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Framepool researchers discover unseen JFK footage – Germany 1963
↑ Researchers at Munich based stock footage collective Framepool recently found a 35mm color archival film reel never before available to the public.
They say: ‘Cameramen of the US Airforce shot the footage about the state visit of President John F. Kennedy in Hanau and Wiesbaden, June 25th and 26th 1963. It was the first visit of an American President in Germany after World War II. President Kennedy was welcomed by the German people with abounding enthusiasm. Hundred of thousands lined the streets to welcome the young and charismatic American leader.’
A film from the newly found collection will be shown at the Wiesbaden loves JFK exhibition at the Wiesbaden city museum and in the Caligary cinema Wiesbaden.
View and License videoclips of President Kenndys state visit to Germany in 1963
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Internet Archive expands TV news footage search facility with $1m support fund
San Francisco based Internet Archive, one of the world’s largest public digital libraries, will expand its research library to make readily available hundreds of thousands of U.S. television news programs, with $1 million in support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
With this funding, the archive will expand its TV News Search & Borrow service, which now includes 400,000 broadcasts dating back to June 2009. The aim is to help strengthen the work of journalists, scholars, teachers, librarians, civic organizations and others.
The service uses closed captioning to allow users to search, quote and borrow U.S. TV news programs. Available at no charge, the public can use the index of searchable text and short-streamed clips to explore TV news. In this way, they can discover important resources, better understand context, verify facts and share insights. The research service does not facilitate downloading, but individuals have the opportunity view whole programs at the Internet Archive’s library in San Francisco or borrow them on DVD-ROMs.
“We are beginning to see important public benefits arising from this new capability to apply digital search and analysis to news from our most pervasive and persuasive medium— television,” said Roger Macdonald, Internet Archive television news project director. “Documentarians are finding key news footage to license. Educators are showing their students how news stories are told and audiences are engaged. Researchers are using it to identify important trends across the media landscape.”
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Interview: Ben Jones, Head of Motion – Science Photo Library
Here is the first in a series of interviews by Footage News we’re calling ‘Getting-To-Know-The-Library’.
More to follow next week!
Name: Ben Jones
Position: Head of Motion
Stock footage Agency: Science Photo Library – SPL
Explain Science Photo Library in a sentence:
We collate and create unique, accurate and informative clips about the world around us, the processes that shape it, and the research that reveals how it works.
Q. When did you decide to start offering stock footage?
Around the start of 2007, although it had long been discussed.
…..Click here for the full interview with Ben on our Features page
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Interview: Ben Jones Head of Motion – Science Photo Library
Footage News Exclusive:
Here is the first in a series of interviews by Footage News we’re calling ‘Getting-To-Know-The-Library’ – more to follow!
Name: Ben Jones
Position: Head of Motion
Stock footage Agency: Science Photo Library
Explain Science Photo Library in a sentence:
We collate and create unique, accurate and informative clips about the world around us, the processes that shape it, and the research that reveals how it works.
Q. When did you decide to start offering stock footage?
Around the start of 2007, although it had long been discussed.
Q. Why?
Around that time, the move to digital workflows within the industry made it more accessible to us, as it obviated the need for us to handle tape and film. On top of that, around the same time, devices and technologies were emerging that allowed our existing still image client base to utilise video in their new products, which meant that we had a developing market that knew us and would find uses for our clips. Taken together, they made a compelling case for taking the plunge.
Q. Which stock footage subjects are you offering now?
We divide the collection into seven broad subject areas: Science & Technology, Health & Medicine, Environment, Space & Spaceflight, Animals, Plants and History.
Each has a dedicated showreel on our home page.
Running through all of those subject categories, though, we specialise in science education, following the curriculum to produce material likely to be of use to publishers of electronic learning resources, and also specialise in using the latest scientific imaging techniques to visualise subjects in a novel way.
Q. All stock – or do you also license editorial and feature video?
We do licence clips taken from TV shows etc, but we licence it all as stock clips.
