EP02 · VANISHED

Credits and licenses

Archival images (Wikimedia Commons)

Licensed works (attribution required). Images were cropped, color-graded and animated (changes made).

Ken Lund — Reconstructed earthen fort, Fort Raleigh (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Sarah Stierch — Fort Raleigh earthworks (CC BY 4.0)
Fredlyfish4 — Roanoke Island marshes (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Derby Museums Trust / Portable Antiquities Scheme — 16th-century signet ring (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Portable Antiquities Scheme, S. Wyatt — Border-ware fragment (CC BY 2.0)
Ansgar Walk — Beechey Island graves (CC BY-SA 2.5)
Geni — Franklin relics bought by John Rae (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Kerry Raymond — Bell of HMS Erebus, Gjoa Haven (CC BY 4.0)
FabTet — James Fitzjames daguerreotype (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Chris Downer, Marc Calhoun, JJM / geograph.org.uk — Flannan Isles photographs (CC BY-SA 2.0)
TradingCardsNPS — Pea Island Life-Saving Station (CC BY 2.0)
Vitavia — Sextant boxes (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Eduardo Giacomazzi — Kalapalo men canoeing (CC BY 2.5)
Gargamail — Kuhikugu site plan (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Joann94024 — Earhart Light, Howland Island (CC BY-SA 3.0)
P. Minton — Nikumaroro Atoll (CC BY 2.0)
Rainmaker47 — ATC transponder (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Kentaro Iemoto — Malaysia Airlines 9M-MRO (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Andrew Heneen — MH370 debris map (CC BY 4.0)
C.W. Tan — Anthony Loke (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ashishlohorung, مانفی, CEphoto/Uwe Aranas — "Pray for MH370" (CC BY-SA 3.0)
B.navez — Saint-Pierre, Réunion (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Public domain and CC0

CC0: NicolasPerrault (Back River), Rijksmuseum (John Rae), Yale Center for British Art (Erebus & Terror in a Gale), The Met (rapier), Crawdad Blues (Briggs lap desk), DOM Bénédictine bottle, KLIA arrival hall

Public-domain sources: FBI (Cooper evidence photos, sketches, ticket, money); NARA; U.S. Navy; U.S. Coast Guard; Library of Congress; Royal Museums Greenwich; British Museum (John White); Ulster Museum; NYPL; Internet Archive Book Images; National Park Service; NASA; UK Hydrographic Office; SDASM Archives; Illustrated London News; The Graphic (1896); British Pathé newsreel "Amelia Earhart Disappears" (1937, public domain); HAER (bilge-pump drawing); Sam Hood (State Library of NSW); and other public-domain works via Wikimedia Commons.

Stock video

Stock video: Pixabay (Pixabay Content License) — adege, APVibes, BlenderTimer, Bluesnap, ChristianBodhi, Da_Vid_Acre, digifinio, fotoblend, Hans, janeb13, JayShawflybydrones, Joe_hackney, JoshuaWoroniecki, JuliusH, Kanenori, klimkin, LAWJR, Life-Of-Vids, LisaRedfern, Macb3t, makotosun, Mario_Krimer, Matias_Luge, Matthias_Groeneveld, MattHrusc, MoonpetalMedia, Peter_Hanzo, Placidplace, Relaxing_Guru, TH-DARK-Media, Tolmachev_Alexander, tommyvideo, u_9akpgfw036, Valentin_Aleksandrov, Vimeo-Free-Videos.

Maps and AI

Maps: made with Natural Earth (public domain).

AI reconstructions (labelled on screen): generated with Kling via Higgsfield. The "Dan Cooper" portrait is an AI reconstruction based on the FBI sketches; Amelia Earhart's portrait was colorized by Earthkept. Document graphics marked "reconstruction" are recreated for illustration.

Music

Music (Pixabay): "Cinematic" – alex-morgan · "Total War (Epic Action Cinematic Trailer Main)" – AudioAtlant · "Cinematic Music" – MondaMusic · "Cinematic Music", "Dark Cinematic Thriller", "Dark Cinematic" (x2) – leberch · "Dramatic Epic" – lexin_music · "Suspense Tension Cinematic" – Delosound · "Dramatic" – AtlasAudio · "Sad Emotional", "Rain Music", "Reflective Sad Music", "Melancholic Music" – andriig · "Dark Forest Ambient" – Siarhei Korbut · "Tension Music" – NastelBom · "Cinematic Tension" – sub_clair · "Dark Mystery Trailer (Taking Our Time)" – alexgrohl · "Dark Cinematic" – Tony Vodnik · "Ancient Celtic Epic Soundtrack 03" – Alejandro Piñero Amerio · "Monastic Folk Drone 2" – pietix.

YouTube Audio Library: "Hopeless" – Jimena Contreras · "Tumbleweed Texas" – Chris Haugen.