Historic Films announced that their fully digitized online library would be up and running soon. They have also recently taken on the exclusive representation of Film & Video Stock Shots, a long-standing member of the stock footage community. Film & Video Stock Shots specializes in contemporary footage, and Historic "has worked for months to integrate this library into our database and has begun digitizing key parts of the library's 40,000 hours of footage."
Historic is also representing a "lost interview" with Barack Obama from 1993. This obscure 12 minute interview was unearthed by filmmaker Stuart A. Goldman, who used it in his documentary film "Becoming Barack."
With a collection containing over 30,000 different musical performances (1925-2000), Historic Films is a leading source for archival (1895-1990) stock shots, with over 20,000 hours of copyright cleared and fully logged material, encompassing virtually every subject imaginable.
Pearl Jam Twenty, Cameron Crowe's documentary chronicling the rise of Pearl Jam, weaves together some 1,200 hours of rarely and never-before-seen archival footage shot throughout the band's 20-year history with over 24 hours of recent band interviews and concert footage. The result, according to the American Masters website, is "part concert film, part insider hang, part testimonial to the power of music and uncompromising artists…The film celebrates the freedom that allows Pearl Jam to make music without losing themselves, their fans, or the music lovers they’ve always been."
Pearl Jam Twenty premiered on PBS's American Masters series on October 21, 2011.
Visually stunning, factually accurate CGI video stock footage of in utero development is now available online though Natural History New Zealand. The footage comes from National Geographic’s ground breaking In the Womb documentary, and takes the viewer on a journey every human embryo embarks upon; from conception to the moment of birth. For more information, please click here.
Thought Equity footage licensing services are now integrated into the latest edition of Avid's flagship editing systems, Media Composer version 6, NewsCutter version 10 and Symphony version 6. Using the built-in shopping solution called Avid Marketplace, users will be able to search, preview, and download millions of hours of sports, news, entertainment and creative footage from Thought Equity Motion's library directly within Media Composer projects. In addition, users can work with comps and then keep their edits when they license and download high-quality video files.
Click here for a short video overview of the Avid Marketplace.
Over 250,000 screening clips from some of the world’s top stock footage companies are now available for immediate download through Footage.net's stock footage search platform, giving footage researchers a key new tool with which to locate, screen and share screening clips.
Footage researchers have already begun making real use of this powerful new feature, downloading sample clips from many Footage.net partners including Absolutely Wild Visuals, CONUS Archive, FootageBank HD, FRAMEPOOL, Global Image Works, Action Sports/Scott Dittrich Films and StockFood Motion.
“Giving users the ability to download screening clips was just the next logical step in our development as a visual search platform,” said Domenick Propati, Footage.net President. “With over one million clips from some of the world’s top archives now available for screening through our site, our goal is to make sure that researchers have everything they need to take full advantage of our vast footage resource.”
With a growing collection of online screening clips, millions of detailed text records and the addition of this critical new download feature, Footage.net offers footage researchers the tools they need to discover and obtain motion content quickly and easily.
Footage.net is the world’s premier online footage search engine. Since 1994, Footage.net has been the film & video production industry’s most comprehensive resource for serious stock footage research, providing access to over 6 million records and one million online screening clips. At Footage.net, researchers can search over 30 top stock, archival and news footage databases simultaneously from a single site, compare results across multiple collections, find the best motion content and save time.
ITN Source continues its expansion in China having sold 500 minutes of content to the country’s largest television broadcaster, China Central Television (CCTV). It is the fourth deal brokered for ITN by IPCN, the Anglo-Chinese media company created by Mick Desmond and Rebecca Yang.
To mark the launch of the Shanghai EXPO 2010, CCTV is producing 200 x 8 minute films entitled The Legend of EXPO. Through the use of ITN Source footage, the programming will trace the history of EXPO featuring film dating as far back as the 1939 World’s fair in New York to present day. The shows will be broadcast daily before the 10pm news on the biggest channel in the country CCTV-1, from 12 April right through to the end of the Shanghai Expo on 31 October.
Asha Oberoi, Managing Director of ITN Source said: “This is a significant content deal for ITN Source and we’re delighted to be working with China’s largest broadcaster.
“International growth is a key priority for ITN Source and our content spans all continents and has real relevance in the global marketplace. We’re looking forward to building our relationship with CCTV and expanding our content offering into other areas of their business.”
Miss Yang Xu, General Manager of IPCN added: “We are thrilled to broker the deal for ITN with CCTV; the cooperation will significantly increase the publicity of ITN Source business in the Chinese media industry, which potentially opens up tremendous opportunities.”