Q. Have you needed to employ new staff to cater for the footage/video market?
Yes, we have employed two dedicated video editors to create and manage the video workflow, as well as creating my role to manage it all. Much of the sales and back-office work has been undertaken by the existing stills staff, who are kept up to date with the demands and complexities of the new product.
Q. What in your view is the largest hurdle when starting to offer footage stock?
Putting the technological infrastructure in place for the video archive was a serious task – we’d been amassing footage for less than a year when we overtook the storage requirements of the 26-year-old stills library, for instance. With that in place, the biggest ongoing task is marketing it to the new clients – the stock footage industry is quite different to the one we knew in stills.
Q. Is there a standard industry pricing structure for editorial and creative stock?
Similar distinctions apply as with stills, with pricing tiers for RM, RF, micro and subscription, and mixed in with that sites that allow contributors to set their own prices, and then there’s per clip versus per second billing on top of that. There are broad groupings by industry that have developed, for instance in TV production rates, where things are more mature and seem more stable, but plenty of agencies are trying different things in different sectors all the time.
Q. Where do your requests come from? individual researchers, production companies?
Production companies generally seem to hire freelance researchers for a specific project, and then the researcher moves on to the next company and project. Many of the requests come from these researchers. With other clients, for instance publishing, it’s more likely to be permanent in-house research staff. And as well as those, there are always the random ones that come out of the blue.
Q. Which are the most regular video formats requested for license?
HD footage is the most popular, even for people not making HD programmes. We do downsize to PAL or NTSC for some clients. We send everything out with Photo JPEG compression, which seems universally accepted.
Q. How do you ensure your footage is credited?
It’s a condition of the terms & conditions, although in practice it’s hard to enforce, especially for TV uses.
Q. How do you currently deliver licensed footage?
Mostly by FTP, but if it’s a large order we can send discs or even drives. More recently we have developed an e-commerce platform and the ability for registered clients to download directly from our website.
Q. Are any of your stills contributors supplying footage?
Yes, a lot of them were producing footage and animations long before we supplied it. Some contributors have moved into footage with the arrival of cameras like the Canon 5d MkII, which shoots fine video and stills.
Q. Which footage subjects are you looking to increase content in?
Science education and specialist imaging are our big target areas.
Q. What was your best seller this month (MAY)?
Our best deal so far this month has been for three medical scans: this brain ,this heart and this chest
Q. Any exclusive stock?
More than half of our clips are exclusive, and a good amount of them are wholly-owned, including the brain and heart above. We’ve shot chemistry experiments, biology demonstrations, hospitals, doctors and nurses, and created animations in healthcare, chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics and astronomy… it didn’t look like there was anyone out there making it for stock, so we had to take matters into our own hands!
Q. Whats new at SPL?
We get amazing new footage in constantly: we’ve recently taken on an authoritative weather collection, mathematical modelling, some incredible electron microscope movies, the start of an encyclopaedic collection of cell biology animations and we’ve just completed a shoot filming human parasites at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Away from the footage, there’s been a promising start since last year’s launch of our e-commerce-enabled website, which has seen some good uses already. Internally, we’ve been streamlining our workflow and processes to speed up the delivery of clips to clients and agents, which is less glitzy but just as important.
– ENDS –
Thanks for your time on this Ben!
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ABC Library supplies Rugby Lions marketing campaign footage
Rugby Footage licensed for Lions Marketing Campaigns
ABC Library Sales supplied footage to both the ARU and principle sponsor HSBC to coincide with the upcoming British & Irish Lions rugby union tour.
Footage of legendary Scottish player Gavin Hastings from the Lions 1989 tour was supplied to HSBC for their YouTube channel, and the Australian Rugby Union acquired match footage from the same tour for their “Where Were You?” website campaign.
View the clips here
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FootageNews.com – for the stock footage and video content industry
Welcome to FootageNews.com a NEW news site for the stock footage and video content licensing industry.
