The series provides information on Wartime Production and McKenna Purcell Productions, two companies incorporated by Brian McKenna and Susan Purcell, and used to produce several films, as The Valour and the Horror. The series also provides information on administrative aspects of the Fifth Estate, people McKenna worked with or contracted for his documentaries, and the technology used by McKenna in the 1980s.
The series is organized into the following subseries:
• F1 Fifth Estate
• F2 McKenna Purcell Productions / Wartime Production
The series contains, among other documents, annual reports, budgets, newspaper articles, financial statements, certificates, correspondence, CVs, pamphlets, advertisements, photographs, project proposals, sound recordings, a webpage template, a video, and documents related to the companies’ incorporations.