Film Archives, Inc.
Film Archives, Inc. or F.I.L.M. Archives (Fast Images Lotsa Movies) is a stock footage company based in New York City.
It is believed to be one of the oldest independent footage companies and has supplied footage to feature films, television, industrial, commercial, and web footage users.
Footage from its library of mostly vintage films has been featured in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and the feature films 42, Argo, Dreamgirls and Watchmen.
History
Film Archives was founded in 1986 by Mark Trost and Rick Scheckman, who had been collecting 16mm films as a hobby throughout the 1960s and 1970s, an era before the advent of home VCRs. When Trost was contacted by the producers of the ABC News series Our World with Linda Ellerbee for use of a clip from the 1938 Lone Ranger serial, the company notified other TV producers of their collection. Producers of Geraldo, Inside Edition and The Comedy Channel (precursor to Comedy Central) soon began incorporating clips from the company’s collection into their programs.[1]
In 1987, Film Archives began representing footage from Cablevision's local all-news channel News 12 Long Island.[2] Stories that originally ran on the channel were soon licensed for use by Dateline NBC, The Oprah Winfrey Show and Extra.
Company's major claim to television fame is being the source of David Letterman's favorite clip, Monkey Washes the Cat, which has since been replaced by a sneezing monkey (not provided by FILM Archives). The clip was featured as the "Moment of Zen" accompanying Jon Stewart's February 10th announcement that he would be retiring from The Daily Show. In addition, they licensed the rare short Mr. B Natural for use in Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K).[3] F.I.L.M. Archives is the only known holder of this film print today, archived as reel #1133B.
According to company records, the top five footage requests are: 1. Elvis Presley 2. Marilyn Monroe 3. John F. Kennedy 4. 1950s suburbia 5. World War II [4]
Select client list
TV Shows:
- American Masters
- Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
- CBS Evening News
- CBS Sunday Morning
- The Colbert Report
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
- The Dr. Oz Show
- Entertainment Tonight
- Fast N' Loud
- Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief
- The Goldbergs
- Good Morning America
- Inside Edition
- Key & Peele
- Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
- Late Show with David Letterman
- Mad Men
- Makers: Women Who Make America
- The Mentalist
- The Middle
- Mythbusters
- Raising Hope
- Saturday Night Live
- Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
- Transparent
- Tyrant
Films:
- 42
- The Age of Adaline
- Argo
- Bridge of Spies
- Bowling for Columbine
- Chapter 27
- Couples Retreat
- Deli Man
- Dreamgirls
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- Foxcatcher
- Geostorm
- Ghost Ship
- Hollywoodland
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Pawn Sacrifice
- San Andreas
- Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
- Tarnation
- Think Like A Man Too
- Watchmen
- What Happened, Miss Simone?
- World War Z
References
- ↑ "FILM Archives Inc. | About Us". Filmarchivesonline.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "FILM Archives Inc. | News 12 Long Island Library". Filmarchivesonline.com. 1986-12-15. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ Prelinger, Rick (January 4, 2001). "An Informal History of Prelinger Archives". Retrieved 2007-05-27.
- ↑ "FILM Archives Inc. | Screening Reels". Filmarchivesonline.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "FILM Archives Inc, hd stock footage". Stockfootageonline.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "FILM Archives [us]". IMDB.com. Retrieved 2013-05-15.