Where can I find a 2-5 minutes of aerial POV footage of a plane flying through clouds (as a single shot)? [more inside]
posted by fidgets on Aug 9, 2009 - 6 answers

Where can we get extended TV coverage of Domino Day in the UK? (and fun ideas pertaining to Domino Day) ... [more inside]
posted by Smoosh Faced Lion on May 20, 2009 - 4 answers

Where can I find old foreign film footage? [more inside]
posted by octomato on Apr 23, 2009 - 5 answers

Designing an action research class for teachers and need lots and lots of footage of real classroom activity. [more inside]
posted by yellowcandy on Mar 29, 2009 - 1 answer

I need to find a scene in an old film (preferably really old, like pre-1923) that shows a bunch of stuffy men sitting in an audience, listening intently, as if to a lecture. The only catch -- it has to be set in the late 19th century. Anything pop to mind, oh great collective brain? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by rough on Mar 5, 2009 - 12 answers

What's the artist/title of the video art piece in where the artist takes old public domain movie and slowly scrubs through the footage? I remember seeing a piece about 6 years ago where it's a family scene, and the father is spanking the daughter, and the video artist scrubs the footage back/forth repetitively. I know it's a long shot, and I've seen other artists do the same thing with similar footage (info on these artists is helpful as well.)
posted by itchi23 on Nov 3, 2008 - 4 answers

When calculating a house's square footage, does one include screened-in outdoor porch areas (with unfinished floors and no heating or other amenities)? Does one include separate garages (with no heating or other amenties)? Basements? Also, is there a definitive source I can point to for justifying any inclusions/exclusions re: the above to those who might question? Thanks!
posted by jimmyjimjim on Jul 29, 2008 - 20 answers

I would like to get some video footage from an upcoming snowboarding trip and download it to my computer at a later date. What equipment would be suitable for this? My budget is £100 (~ $200 US) [more inside]
posted by oliverst on Feb 18, 2008 - 4 answers

Where can I find royalty free footage of new year's even in times square? The times square alliance was of no help. Preferably footage that shows the countdown/ball dropping/confetti/people/etc.
posted by ndicecco on Feb 14, 2008 - 3 answers

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? [more inside]
posted by muscat on Feb 9, 2008 - 12 answers

I am looking for holocaust archive footage of the ghettoes - without paying a fortune. shouldn't this be public domain? where? [more inside]
posted by Izzmeister on Nov 22, 2007 - 7 answers

Is older sports footage deliberately made to look old? [more inside]
posted by Rich Smorgasbord on Sep 29, 2007 - 15 answers

I have a project coming up where I will need to capture (digitize) a full 8-10 hours of footage (to be captured on DV tape) and make DVD copies for 3 people by the end of the next day. Ok, so I know how to go from DV to MPEG2 via either Final Cut Pro (v. 5.1.4) or Avid Xpress. What I'm wondering is, is there a way to bypass capturing the footage to DV (then converting to MPEG2) and going straight from the tape to MPEG2 so I can save myself hours of encoding from DV to MPEG2 and then burning discs? [more inside]
posted by eatcake on Aug 21, 2007 - 9 answers

I'd like to sell some HD footage. Are there stock libraries that deal in video? [more inside]
posted by popcassady on Apr 9, 2007 - 4 answers

Where can I find good quality free video footage of the "war on terror" for use as b-roll in a documentary? [more inside]
posted by kookoobirdz on Mar 13, 2007 - 5 answers

What is that alarm-like sound that you hear in the background when the news is showing footage of fires. (This question is not as stupid as it looks... look inside) [more inside]
posted by Thrillhouse on Mar 6, 2007 - 16 answers

I need some old-time footage of San Francisco in the 40s or 50s, and of Shanghai in the 20s. Anyone have any ideas of DVDs I could rent and rip some shots off of? [more inside]
posted by wavejumper on Feb 20, 2007 - 5 answers

Stock Footage Filter: Need trippy, psychedelic imagery (I've already exhausted Prelinger). [more inside]
posted by nathancaswell on Aug 20, 2006 - 11 answers

I'm looking for two freelance camerapeople for a documentary-style shoot in San Francisco... [more inside]
posted by so_necessary on Jul 26, 2006 - 7 answers

How do I obtain archive footage from "Wide World of Sports"? [more inside]
posted by starvingartist on Apr 1, 2006 - 2 answers

I am in the process of creating a DVD of my sketch comedy group's work. This means I have to go through about fifty DV tapes in order to find the ones which have completed sketches rather than footage on them. In addition, many of the tapes are unlabelled. Is there some method or program which can scan a tape quickly and give me an overall impression of what's on it? (I'm thinking via thumbnails, but I presume there are other ways of doing it.)
posted by tweebiscuit on Jul 26, 2004 - 7 answers

TrailerFilter: So I watched Anchorman the other night. Last night, at a different film, I saw the Anchorman trailer. In it, lots of things exciting things happen that don't appear in the film - Hero takes a bullet for Heroine, they have sex on the boss's desk, he tells her that he wants to be King Of Austria and that she sounds like a mental person. What's going on there then?
posted by bonaldi on Jul 23, 2004 - 15 answers