Oddball Film+Video, the boutique San Francisco stock footage company specializing in offbeat and unusual footage unveiled its new clip-driven search site. The new database can be viewed at: http://oddballfilm.com/
Clip searches are nothing new in the stock footage industry but this time
Oddball (one of the first stock companies to offer web search over 10 years ago) is releasing some of their most eclectic never-before-
“We’re starting up by uploading some of our strongest, quirkiest and highest quality 35mm film elements online”, says Stephen Parr, Director of Oddball. “With HD fast becoming the norm this pristine collection of Magnacolor curiosities from 1930s and 40s will make clients aware that HD (35mm)
The Magnacolor “Weird Science” collection includes over 10 hours of 35mm clips featuring offbeat antics and wacky inventions, silly science, beauty contests all available for online viewing and digital download.
Clips include unique and iconic Americana scenes of the kitchens of tomorrow, the world’s largest camera, automobiles of the future, the first animated signs on New York’s Broadway as well as super strange clips showcasing the birth of plastic surgery, a peach “de-fuzzer”
In addition to their newest HD footage Oddball has also uploaded a massive series of 200 B+W industrial films from the 1950s featuring manufacturing of any conceivable product from carpets to household cleaners to high precision watches to Polaroid instant cameras.
“These clips are classic iconic manufacturing shots and have been used by producers all over the world “ says Parr. “This is the first time they’ve been available for viewing online”.
Oddball also offers in-house research by their experienced team of researchers, historians and tech savvy media specialists for documentaries, high concept commercials and media projects that require more than clips.
With over 45,000 35mm, 16mm, HD and media elements Oddball’s staff can pull, view, transfer and digitize clips for immediate client upload.
Oddball recently provided quirky footage for the Discovery Channel’s popular “Mythbusters”
Search our site for clips at: http://oddballfilm.com/
