Stock footage

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
תצלומי ארכיון
Name (Latin)
Stock footage
Name (Arabic)
لقطات أرشيفية
Other forms of name
Found footage (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
Library film
Library shots (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
Motion picture stock materials
Stock materials (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
Stock shots (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
Stockshots (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
See Also From tracing topical name
Motion pictures
Television programs
Video recordings
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q3087558
Library of congress: sh2001004107
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Best stock shots [VR], c2000:container (ITN/Reuters stock footage library)
  • Footage, c1997:p. A-3 (According to current industry practice, "stock footage" refers to any piece of film or video photographed by an outside source that is licensed to a producer or director for use in a separate, secondary production. This includes contemporary life-style material, news events, and historical images.)
  • Konigsberg, I. The complete film dict., 1997:p. 155 (found footage: Any film scene that is used in [a] motion picture but has been shot for some other film or for some other purpose.) p. 213 (library shot: A shot or scene already available on film (e.g. stock footage of a parade of soldiers)) p. 392 (stock shot, stock footage: Standard shots of actions events, or settings previously photographed for newsreels, documentaries, or even for feature films and presently stored in a stock footage library or laboratory from which they can be purcheased or rented, frequently by the foot, for insertion in a present film for example, footage of a militery parade or hurricane. Such shots are employed to save on production costs. See found footage and library shot.)
  • Random House(stock footage: film containing stock shots)
  • World directory of stockshot and film production libraries, 1969:intro. (By stock material is meant all those filmed materials divorced from their original use and gathered together in a film production library and broken down for possible inclusion in later complete productions) foreword (motion picture stock materials) p. 65 (stock footage) p. 66 (library film)