Watch the book trailer here ↑

StormStock founder and cinematographer Martin Lisius has published a new book titled “The Ultimate Severe Weather Safety Guide,” which is currently available as an e-Book on Kindle and Nook, and in paperback. It is scheduled to be released on iBook, which will feature many dramatic and beautiful storm footage clips captured by Lisius.
“I wrote the book to save lives,” Lisius said. “I used the knowledge I’ve gained from being around severe weather the past 40 years, and shared it as insight for the reader. It’s not just a list of safety tips, but an in-depth explanation of how people can best protect themselves, and their families, from tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning and other hazards.”

• The new book is available now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The iBook will be offered in the Apple iTunes Store in August.
• In addition to the guide, Lisius has rereleased his award-winning documentary “The Chasers of Tornado Alley,” which will be available for download from the iTunes Store next week.

↑ Recently discovered and uploaded – Filming the Hogwarts Express

Hereford, UK based Huntley Film Archives are now listing 52500 films – 5200 of these are digitised.
They say: The rate of uploading is increasing as we uncover previously unknown films in the vault and take on new collections. The range of subjects and dates, depth of holdings and variety of material continues to expand.
Recently discovered and loaded have been clips of:
Tibet in colour in the 1940’s – there is over an hour of this material
Filming the Hogwarts Express
The first black mayor in 1960’s America
Panic buying in U.S. supermarkets during the Cuban Missile Crisis

ITN Source, the footage licensing division of UK news and multimedia content provider ITN will now be directly offering clients Still images from UK photo agency Rex Features to back up news clip requests.
ITN Source say: ‘The partnership has been formed in response to a growing demand from ITN Source’s clients in the Broadcast sector to access Still images for use in archive-based productions.’
As part of the agreement, ITN Source will be creating and supplying over 100,000 ITN stills to the Rex Features collection, covering a whole host of iconic news events captured over the last 60 years.
Andy Williams, Managing Director at ITN Source, says: “When we began looking at the Rex Features Stills archive, we were all struck by the synergies with our footage and the opportunities this would present for our clients in the broadcast sector. When we began getting to know the team at Rex, we discovered that we shared similar values of independent companies that have stood the test of time. The partnership agreement made a lot of sense from a number of angles.”

• Rex Features has over 10 million images that are searchable online as well as a further 15 million images that are kept in its archives. ITN Source has over 2.8 million archive news clips, programmes and film titles, representing almost 500,000 hours of footage dating back to 1896.
• As part of the agreement, ITN Source will be creating and supplying over 100,000 ITN stills to the Rex Features collection, covering a whole host of iconic news events captured over the last 60 years.
• This licensing partnership is currently trialling this in the UK market only.

Highlight Films via their Israel Footage site have added Drone aerial footage of Masada, Ein Gedi and the Dead Sea to their stock footage offering – Watch it above ↑ and License it here