Penn State University Libraries - Film Archives and Stock Footage

Penn State Archives containing Footage and Images

• Special Collections Library: Penn State University Archives
  
  • Includes paper records, digital records, books, film, video, audio recordings, photographs, architectural plans, maps, scrapbooks and artifacts
    
• Campus Newspapers
  
  • Historical Digital Collegian (1887-1987) [Digital Archive]:
    
    • Digitized page images of the Pennsylvania State University's campus newspaper, The Daily Collegian
      
    • Every issue in this database can be browsed by page, online
      
• Behrend Beacon (1948-1989) [Digital Archive]
  
• Hazelton Collegian (1937-1994) [Digital Archive]
  

Film Footage (Free)

• Library of Congress. American Memory Collections.
  • Motion Picture Collections
  • Motion Picture and Television Reading Room
    
• Internet Archive (non-profit organization)
  • Moving Image Archive
    features a variety of moving-image collections in digital format. Includes fiction and documentary films, advertisements, news footage, television programs, etc
  • Prelinger Archives
    An excellent and eclectic collection of "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, instructional and amateur) films
    
• Open Video Project  Interaction Design Lab (School of Information and Library Science, UNC at Chapel Hill)
  • A repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities
    
• Stock Footage on VHS/DVD: in the Libraries collections
  • Universal Newsreels on DVD
  • ITN/Reuters stock footage library [series]
    • Best Stock Shots #1 and #2
      

Film Footage (Purchase)

• Footage.net
  • Comprehensive stock footage and archival database
    
• WGBH Text Database (WBGH Boston, public television)
  
  • Licenses moving images clips, digital images and text
  • Browse by category or keyword
  • Archive back to 1950's
  • Includes NOVA, Frontline, American Experience and more
    
• Getty Images: Archive Films
  • Some free; most for purchase