After Effects movie backgrounds

[Zander]

i think your looking for stock footage, and if so, please tell the rest of the world where we can get free footage, i mean the national archives (if your in the u.s.) is free footage, so is anything filmed of the president or the military, doesn’t matter if you record it off cnn, it’s still fare use.

but for portfolio reasons, create your own things, if people see it they assume you did it or were involved.

just what ive learned from experience.

on the same hand since it’s not comercial use, you may beable to umm well “use” with out permission such footage if you can find it, just be careful, it’s a lawsuite hungry world, heck, if i saw my footage getting you a job, id sue…heck ive got college loans

but good luck hopefully some one has someting that will lead you to what you want/need.

-Aaron

[Flashmind]

I am preparing my first demo reel and I have the same dilemma; to what extent is it plagiarizing or a creative endeavor of one

[Mike Clasby]

You might try this:

https://www.archive.org/details/prelinger

While less than 200 of the 1975 “ephemeral” (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films, are color, this is a great place for Public Domain footage.
There is a search engine for individual title. An 8 minute movie is in the 300 MB range, and the highest res are Mpeg2’s, click on Frequently Asked Questions for details. Good stuff.

The first two are the cleanest color.

American Engineer I,II,III

American Look I& II

Roads to Romance – A Chevy Travel series of films with lots of US scenery.

American Thrift
Expansive tribute to the “Woman American,” her thrifty purchasing habits, and the American system of mass production.

Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World’s Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 5) (Part II) – Medicus (P.)
Detailed documentation of the “World of Tomorrow” in beautiful Kodachrome. There are about 20 films in this series.

To Conserve Our Heritage (Part I & II)

Fashion Horizons – Southwestern U.S. travelogue flies around in modern 1930s airplanes, stopping off at Albuquerque and an Arizona dude ranch, all the time focusing on fashions worn by its cargo of aspiring Paramount starlets. Excellent pre-World War II fashion footage in Kodachrome

Freedom Highway (Part I) – A Greyhound bus transports us through the landscape of American mythology.

Animation (there are several more)
Ride for Cinderella – Handy (Jam) Organization
Cinderella relies on a Chevrolet to carry her home by midnight through obstacles and storms.

Tomorrow Always Comes (Part II) – Lamont-Clemens, Inc.
Time-travel story promoting rayon lingerie.

Perversion for Profit (Part II) – Anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, linking pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization.

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