Websites for Video and Movies
to use in Education

Free
Internet Archive: Movie Archive "This collection contains movies that the Prelinger Archives has digitized and donated to the Internet Archive. The films focus mainly on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century. This is the first time that most of the films have been available to the public. They are 'open source movies,' available for viewing at no cost and with few restrictions. About 1254 films are now online."

Multimedia Library
There are some cool Quicktime VR movies in here, such as the Roman Forum in 1909.
The site provides a list of the Quicktime movies

Commercial/Educational for fee
Artbeats Digital Film Library  Royalty-free digital stock footage. Sourced from motion-picture film with licensing that allows unlimited use for any purpose including broadcast.

Eyewire "Broadcast quality, royalty-free footage. Digitally mastered from exceptional sources: 16 and 35 mm film, high-end video, or sophisticated computer renderings. Infuse your productions with scenes that stir emotions and connect with audiences, via TV, web, multimedia, and more." Part of Getty.

Footage.net Stock, archive, and news footage network. Search footage trade’s stock, archival and news footage databases all at once.

The Image Bank "The leading source for commercial quality, rights-protected 35mm cinematography -- offering 10,000 hours of footage on a multitude of subjects. Imagebankfilm.com, the most comprehensive footage website in the world, is now your one source for both Energy Film and Image Bank Film." Part of Getty motion.

Second Story-some great examples of what can be done with Flash. Look under Site Contents and check out some of the sites they developed.

Video and Film Stock Shots

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January 27, 2004 11:49 AM