Pricing

How we price our material

When you acquire Public Domain material from us it removes the need to worry about the rights you acquire. We charge a one-time buy-out fee, not a per-second rate as other stock footage archives. Once you have bought the physical tape, it is yours to use and re-use forever, wherever, in all media and in any program. You will not need to come back to us to renew a contract or to pay any additional fees.

Our prices compare favorably to the cost of going directly to the source, but without many of the associated research costs and bureaucratic delays; and often, because we are aware of the desire for quality, our master tapes will surpass what can be received directly from the various sources.

To simplify matters for everyone, we have set our pricing structure to parallel the costs at the National Archives in Washington, in that our material is sold on a source-reel basis (which tend to run at 6-11 minutes). For example, if you need one shot or sequence of a particular subject, it does not matter how long that shot is ­ you pay for the one source reel it originates from. If you use several shots from that same reel, it still costs the same.

For ordering information, click Ordering.