Footage

The Associated Press has unveiled a new video archive platform to support the full-scale expansion of its stock footage business. The new platform will give new and existing customers improved access to AP’s vast historical archive allowing online downloads and licensing of footage, while offering a range of new specialist…

**Early Bird Registration Discount extended to 7th September! FOCAL International Seminar – The Business of Archives Date: Friday 28th September 2012 Location: Pullman London St. Pancras Hotel, UK Sign up here 3 August 2012 Topics to be discussed: • How can we encourage the libraries, commissioners and producers to buy…

They say: In response to the overwhelming industry concern about preserving today’s motion picture and television content long into the future, Kodak has developed an affordable, innovative color film specifically designed for asset protection. The new KODAK Color Asset Protection Film 2332 is optimized for content owners who originate or…

The Shetland Moving Image Archive Group has been awarded a grant of £25,200 from the (UK) Heritage Lottery Fund. The grant, along with sums raised from film screenings and a raffle, plus a matching sum from LEADER, is for phase one of the Shetland Film Archive development project. The funds…

Hop on the campaign trail with stock footage agency Global ImageWorks for some past political campaigns like Bill and Hillary Clinton featuring dozens of hours with Clinton’s strategic team, including James Carville, Rahm Emanuel, Dee Dee Myers, George Stephanopoulos, and David Wilhelm. View and license the footage here…

Fab footage from the BBC Olympics team – Clive Myrie was given exclusive behind-the-scenes access to find out how not to miss one moment of the action. Here: Filming the Games from every angle Thanks to PAN reader Andy G for the heads up on this one – if you…

above- David Hemly, Adobe´s Technical Sales Manager Pro Video/Audio Products Americas, has created an introduction on how to install and how to use the new plug-in Stock media marketplace Pond5 and Adobe have teamed up to develop a one-of-a-kind plug-in that gives video editors seamless access to the largest collection…

Paris based Photononstop Group have announced the purchase Biosphoto, a leading French stock photo agency specialized in Nature, Garden and Environment photography, whose collection contains 2.5 million photos and 20,000 videos. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. They say: “This acquisition enables us to broaden the Group’s offer…

Eric Trageser Product Manager of Corbis Motion based out of our Los Angeles office presents the basics of shooting Motion for Corbis with your DSLR.…

Watch a tour of the BBC’s TV London Olympics broadcast operations which are housed in a top floor council flat and broadcast from a shed just above on the roof!…. here: Olympics 2012: Inside the BBC’s television studios Thanks to PAN reader Lee for flagging this up – if you…

The BBC have launched a ‘BBC Olympics smartphone app’ available on Android and iPhone, with a shortcut for Blackberry devices. BBC Future Media’s Mobile Platforms team, based alongside us at Mediacity UK in Salford, built the app. The BBC Olympics app is built on the same content as the Olympic…

U.S. based stock footage producer OrlowskiDesigns have posted a 42 month overview of clip sales results through Revostock, Pond5, iStock, and Shutterstock. – So that’s 2009 – 2012 sales performance over the four: They say: I normally don’t analyze my sales information mid-year, but this year, I thought it might…

Footage licensing agency T3Media (was Thought Equity Motion) have announced an agreement with the U.S. Soccer Federation. Under the deal, T3Media will be managing U.S. Soccer’s master-quality video assets and enabling access to the library for footage buyers. The U.S. Soccer Collection, features footage of the National Team’s current star…

Getty Images launched their agency blog in December 2011 (see our article) – they have updated it this morning – above – with a new logo, large photo formats and video features launching directly from the home page gallery. View the new look here Below is how it looked at…

BBC News ran a report this morning online and on-air calling for the public to add memories and information to the historic aerial photo library Aerofilms Collection being digitised by English Heritage photo library. ‘The Aerofilms Collection is being conserved and digitised by English Heritage and the Royal Commissions on…

Independent stock photo library The Bridgeman Art Library has raised the bar in the -history- photo stock arena by launching a ‘Footage Platform’ ahead of it’s main rivals in the UK They say: For the first time creative professionals are able to search footage clips, alongside 500,000 stills, to create…

BBC Worldwide has licensed the live broadcast rights from Royal Ascot to three new broadcasters, Channel Seven Australia, beIN Sport France and Eurosport Asia. This takes the total licensed territories to 91 with live feeds going to CBC Canada, RAI Italy and NHK Japan. Danny O’Toole, Head of Sport at…