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 When THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART needed retro visions of girls going wild to appropriately skewer the popularity of those often advertised show-it-all videos, which footage company came up with yesteryear's co-eds showing off their bodacious ta-tas?
 When LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN wanted to creatively illustrate the televised colonoscopy of renowned TV newsman Harry Smith without
invading the morning personality's privacy, which archive unearthed just the right vintage "exploratory" footage (left), so viewers could see what was going on own there?
 When SUBWAY SANDWICHES needed a long legged limbo dancer, which stock source helped the fast food chain show just how low a turkey sub could go?
 When producers of COMEDY CENTRAL'S BATTLEBOTS had to demonstrate that Kung Fu isn't just for humans anymore, which image library leapt into the fray to deliver the martial arts "death blow" that action loving 'bots fans craved?
One-Stop Stock Shopping
For over a quarter-century these and scores of other production companies have called regularly on FILM Archives Inc. for its vast variety of moving images on film and tape. A pair of energetic film collectors started the New York based firm in the mid-1980s, amassing an impressive collection and nicknaming their enterprise "The One-Stop Stock Library." Since then, FILM Archives has supplied the nation's top television shows, advertising agencies, documentarians, news organizations and corporate producers worldwide with hard-to-find vintage and contemporary film and video clips in all media formats.
The "FILM" in FILM Archives stands for Fast Images Lotsa Movies, "a name we have grown into naturally over the years, along with our reputation for breadth of imagery and very rapid project turnaround," said Mark Trost, president and founding partner. Each day's numerous requests come from producers on the brink of deadline who needed their footage "yesterday," Trost noted. "And while we can't turn back time, we can deliver the needed image within minutes via digital upload or HD/SD video tape." Clients also can easily search, view, and instantly download thousands of clips from FILM's website--aggregated by topic rather than isolated clip. "Apart from getting a time machine, you just can't get it faster than we can deliver it," said Trost.
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Ultra-Speedy Turnaround
LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON, MYTHBUSTERS, E! TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY, WARNER BROTHERS, THE TRAVEL CHANNEL, FALLON ADVERTISING, MGM, CNN, BBC, RAI, NHK, and scores of other customers know FILM Archives can deliver their footage faster than most suppliers can take an order, added Trost. "Many of our top clients demand ultra-speedy turnaround. We take great pride in fulfilling those requirements."
Of course, it takes more than speed to satisfy this cream of the crop client base. In the media capital of the world, the certainty of knowing FILM Archives actually has the material at hand keeps high-end producers coming back for more.
Today FILM Archives offers clients access to thousands of hours of vintage and contemporary images on virtually every subject, destination, newsmaker, lifestyle, and event, from turn of the 20th century until today. Much of the library is viewable on the website and clean material is instantly uploadable to the client. Special requests for footage not on the site are researched, digitized, and transmitted for client screening usually within 2-3 hours (or often less) following an email or phone inquiry.
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FILM Archives' Ever Expanding Library
The ever expanding library includes educational, government and industrial films; newsreels (from early 20th century through the early 1970s); silent comedies; television programs and commercials; theatrical shorts; exclusive collections of martial arts and drive-in horror movies; breathtaking travel and beauty footage shot by leading cinematographers, major news events including tsunamis, earthquakes, Mideast wars, Tea Party rallies and protests, economic recession and recovery, technology breakthroughs, and everyday activity with people at work and play from Cablevision's award winning News 12 Long Island news service.
Further separating FILM Archives from other stock libraries (which often send clients preassembled subject reels offering little relevance to footage sought, act as resellers for other footage libraries, or leave clients to navigate the vagaries of their complex websites), FILM Archives' expert staff of researchers and film historians customizes each screening reel (deliverable via the web or on video) to precise specifications from proprietary and exclusively licensed collections -- saving customers valuable production time and research dollars.
To compress the often arduous task of viewing and selecting just the right shots for a production, FILM Archives maintains its own digitizing, uploading and film-to-video transfer facilities, enabling clients to view customized reels on desktop, mobile device or DVD within minutes of email, phone or fax request.
Realizing that certain producers have ongoing footage needs (i.e., syndicated TV series, cable documentaries or long-form industrial presentations), FILM Archives also offers significant volume discounts.
"We have been fortunate in cultivating a long, loyal, and expanding list of clients over the years," says Trost. "These talented pros know there are larger, higher profile footage firms out there, but they have discovered that we are the ones consistently delivering exactly the shots they need, exactly when they need it."
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Key Personnel Roster:
FILM Archives Inc.
Vintage Footage & News Video
Mark Trost: President and CEO
Karen Doogan: Vice President Online Operations
Kate Wilkinson: Director of Research
Sarah Feuquay: Associate Director of Research
Tel: 212.696.2616
Fax: 503.210.9927
Email: info@filmarchivesonline.com
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