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Thousands at your fingertips: Spring/Summer 2020 Promotion

Are you

  • Working on a project that needs National Archives footage?
  • Wondering when the National Archives will reopen?
  • Tired of paying exorbitant prices for 15-second stock footage clips?
  • Perplexed by signing licensing agreements for footage that resides in the public domain?
  • Looking for free bonus footage?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are in the right place. We have thousands of native scanned high definition film transfers, spanning all the popular National Archives Record Groups, available as 1920×1080/24p ProRes422 files—downloadable for your project. Our customer service team is ready to reply to new requests in a matter of hours.

National Archives Identification Numbers

You provide the National Archives Local ID numbers and we’ll let you know if the titles are available in our collection. Stretch your dollars! An average 15-second “hi-def” clip can cost $120 at stock footage outfits. Here at FFS, you can get an entire 10-minute story for $120!

Follow the Numbers

The FFS collection includes thousands of archival treasures from the National Archives. See a few examples in our store. You’ll need to find the titles you want in the National Archives Online Catalog and record their corresponding Local Identifier Numbers.

Buy 3 get the 4th file free.

When you’re ready to order, send us your final list and we’ll send you an invoice. For every 3 files, you get the 4th file of the same or lesser value free. Offer ends September 15, 2020.

Screener Special
To receive up to 5 free screeners, include the special code provided in our promotion email. Since screeners normally cost $5 each, you can get up to $25 worth of free screeners. Offer ends September 15, 2020.


National Archives Identification Numbers Hunt

To order titles you need to understand the National Archives nomenclature. As one might expect, the holdings are organized into categories or Record Groups. See our Deciphering the NARA Code for an introduction to the categories.

Step One:  Research the National Archives catalog

  • To find titles in the catalog input keywords or titles if you have one in mind. Here’s an example, searching for titles related to the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949. We typed in Berlin Airlift into the search box and hit ENTER.
  • The results include all types of materials: charts, documents, photographs, and moving images. Our results show 63 pages of possibilities! We need to narrow them down to just Moving Images.
Complete results for all materials
  • Look in the left sidebar (column) under Refine by Type of Materials and select Moving Image Items to limit your search results. Now we have only 5 pages and 87 moving image candidates. It’s time to start checking out titles of interest.
Moving Images Sort
  • Click on a promising title. In our hunt we found Airlift: Working for Humanity on page 2. Having read the description, we want to find out if it is in the FFS Collection. To add it to our list of hopefuls, we’ll need the Local Identifier number.
Airlift: Working for Humanity
  • Find the Local Identifier for each title of interest. In our example, the ID is 330-DVIC-38355. Make sure to include the dashes, spaces or periods exactly as displayed for each title you find.  

    Here’s a closer view.

Close-up view of the Local Identifier 330-DVIC-38355

Step Two: Compile your list of hopefuls and send it to us.

  • Once you have found Local ID numbers of interest, email the list to us at promo@filmfileshop.com. We’ll search the FFS database and let you know what we find within hours. Please submit at least 5 Local ID numbers. We are not able to search for less than 5 Local ID numbers at a time. We cannot perform keyword searches. You must know the Local ID number. Including the title along with the ID number is helpful as a cross reference.
  • To receive up to 5 free screeners, include the special code provided in our promotion email. Since screeners normally cost $5 each, you can get up to $25 worth of free screeners.

Step Three: Order and receive the clips

  • When you are ready to order, send us your final list and we’ll send you an invoice out of our Paypal account. For every 3 files, you get the 4th file of the same or lesser value free.
  • Once the invoice is paid and the files have been uploaded you will receive an email with the download links to your high definition 1920×1080/24p ProRes422 files.
  • As with all our online sales, sales are final. Please see our Terms and Conditions.

Download the PDF version of the above “tutorial” with a sample list

Start your hunt today!

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National Archives Closed Facilities Announcement

As a public health precaution, due to COVID-19, the following changes are effective close of business Friday, March 13:

  • All National Archives research rooms nationwide, including those at Presidential Libraries, will be closed to the public until further notice. 
  • All museums, including those at Presidential Libraries, will be closed to the public until further notice.
  • All public events in National Archives facilities nationwide are cancelled until further notice. This includes in-person public programs, tours, school group visits, public meetings, external conferences, and facility rentals. Where possible, we will conduct public events and outreach activities online and through virtual meetings.

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Here at the FilmFileShop we have an extensive inventory of many different record groups from the National Archives collection. All reels are native scanned from film (no upconverts) in 1920×1080 24p, 10 bit uncompressed file format.

If you’re in need of footage and can’t wait for the National Archives to resume its services please send us an email with your Local ID numbers along with the description and we’ll have a look through our database. If the file exists in our collection, we’re happy to fill your request within a few days after an invoice has been paid. Please send all requests to sales@filmfileshop.com. Due to the high request load and low staffing requirement we will NOT answer the phone or call back clients. We are limited to using email only during these very high-volume times. Thank you.

We look forward to serving your stock footage needs.

Respectively,

Paul Mathews

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CITATIONS
National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/coronavirus
Coronavirus image: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM / Public domain