National Geographic Digital Motion Expands HD Footage Library

NEW YORK, September 21: National
Geographic Digital Motion, the stock footage service of National Geographic
Digital Media, has secured a range of new partnerships and acquisitions that
have expanded its high-definition offerings by more than 170 hours.

National Geographic Digital
Motion will represent, worldwide, the rights to the Bernd Pröschold collection
that includes native HD content of starry sky footage along with aurora
borealis (northern lights) footage. Digital Motion has also acquired all rights
to unique time-lapse sequences of the Milky Way, aurora borealis and celestial
bodies. Digital Motion will also represent the Pawel Achtel collection
worldwide, including more than 70 hours of underwater footage and an assortment
of footage, including the Great Barrier Reef, Antarctica, Raja Ampat Islands,
Lizard Island and Baird Bay collections.

Digital Motion has also
struck a deal to represent material from the BlackLight Films collection within
the U.S, which includes 12 hours of HD imagery of more than 10,000 scenes from
around the world. Digital Motion will also represent, worldwide, the GOE
(Giorgio Oldani Editore) collection that includes 12 hours of HD footage; the
Bob Glusic—Wilderness Video collection, which includes more than 60 hours
of HD footage of nature, wildlife, cities, volcanoes, agriculture, time-lapse
and more; and the J Michael Media collection, which includes 13 hours of HD
material, consisting primarily of nature and cultural footage.

"We're making
significant investments to enhance the quality of our archive and are always
seeking new content in all categories to represent in high definition,"
said Jocelyn Shearer, the VP of video licensing and archive management at
National Geographic Digital Motion. "Along with our award-winning content,
these incredibly rich collections add to the breadth of our library and help us
achieve our goal of providing comprehensive content delivery via our online
digital archive and creating a total footage solution for our clients."