History
Film Archives was founded by Mark Trost and Rick Scheckman, who had been collecting 16mm films as a hobby throughout the 1960s and 1970s, an era before the advent of home VCRs. When Trost was contacted by the producers of the ABC News series Our World with Linda Ellerbee for use of a clip from the 1938 Lone Ranger serial, the company notified other TV producers of their collection. Producers of Geraldo, Inside Edition and The Comedy Channel (precursor to Comedy Central) soon began incorporating clips from the company's collection into their programs.[1] In 1987, Film Archives began representing footage from Cablevision's local all-news channel News 12 Long Island.[2] Stories that originally ran on the channel were soon licensed for use by Dateline NBC, The Oprah Winfrey Show and Extra.
Specialties
FILM Archives Inc. is the one-stop stock footage source, offering the most comprehensive collection of contemporary and vintage images in the industry-- over a century of film, video, and HD images. Our incomparable library includes thousands of hours of newsreels, features, documentaries, commercials, tv shows, home movies and home videos, cartoons, sports, travelogues, and much, much more--viewable and downloadable at the click of a button!