DIRECTOR: Eric Davies/Image Nation
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IMAGE
NATION is a comprehensive archive /
research facility, with a global database on hard to find moving and still
images. Serving primarily as a research company, for clients like ABC
Television, FOX Television, NHK, and the Tokyo Broadcasting Service, as well as
Times-Mirror, Deloitte & Tousche, and Warner Music, Image Nation has also
supplied images out of its rapidly growing archive for: Television
Documentaries (A&E's American Justice), Music Videos (Alias Records),
CD-ROMS (Public Shelter)
and Corporate Videos (Philips Media). We can provide complete research for any
type of project, from video to print to new media. Plus our newest addition
makes us authorities on all organized crime subjects. IMAGE
NATION is also a PRODUCTION COMPANY .
Catalog
Overview: MOVING IMAGES
ANIMALS:
Plankton, Sea Star, some animal rights related material
AIRPLANES: Airlines anniversary, see Lindbergh
ATOM BOMB: Various films on using the atom bomb, testing it
BIKE MESSENGERS: Some modern ftg.
BLACK
POWER Radical black movements during
the 60’s
BRAZIL: See South America
BREAD: Archival, and new ftg. of BAGEL making process
CAVE DRAWINGS:
COMING ATTRACTIONS: title
COMMERCIALS: Some Beauty and Pain related commercials
COMMUNICATION: Satellites, see technology.
COMPUTER ANIMATIONS: A growing
catalog of random, cool animations, available immediately for use.
COUNTDOWN LEADERS: and China Girls in the leaders
CUBA: rare sepia ftg. of
pre-Castro cuba, also CASTRO seizing power (American Televison coverage), Cuban
refugees.
Dealey
Plaza and related JFK Assassination
footage
DEWEY: Thomas Dewey, former D.A. of NYC, campaign films, also presidential
race.
DISASTERS: Bridges Collapsing, Floods, Fires, Hurricanes
DIVING: various, stunts and springboard diving, including Olympic (1930's)
EXPLOSIONS
FRANK
SINATRA – ultra rare ftg. of Frank at the 500 club – no sound – but a beautiful
moment in Sinatra’s career
FBI: Several FBI films, including Most Wanted search and Academy ftg.
FISHING: especially in FLORIDA. Also Florida State Agriculture
FREAKS: access to freak resources, and ftg. of Musculoskeletal disorders
GARBAGE: Dumps, and landfills
HITLER: part of WW2 Newsreel collection, 1939-52
HOME MOVIES: Early Italian
American family movies, 1920's, NE, also later COLOR homemovies, and other B/W
stories, incl. Nazi Zeppelin, Cops, Families, etc..
*Access to a huge Home Movie collection.
HOOVER: see FBI. Also President Hoover with a Medicine Ball
KENNEDY: The Election of John F. Kenendy, Assassination of..., rare ftg. of
Kennedy in Miami. Also sources for Oswald ftg. and RARE Kennedy campaign
footage.
LAS VEGAS: Rare ftg. of the BUILDING of Las Vegas. An Image Nation Exclusive!
MAFIA: Access to one of the
largest Mafia based archives in the country, ftg. of Prohibition, rare Senate
Crime Hearings, gangsters,i.e.Al Capone, Frank Costello
Also see SURVEILLANCE (Gotti).
LINDBERGH: complete flight
MIAMI: 1940's through 1960's
MILITARY: WW2, and Korea
NARCOTICS: Two films on Opium and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, also Reefer
Madness.
NEW YORK CITY: Archival, river shots, bridge shots, cityscapes, some modern, includes
RARE Lower East Side and Garment Distric footage
NEWSREEL COLLECTION: 1939-1952, WORLD events, incl. WW2, various elections,
disasters, warfare, sports, experimental jets, etc...Also other early
newsreels.
ORGANIZED CRIME: See above.
PONY EXPRESS: Early silent film, some educational
PROHIBITION: Bottles, barrels, bootleggers, guns, cars, speakeasies
Sinatra – see above – rarest footage of Frank at 500 club
SPORTS:Zale Vs. Graziano (boxing), waterskiing, diving
SOUTH AMERICA: various films looking at different countries
STOCK MARKET CRASH: end of the twenties
SUBWAYS: some modern ftg.
SURVEILLANCE: Footage of Gotti, wise guys, and even a MOB HIT
captured on tape.
TECHNOLOGY: Random footage of satelittes and COMMUNICATIONS, Computer
Animations, early computer experiments, early rocket experiments, sonagrams of
an infant.
The TWENTIES: Coverage of the
entire decade
Collection is always growing...
STILL IMAGES
· Atomic Age:
· Famous Women: Suffragettes, Helen Keller, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhart, etc...
· Famous Criminals: Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, J. Edgar Hoover, Dillinger, Turn of the Century Police Photos
· Mafia: See above
· New York City
· Oddities: Freaks and strangeness, i.e. A hand with Two Thumbs
· Prohibition: See above
OUR COLLECTION IS ALWAYS GROWING, CONTACT IMAGE NATION FOR ALL OF YOUR FOOTAGE and IMAGE NEEDS!
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