If you haven’t seen This is a Generic Brand Video, then you are missing out. It is a marvellous stock footage spoof of advertising clichés. It was made by new Canada-based stock footage library Dissolve. Another of their killer parodies is Emoji Among Us, a David-Attenborough style mockumentary, which even has a voice-over that catches …
We’ve all dreamt of flying above the earth, in a languid perspective that reveals the secrets of our landscapes; which perhaps why the “aerial shot” is one of the most elemental parts of film productions; something that either gives us direct narrative perspective, or allows us to lose any perspective to a fugue state of …
Universal Newsreel showing footage of the launch of a Titan II rocket in 1963 along with images from the unmanned capsule of the first stage being dropped. Beneath the falling debris of the discarded first stage the curvature of the earth is clearly visible: “Through the magic of the camera earthlings take their first ride …
by Julian Jackson When I was at school we always looked forward to chemistry lessons because we could blow things up and set fire to stuff, which was the opposite to the rest of the curriculum, where such activities would have you brought before the headmaster and disciplined or even expelled. Now education is more …
Julian Jackson digs into the UK Market and updates us. Video is starting to become the new essential for stills libraries. Although the two majors have had motion divisions for years, most UK photo-libraries avoided video for a number of reasons: technical complexity, bandwidth and the uncertainties of a new market, compounded by the economic …