In 1982 Channel 4 began transmission of the first of three series of his programme Today's History,[17] described as looking at "official newsfilm and discover(ing) discrepancies between the way events have been presented and accounts of what actually happened".

[19] Subjects featured in the first series included: Poland (with Neal Ascherson), Women (with Juliet Gardiner) and Marx (with Stuart Hall).

They would require, he wrote, “considerable experience of current affairs television, versatility, good humour and, above all, sympathy with and knowledge of many different viewpoints and people, not all of them sympathetic.” [22] The historian Taylor Downing commented: Fascinating discussions ensued on political, economic and cultural subjects.

[24] In 1998 the Observer newspaper quoted Kuehl on what he called the misuse of archive film in British television: Things were being fudged...Battles were being misidentified.

For many years he was a Council member of IAMHIST, the organisation that publishes the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.

Thus the Cat could – and did – find ‘film’ of Adolf Hitler marrying Eva Braun in the Führerbunker; of the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903; and of the iceberg which sank the Titanic.