About 3 years ago I was contacted by Mary Riley about having Framepool represent their Oscar winning collections. We were of course floored! With 5 Academy Award nominations and 2 Oscar wins, the Theatrical Short Subject Series were produced from 1935 to 1950 and premiered as one of Paramount Pictures biggest theatrical feature films of the day.
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Autumn – A gift to filmmakers
Autumn is here. The time of the year when nature is bursting with magical colors. The sun is shinning in a completely different angle through the leaves allowing for many possibilities to capture the beautiful images and we have done just that in our Autumn Showreel. Of course our stock footage online-shop offers a variety of other fall themes.
Bleu, Blanc, Rouge – Vive la France!
Maybe you already got an idea of the fact that there is something special about this video we made for Bastille Day, the French National Day. We used the colors from the French Flag as a theme for the video. To find the right shots to create this video we used our color search we added to our shop several months ago. This made it a lot easier to find the best shots with the colors we wanted to have in our clip. This is just one example where the color search supports the keyword search. It can help in many other scenarios where you search for shots that contain a certain color. Just try it yourself.
Time to Upload!
The Internet was designed to be a place for information to be exchanged. We have improved our stock footage online store with several new features in order to embrace this intention.
Brazilian enthusiasm for soccer captured with the ARRI AMIRA
Framepool is proud to offer some of the newest and best shots from Brazil, filmed with the recently released ARRI AMIRA.
The FIFA World Cup in Brazil will be starting soon. This event inspired documentary filmmaker Jens Hoffmann to create a documentary about young Brazilian soccer player. He started this project, called Mata Mata (all or nothing), three years ago. He began his work using the ARRI ALEXA, because the dynamic range was very important for his project. The great range allowed him to film even in poor or heavily changing lighting conditions. In September 2013, ARRI presented the ARRI AMIRA, a more sophisticated version of the ALEXA, which is specifically designed to meet the needs of documentary filmmakers. During progress of his film project, Jens Hoffmann got the opportunity to try the new AMIRA. He used this camera for shots of children playing soccer in Rio de Janeiro in the district Cidade de Deu (City of God), which became famous by the movie with the same name. The AMIRA was selected for these recordings to capture the action of the football game in slow motion at 200 fps. This shoot was also a crucial test for the AMIRA. The action-packed scenes, at around 40° C with a lot of dust and dirt, put the camera and the camera man to the test. The complete interview with the filmmaker can be found at ARRI News.
Some of the fantastic results of this video shot are already available for licensing at framepool. Even if the footage is not online at our website yet, you can license them with support of our sales staff.
The real Monuments Men at Work: Berchtesgaden July 1945
This newsreel footage produced in Germany by the US Group Control Council (USGCC) in August 1945 shows the loading of looted art in Berchtesgaden and Neuschwanstein Castle.
In June 1945 the Munich Central Collecting Point was opened in the former Nazi Party Headquarters close to the Königsplatz downtown Munich. Central Collecting Points were established in Munich and Wiesbaden, to house and sort the thousands of works of art being found by Monuments Men in repositories across Southern Germany, and the Central Collecting Point in Munich was designated to primarily hold ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg) loot, Hitler and Goering’s collections, and other masterpieces found in Berchtesgaden, Neuschwanstein and the Altaussee salt mine.
Yummy, yummy
Are you hungry? Then this video is nothing for you. You should at least have a deliciously looking carrot in reach before pressing the “play” button. ‘Cause this video is made by real gourmets. Foods are shown in their most appetizing perspective: vegetables or meat, milk or wine, herbs or honey – everything so fresh and juicy, creamy and crunchy, luscious and mouth-watering that you will hardly stand not taking a bite of your carrot. It’s already too late? Then please go on – bon appétit!
BTW: Even we are slow food fans, our footage is being delivered so fast that working on your project will become a pure relish.
Winter Olympics, 50 Years ago…
Only a few more days until the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. Some of our colleagues (real fans…) are already watching archive videos of ski and bobsled races to get trained for the upcoming spectacle. Even it might be thrilling for only very few people to study vast amounts of ice skater movements, we thought that the following video is really diverting – it covers a US reportage of the Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, exactly 50 years ago.
Let’s wait and see if Sochi can compete with Innsbruck in terms of new sports, tourist attractions and elegant winter fashion 😉
The “new” New York
It’s not a really rewarding task to write a blog post about New York. Where to start, where to end? This megapolis offers so much fascination, diversity, variety and adventures – impossible to write about all this in just a few words. Better let the most populous city in the United States speak for itself – enjoy our Cineflex aerials!
Oh yes, this video material is pretty new. Who says that a stock footage collection doesn’t keep up with the times? As soon as the construction work on the One World Trade Center will be finished, our filmmakers will be there again. And maybe we will write a blog post about that, let’s see…
In the meantime, how about discovering New York’s multiple facets by a journey through our footage special? And if you really should prefer facts and figures, Wikipedia has it all…
John F. Kennedy – a Tribute
One my first political memories at the age of 8 years relates to John F. Kennedy. Berlin and Dallas 1963. A heroe that died and remained a legend. Forever young. We want to pay tribute to President John F. Kennedy with this video made from our archive.
HD archival clips about the life and presidency of John F. Kennedy
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