• Created by the team behind the successful stock photo industry news site PhotoArchiveNews.com
• Please send news items and enquires to [email protected] or call UK 07802437827
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Getty Images VP Creative Content – The future of the video industry
Senior Vice President for Creative Content, Andrew Saunders, shares his insight on the next steps in video, showcasing some of the cutting-edge technology Getty Images’ global network of contributors are employing to produce the latest ground-breaking content.
“Video consumption is growing at a very rapid pace, especially via online and mobile platforms, as well as motion enabled advertising like billboards and Adshels. Advertisers are continually finding innovative ways to engage with consumers,” Andrew Saunders , Senior Vice President, Creative at Getty Images said. “Getty Images will be excited to share our creative insight, trend discovery and vast video content offering with delegates at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.”
Getty Images is collaborating with award-winning production and installation artists The Light Surgeons to produce a dynamic video wall at this year’s Festival which will feature creative content that explores visionary themes. Forming a powerful center at the back of the Ortega space in the Palais des Festivals, the bespoke wall, made up of 24 synonymous screens will allow delegates to interact and engage with Getty Images content in an unparalleled and interactive manner.
In addition, Getty Images’ relationship with The Light Surgeons will surpass collaboration at Cannes Lions, through a continued relationship as the company brings them on board as a new contributor.
For the 16th consecutive year, Getty Images will continue its sponsorship and support of the Young Lions Competition at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The competition pits the world’s best talented, young creative teams against the clock to produce an award-winning campaign. Getty Images will be the exclusive content provider for the competition, enabling contestants to draw from its broad range of creative, editorial, archival and music collections, to help them produce inspiring and award-winning work of their own.
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New Release: Getty Images – latest stock footage ad
Getty Images have released this latest stock footage advert created by AlmapBBDO
Credits:
Advertiser: Getty Images | Title: 85 seconds | Product: Video Stock
General Creative Director: Marcello Serpa, Luiz Sanches
Creative Director: André Kassu, Marcos Medeiros, Renato Simões e Bruno Prosperi
Creation: Marcos Kotlhar, Sophie Schoenburg
Agency Producer: Vera Jacinto, Rafael Motta, Charles Nobili
Production Company: ZOLA
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Clipcanvas – website upgrade targets wider audience
Norwegian based video marketplace agency Clipcanvas are online with a new look website with more user-friendly and intuitive tools. The agency offers ‘videos for any project’. Comprising more than 450.000 clips, crowd-sourced through thousands of videographers.
According to Cato Salter, founder and CEO for Clipcanvas, the change has been an ongoing process, “We have been discussing this for a long time, several years actually, but we were so passionate about our user interface and constantly got great feedback from those using it, so this has been a hard decision to make. Still, we decided that the best way to take advantage of some of the new abilities in CSS3 and modern web design techniques was to opt for a more traditional user experience. We killed our darling, and now we’re ready to see it rise from the ashes.”
Clipcanvas have also made a big change in their market approach, targeting a wider audience signified by their new main slogans ‘Get videos for any project’ and ‘We help people tell stories every day – Let us be part of yours.’ Cato explains, “Well, this is really what it’s all about, helping people tell stories. It’s the essence of what we do. Our main users today are filmmakers, videographers and video editing and post-production artists, but in the years to come we are 100% sure the use of video to tell stories will be widespread.” He goes on, “In many settings where images are used for communication today, video will be used tomorrow. Video drives todays development of portable devices, like mobile and pads, people consume entertainment like never before, and it is only a matter of time before this focus hits the marketing spend of traditional business, industry and trade. Video implies longer sessions for user engagement, offers the sender an opportunity to tell more complex stories and currently implies a massive opportunity as far as we can tell.” When confronted with the question that we have already heard this story many times before, Cato explained that the market just takes a long time to develop, is costly and that it demands different skills of the end user compared to what is required from someone using images. “Just look at the young generations of today, they have no problems putting together videos to tell stories. They just know how to do it and the tools are already there. They’re not waiting.”
View their new-look pages here
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Watch: Bridgeman Footage – latest showreel
Here is the latest showreel from UK based photo agency Bridgeman Art Library via their recently formed footage platform – Bridgeman Footage
