Framepool

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Framepool
Industry media
Genre Stock footage
PredecessorFramepool Aktiengesellschaft
Founded2001
FounderUlrike Ziegler, Stephan Bleek, Jürgen Wente
Fateacquired by Nimia in June 2020
Headquarters,
United States
Number of locations
6 sales divisions:
Seattle
London
New York City
Tokyo
Sydney
Los Angeles
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Zachary McIntosh (CEO)
Products
Services
Number of employees
45
Parent Nimia
Website www.framepool.com

Framepool is a stock footage agency owned by Nimia as of June 2020, based in Seattle, Washington with representation in the United Kingdom, Spain, Japan, and Australia. 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] [ dead link ] WGBH, WLIW21, NHNZ, Radio Canada/CBC and the National Film Board of Canada.

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. [2] [ dead link ]

Framepool delivered footage for many notable films and TV commercials for example for Audi. [3] [ dead link ] Films Framepool contributed to include for example Iron Man 3 [4] and The Men Who Stare at Goats. [5] It is listed among the "best-known" and "prestigious footage companies" together with Getty Images, FootageBank, CNN ImageSource and Shutterstock [6] [ dead link ] [7] [ dead link ] and was called one of the leading footage libraries worldwide. [1] [ dead link ]

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References

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  2. Visual video search with Framepool, pixolution, March 31, 2014, retrieved September 16, 2014
  3. "Objets Troués", PAGE Magazin, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 74–77, 2013
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