Framepool is a
stock footage agency owned by Nimia as of June 2020, based in
Seattle, Washington with representation in the United Kingdom, Spain, Japan, and Australia. It is a supplier of stock video footage for business and consumers with more than 3000 hours of stock film footage available online and even more available offline.
Beside stock footage libraries that only offer royalty-free stock footage Framepool offers direct only licensing and download of rights-managed stock footage, which only few other comparable stock footage libraries offer. Downloading of the stock footage can be customized which also is only offered by few other stock footage libraries.
Additionally to the online research Framepool also offers offline research and scanning of old footage as well as full services for rights-clearance and indemnification. Framepool has over 700 contributors including
ORF,
AFP,
WGBH WGBH may refer to:
* WGBH Educational Foundation, based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
** WGBH (FM), a public radio station at Boston, Massachusetts on 89.7 MHz owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation
** WGBH-TV
WGBH-TV (channel 2), ...
,
WLIW21
WLIW (channel 21) is a secondary PBS member television station licensed to Garden City, New York, United States, and serving the New York City television market. It is owned by The WNET Group (formerly known as the Educational Broadcasting C ...
,
NHNZ
NHNZ, formerly Natural History New Zealand, is a New Zealand-based television production house.
It works and co-produces with multiple major global broadcasters: Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Science, A&E Television Networks, Natio ...
,
Radio Canada/CBC and the
National Film Board of Canada.
Framepool also is engaged in scanning and digitalizing footage from the
NARA Archive, mainly old
Newsreel. Framepool is a technology leader within the stock footage market and the first library implementing a visual search capability for stock footage.
Framepool delivered footage for many notable films and TV commercials for example for
Audi. Films Framepool contributed to include for example
Iron Man 3 and
The Men Who Stare at Goats
''The Men Who Stare at Goats'' (2004) is a non-fiction work by Jon Ronson concerning the U.S. Army's exploration of New Age concepts and the potential military applications of the paranormal. The title refers to attempts to kill goats by staring ...
. It is listed among the "best-known" and "prestigious footage companies" together with
Getty Images
Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is an American visual media company and is a supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video and music for business and consumers, with a library of over 477 million assets. It targets three markets— creative ...
,
FootageBank,
CNN ImageSource and
Shutterstock and was called one of the leading footage libraries worldwide.
References
External links
* {{Official website
Companies based in Munich
Companies established in 2001
Film archives in the United States
Stock footage