Through IPCN, ITN has a number of other deals in place in the Chinese market. For ITN Source this includes providing footage to FLTRP, the country’s biggest foreign language education publisher and Shanghai Media Group. ITN Productions also produces a daily programme called Cool Edition for ICS, the biggest English speaking channel in China. The programme attracts 11 million viewers every night.
BBC Motion Gallery, the international stock footage arm of BBC Worldwide, has promoted Paul Maidment to lead the team following the departure of Simon Gibbs in February. Paul will become Director, BBC Motion Gallery and will manage the business and oversee its strategic direction, particularly following its new partnership with Thought Equity Motion agreed in October 2009. The new global partnership will see both companies share extensive libraries across a range of genres on a recently re-launched powerful and innovative website.
Paul joined BBC Motion Gallery in 2003 as Business Development Director and, alongside Simon Gibbs, helped to launch the company. The business now successfully represents over one million hours of footage that spans across a variety of genres including natural history, sport, news, locations, art, music and many more. Paul will also oversee BBC Motion Gallery's growing global Education business with Jan Ross leading the effort in the Americas.
Commenting on his newly appointed position, Paul Maidment said: "I am thrilled to be leading BBC Motion Gallery through its next phase of development. With its recent partnership with Thought Equity Motion, the business will present some really interesting challenges especially driving our content forward digitally and broadening the availability of our unique content to creative producers, online publishers and filmmakers worldwide."
Paul will report to Tim Mutimer, Senior Vice President for EMEA in the Sales and Distribution division of BBC Worldwide.
According to recent article in the New York Times, "C-SPAN has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet." The C-SPAN Video Library is an impressive site, featuring not only every program aired since 1987, at a total of 160,000 hours, but also pages devoted to all members of congress. "All C-SPAN programs since 1993 are digital and can be viewed online for free," according to the C-SPAN website. "Duplicate copies of programs that have aired since 1987 can be obtained and used for education, research, review or home viewing purposes."
For anyone looking to license C-SPAN archival footage or programs for commercial usages, the site provides an online form for licensing requests.
While viewers can only stream clips at the moment, an online, searchable database of video footage of this scale is still a huge asset to documentary filmmakers and other big users of archival footage. According to the New York Times, plans are in the works to allow for downloads.
The C-SPAN Archives "records all three C-SPAN networks seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Programs are extensively indexed making the database of C-SPAN programming an unparalleled chronological resource," according to the C-SPAN site. "Programs are indexed by subject, speaker names, titles, affiliations, sponsors, committees, categories, formats, policy groups, keywords, and location. The congressional sessions and committee hearings are indexed by person with full-text. The video collection can be searched through the online Video Library."
Monterrey-based Footage Search recently announced the latest expansion to its OceanFootage and NatureFootage stock footage collections with the official unveiling of all-new Red One 4K footage. The collection is growing weekly and delivery is available as master RED Raw 4K files or as HD ProRes compressed formats. The footage is being sourced from renowned cinematographers worldwide and features a growing variety of habitats and species from the deep sea to the world’s mountaintops. A sampling of subjects currently in the OceanFootage and NatureFootage collections include a new take on ocean sunsets, crashing and crystal clear waves from topside to inside and beneath the waves, coral reefs teaming with life, sea lions, seals and other marine mammals, bait balls, city skylines, agriculture, majestic mountain ranges from around the globe, beautiful forests of all varieties from tropical to temperate, and rarely captured behavior of bobcats, rattlesnakes, hawks and eagles, coyotes, and so much more.
“OceanFootage and NatureFootage will both see a rapid increase of Red One 4K footage online,” announced company founder and president Dan Baron. “We have an impressive amount of material already acquired, and anticipate enormous growth of Red One 4K content by the end of the year. The creative possibilities of what one can do with this amazing footage format are endless.”
For more information on the Red One 4K footage available at the OceanFootage and NatureFootage websites please visit: OceanFootage and NatureFootage. Footage Search Inc., founded in 2002, is a leading provider of nature and wildlife stock footage, supplying premium content to production houses worldwide through the OceanFootage and NatureFootage web sites.
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has promoted Paul Maidment to lead the team following the departure of Simon Gibbs in February. Paul will become Director, BBC Motion Gallery and will manage the business and oversee its strategic direction, particularly following its new partnership with Thought Equity Motion agreed in October 2009. The new global partnership will see both companies share extensive libraries across a range of genres on a recently re-launched powerful and innovative website.
uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet." The 