Framepool

Framepool
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH)
Industry media
Genre Stock footage
Fate acquired by RightSmith in June 2017
Predecessor Framepool Aktiengesellschaft
Founded 2001
Founder Ulrike Ziegler, Stephan Bleek, Jürgen Wente
Headquarters Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Number of locations
 6 sales divisions:
Munich
London
Zaragoza
Paris
New York City
Los Angeles
Area served
 worldwide
Key people
Products
Services
Number of employees
 45
Subsidiaries Framepool Inc., Framepool Ltd.
Website www.framepool.com

Framepool is a stock footage agency owned by Rightsmith Limited as of June 2017, based in Munich, Germany with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, United States and offices in France, Spain. It is a supplier of stock video footage for business and consumers with more than 3000 hours of stock film footage available online and even more available offline.

Beside stock footage libraries that only offer royalty-free stock footage Framepool offers direct only licensing and download of rights-managed stock footage, which only few other comparable stock footage libraries offer. Downloading of the stock footage can be customized which also is only offered by few other stock footage libraries.

Additionally to the online research Framepool also offers offline research and scanning of old footage as well as full services for rights-clearance and indemnification. Framepool has over 700 contributors including ORF, AFP,[1] WGBH, WLIW21, NHNZ, Radio Canada/CBC and the National Film Board of Canada.

After the merge with RightSmith, collections that offer video footage from NBC Universal and the US version of The Amazing Race. [2]

Framepool also is engaged in scanning and digitalizing footage from the NARA Archive, mainly old Newsreel. Framepool is a technology leader within the stock footage market and the first library implementing a visual search capability for stock footage.[3]

Framepool delivered footage for many notable films[4][5][6] and TV commercials for example for Audi.[7] Films Framepool contributed to include for example Iron Man 3[8] and The Men Who Stare at Goats.[9] It is listed among the "best-known" and "prestigious footage companies" together with Getty Images, FootageBank, CNN ImageSource and Shutterstock[10][11] and was called one of the leading footage libraries worldwide.[12]

References

  1. ↑ At the heart of the news industry: framepool markets footage from afp, FOCAL International, retrieved August 29, 2013
  2. ↑ Rightsmith & Framepool unite to Become A Stronger Global Brand, Framepool Blog, retrieved January 12, 2018
  3. ↑ Visual video search with Framepool, pixolution, March 31, 2014, retrieved September 16, 2014
  4. ↑ Framepool (de) on IMDbPro (subscription required)
  5. ↑ Framepool (gb) on IMDbPro (subscription required)
  6. ↑ Framepool (us) on IMDbPro (subscription required)
  7. ↑ "Objets Troués", PAGE Magazin, 13 (9), pp. 74–77, 2013
  8. ↑ Iron Man 3.
  9. ↑ The Men Who Stare at Goats.
  10. ↑ Over three million stock footage screening clips now accessible through footage.net, FOCAL International, retrieved August 29, 2013
  11. ↑ "Press Room". Footage.net. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
  12. ↑ "At the heart of the news industry: Framepool markets footage from AFP". www.focalint.org. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
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