Footage.net Adds Historic Films Clips

NEW YORK: More than 167,000 preview clips from the Historic Films archive have been added to the Footage.net library.

Footage.net users can screen preview clips from Historic Films’ stock-footage collection, which spans 1895 to 2010. This includes more than 50,000 hours of news, lifestyle, travel, fashion, celebrity, military and cartoon footage. The addition of the Historic Films content brings the total number of clips available through Footage.net to more than 1.8 million.

“With the launch of our new, fully streaming online website, Historic Films is able to offer immediate previews of thousands of hours of archival footage from our stock footage library and ‘priority access’ to thousands more entertainment and musical performance clips for research, screening and downloading,” said Historic Films’ Anthea Carr. “We’ve chosen to offer our users complete documents for viewing rather than preselected individual "clips" as is the standard for many other footage archives, We are excited to partner with Footage.net and expose this footage to the widest possible audience of creative professionals worldwide.”

“Historic Films is one of the world’s most comprehensive online source for licensing stock, musical performance and entertainment footage,” added David Seevers, Footage.net’s chief marketing officer. “They have an amazing collection of libraries, with particular depth in the area of music, entertainment and celebrity footage. Their collections include everything from Elvis Presley’s first ever TV appearances to recent concert performances by Rihanna, Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse. We’re thrilled to be able to make this important collection of incredible archival footage available to our growing, worldwide base of users.”