Comments on: NASA public domain stock footage?

Question: NASA public domain stock footage?

muscat — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:04:50 -0800

Wikipedia says: "One of the largest producers of public domain stock footage is the United States government. All videos produced by the United States military, NASA, and other agencies are available for use as stock footage." Where?

Looking for flight towers, mission control, jet fighters...

By: wondermouse

wondermouse — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:11:52 -0800

A Google search for NASA "stock footage" brought up seemingly promising results. Were these not what you were looking for?

By: Kronoss

Kronoss — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:14:52 -0800

Here. Really cool stuff can be found, if you're up for some digging.

By: Kronoss

Kronoss — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:17:46 -0800

Oh, sorry, those are all photos. If you're looking for videos, go here.

By: ctmf

ctmf — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:18:17 -0800

Navy.mil has some large photos and a search feature.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:18:54 -0800

The Library of Congress has some information. They point at the Archival Research Catalog as one starting point.

For those jet fighters, try the DoD Imagery portal.

By: ctmf

ctmf — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:20:48 -0800

Duh. I thought photos as well. It also has video.

By: ethel

ethel — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:08:13 -0800

dhartung's got it - NARA's site has what you're looking for:
How to Order Reproductions of Motion Pictures, Sound Recordings, and Videotapes from the National Archives in College Park, MD

From this site:
Regardless of the media or format involved, researchers interested in ordering reproductions will need complete item-level citations. [...]

Such citations can sometimes be found in descriptions in the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). However, ARC does not cover all Motion Picture, Sound, and Video unit holdings, and many of the descriptions that are included do not reach the reel level.

For those items not described in ARC, citations are obtained through:
on-site work in the Motion Picture Research Room
inquiries to Motion Picture Reference staff [...]

By: muscat

muscat — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:44:11 -0800

Alright! Thanks, MetaFilter!

By: brownpau

brownpau — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:18:09 -0800

site:nasa.gov inurl:mpg

By: :-)

:-) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:07:59 -0800

http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/

By: mbrubeck

mbrubeck — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:27:41 -0800

The National Archives also has DVDs on Amazon.com.

By: refractal

refractal — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:00:59 -0800

this wikipedia page is a great compilation of public domain links, though mostly for still images