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Journalism & Mass Media Studies: Stock Footage

The Journalism Program teaches students the skills to report, write, edit, produce and design a print and online newspaper with emphasis on the importance of a free and responsible press. Ethics, accuracy and the power of the media are key topics.

Online Audio, Image, & Video Footage

Audio

  • Internet Archive Audio Archive
    Welcome to the Archive's audio and MP3 library. This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.
  • Creative Commons
    Looking for open liscence music, video, writing, code, or other creative works?  Creative Commons has got you covered.  Search for creative commons work through sources like Google and Flickr.  For more information on creative commons see the box to the right.
  • Public Domain Music
    A reference site that assists in the identification of music and songs in the public domain.

Images

  • Creative Commons
    Looking for open liscence music, video, writing, code, or other creative works?  Creative Commons has got you covered.  Search for creative commons work through sources like Google and Flickr.  For more information on creative commons see the box to the right.

 

Videos

  • Link TV
    Link TV broadcasts programs that engage, educate and activate viewers to become involved in the world. These programs provide a unique perspective on international news, current events, and diverse cultures, presenting issues not often covered in the U.S. media.
  • C-SPAN Video Library
    The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and archives all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, research, and archival uses. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987.
  • CNN Video Almanac
    We've collected our best video since the birth of CNN in 1980. Choose a year or topic below to begin a multimedia tour through history.
  • Ted Talks
    TED is best thought of as a global community. It's a community welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. Contains interviews, speeches and TED conferences.
  • Forum Network
    PBS and NPR free video lectures. The Forum Network online library features thousands of lectures by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers, and community leaders, available to citizens of the world for free.
  • Newslook
    Journalists and documentarians comb the web for the best produced visual news stories and analysis of the issues affecting our lives.
  • Frontline
    Since 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television’s flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its debut on PBS as “the last best hope for broadcast documentaries,” FRONTLINE’s stature over 30 seasons is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience.
  • Creative Commons
    Looking for open liscence music, video, writing, code, or other creative works?  Creative Commons has got you covered.  Search for creative commons work through sources like Google and Flickr.  For more information on creative commons see the box to the right.
  • Footage.net
    Footage.net is the world’s largest online aggregator of stock footage databases, providing serious footage researchers with free access to the most comprehensive roster of stock, archival and news footage indexes online. At Footage.net, you can search 30 of the world’s top stock footage archives with one search, find better content and save time.
  • Internet Archive: Moving Images Archive
    Welcome to the Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
  • Archive of American Television
    Archive of American Television has conducted over 700 long-form interviews (over 3000 hours) with the legends of television. These interviews chronicle the birth and growth of American TV History.
  • Internet Archive: FedFlix
    Welcome to FedFlix, Joint Venture NTIS-1832 between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org. Here we feature the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever.
  • Europa Film Treasures
    Welcome to Europa Film Treasures' official blog. For the first time, a web site offers free access to a scheduling of heritage films from the most prestigious European archives and film libraries. Each ticket corresponds to a film. You can respond to the films and web surfers' contributions by posting your comments. Like the web site, the blog exists in five languages. Don't hesitate to take part in the blogs of the other versions.
  • Open Video Project
    The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities

Copyright / Permission / Attribution

If you intend to use material found in the website to the left it is essential to adhere to copyright law.  The copyright tutorial below can help you determine whether your use of intellectual materials is considered, "fair use."  If its not fair use you will have to get permission from the creator to use their materials.  If permission is already given, you will need to provide the proper attribution. 

The Creative Commons can help you find materials that are intended to be (re)used and shared.  Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.  Learn more by watching this video and by reading about proper attribution below.