Framepool
| Aktiengesellschaft | |
| Industry | media |
| Genre | Stock footage |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Ulrike Ziegler, Stephan Bleek, Jürgen Wente |
| Headquarters | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
Number of locations | 7 sales divisions |
Area served | worldwide |
| Products | video |
| Services | Rights-managed and royalty-free video |
Number of employees | 45 |
| Subsidiaries | Framepool Inc., Framepool Ltd. |
| Website |
www |
Framepool is a stock footage agency, based in Munich, Germany with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, USA and offices in France, Spain. It is a supplier of stock video footage for business and consumers with more than 3000 hours of stock film footage available online and even more available offline.
Beside stock footage libraries that only offer royalty-free stock footage Framepool offers direct only licensing and download of rights-managed stock footage, which only few other comparable stock footage libraries offer. Downloading of the stock footage can be costumized which also is only offered by few other stock footage libraries.
Additionally to the online research Framepool also offers offline research and scanning of old footage as well as full services for rights-clearance and indemnification. Framepool has over 700 contributors including ORF, AFP,[1] WGBH, WLIW21, NHNZ, Radio Canada and the National Film Board of Canada.
Framepool also is engaged in scanning and digitalizing footage from the NARA Archive, mainly old Newsreel. Framepool is a technology leader within the stock footage market and the first library implementing a visual search capability for stock footage.[2]
Framepool delivered footage for many notable films[3][4][5] and TV commercials for example for Audi.[6] Films Framepool contributed to include for example Iron Man 3[7] and The Men Who Stare at Goats.[8] It is listed among the "best-known" and "prestigious footage companies" together with Getty Images, FootageBank, CNN ImageSource and Shutterstock[9][10] and was called one of the leading footage libraries worldwide.[11]
References
- ↑ At the heart of the news industry: framepool markets footage from afp, FOCAL International, retrieved August 29, 2013
- ↑ Visual video search with Framepool, pixolution, March 31, 2014, retrieved September 16, 2014
- ↑ Framepool (de) at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Framepool (gb) at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Framepool (us) at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ "Objets Troués", PAGE Magazin 13 (9), 2013, pp. 74–77
- ↑ Iron Man 3.
- ↑ The Men Who Stare at Goats.
- ↑ Over three million stock footage screening clips now accessible through footage.net, FOCAL International, retrieved August 29, 2013
- ↑ "Press Room". Footage.net. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
- ↑ "At the heart of the news industry: Framepool markets footage from AFP". www.focalint.org. Retrieved 2016-05-01.