Footagevault
Encyclopedia
Footagevault is a stock photography
company, founded in 2006. The company sells royalty-free
and rights-managed
video footage and audio clips. It currently specialises in the space flight and space exploration. Archive film sourced by Footagevault formed the basis of the 2007 documentary feature film In the Shadow of the Moon
and the spin off Discovery Channel series Moon Machines
. Through their work on these projects and as a consultant to the series NASA's Greatest Missions the company has played a key role in the Discovery Channel’s legacy project, working to help preserve NASA's film archive .
The company is located in London, England.
and grew from an interest he gained in archive film whilst working on the BBC landmark series The Planets'; in the late 1990s when he first spent time working with NASA's film archive at both the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California. Returning to this film archive after leaving the BBC, he started to supply it to other documentary film productions through his first company The Attic Room. Footagevault was formed in 2006, when streaming video was still in its infancy. The searchable web site was launched the following year to coincide with the release of the documentary feature film In the Shadow of the Moon for which the company had sourced and supplied all the NASA archive.
This Apollo flight film collection had been stored under liquid nitrogen at the Johnson Space Center, since its return from the Moon in the early 1970s and only brought out a handful of times, most recently in early 2005 when NASA transferred the films onto High Definition tape. Through Footagevault, In the Shadow of the Moon was the first film production to make use of these new 2005 digital HD transfers.
Since then the company has pioneered the publishing of the collection online in a fully searchable form, making it accessible for the first time in this way to historians, scholars, film makers and journalists.
In an attempt to further share the Apollo film archive Footagevault has also partnered with NASA's Apollo Flight Journal setting the footage in its proper historical context within each mission.
In 2009 Footagevault collaborated with the London Science Museum on a project to project this complete Apollo film archive in public for the first time. 'Apollo raw and uncut' ran through July and August 2009 in the museum's Energy Briefing Room .
and Yuri Gagarin
's Vostok 1
flights to the International Space Station
missions, and from the first robotic lunar missions to the most recent NASA
missions to Mars
and Saturn
. They hold footage of most of NASA’s planetary missions from the 1960s to today and early Air Force experiments in human space flight; from Joe Kittinger’s famous high altitude parachute jumps to the first manned capsule flights into space. As part of this collection they curate an extensive collection of Earth views filmed from orbit and historic views of how computer technology supporting the missions has changed on the ground during the last 50 years.
Stock photography
Stock photography is the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses. It is used to fulfill the needs of creative assignments instead of hiring a photographer. Today, stock images can be presented in searchable online databases. They can be purchased and delivered online...
company, founded in 2006. The company sells royalty-free
Royalty free
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and rights-managed
Rights Managed
Rights Managed, or RM, in photography and the stock photo industry, refers to a copyright license which, if purchased by a user, allows the one time use of the photo as specified by the license. If the user wants to use the photo for other uses an additional license needs to be purchased. RM...
video footage and audio clips. It currently specialises in the space flight and space exploration. Archive film sourced by Footagevault formed the basis of the 2007 documentary feature film In the Shadow of the Moon
In the Shadow of the Moon
In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2006 British documentary film about the United States' manned missions to the Moon. It premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award. In March 2008, it was the first film to win the Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Best Film...
and the spin off Discovery Channel series Moon Machines
Moon Machines
Moon Machines in the US and UK is a Science Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting the engineering challenges of the Apollo Program to land a man on the Moon. It covers everything from the iconic Saturn V to the Command Module, the Lunar Module, the Space Suits,...
. Through their work on these projects and as a consultant to the series NASA's Greatest Missions the company has played a key role in the Discovery Channel’s legacy project, working to help preserve NASA's film archive .
The company is located in London, England.
History
Footagevault was founded by Christopher RileyChristopher Riley
Christopher Riley is a British writer, broadcaster and film maker specialising in the history of science. He has a PhD from Imperial College, University of London where he pioneered the use of digital elevation models in the study of mountain range geomorphology and evolution...
and grew from an interest he gained in archive film whilst working on the BBC landmark series The Planets'; in the late 1990s when he first spent time working with NASA's film archive at both the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California. Returning to this film archive after leaving the BBC, he started to supply it to other documentary film productions through his first company The Attic Room. Footagevault was formed in 2006, when streaming video was still in its infancy. The searchable web site was launched the following year to coincide with the release of the documentary feature film In the Shadow of the Moon for which the company had sourced and supplied all the NASA archive.
This Apollo flight film collection had been stored under liquid nitrogen at the Johnson Space Center, since its return from the Moon in the early 1970s and only brought out a handful of times, most recently in early 2005 when NASA transferred the films onto High Definition tape. Through Footagevault, In the Shadow of the Moon was the first film production to make use of these new 2005 digital HD transfers.
Since then the company has pioneered the publishing of the collection online in a fully searchable form, making it accessible for the first time in this way to historians, scholars, film makers and journalists.
In an attempt to further share the Apollo film archive Footagevault has also partnered with NASA's Apollo Flight Journal setting the footage in its proper historical context within each mission.
In 2009 Footagevault collaborated with the London Science Museum on a project to project this complete Apollo film archive in public for the first time. 'Apollo raw and uncut' ran through July and August 2009 in the museum's Energy Briefing Room .
Collection
Footagevault's collection currently specialises in space flight, spanning the 20th century, from Sputnik 1Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 ) was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth's orbit. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. The unanticipated announcement of Sputnik 1s success precipitated the Sputnik crisis in the United States and ignited the Space...
and Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961....
's Vostok 1
Vostok 1
Vostok 1 was the first spaceflight in the Vostok program and the first human spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA spacecraft was launched on April 12, 1961. The flight took Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union, into space. The flight marked the first time that a human entered outer...
flights to the International Space Station
International Space Station
The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes...
missions, and from the first robotic lunar missions to the most recent NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
missions to Mars
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...
and Saturn
Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn is named after the Roman god Saturn, equated to the Greek Cronus , the Babylonian Ninurta and the Hindu Shani. Saturn's astronomical symbol represents the Roman god's sickle.Saturn,...
. They hold footage of most of NASA’s planetary missions from the 1960s to today and early Air Force experiments in human space flight; from Joe Kittinger’s famous high altitude parachute jumps to the first manned capsule flights into space. As part of this collection they curate an extensive collection of Earth views filmed from orbit and historic views of how computer technology supporting the missions has changed on the ground during the last 50 years.