CCAD Packard Library: Film & Video: Media

Streaming Film

Beachfront B-Roll
Download unique HD stock video footage and animated backgrounds for any production purpose. All clips in the library are completely free to use and are a simple "right click save" to download.
British Film Insitute
European Film Gateway
FedFlix
Films produced by the U.S. government online, available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever.
Internet Archive (archive.org)
A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.
Kanopy
Kanopy is a streaming video platform with more than 8,000 films from a variety of important collections *Please note that we pay a fee for every video watched.
Library of Congress: National Screening Room
Hundreds of films and related items on American history and culture, including early films and animation.
National Film Board of Canada
View hundreds of Canadian films online for free!
Prelinger Archives
Over 2000 films including stock footage, old commercials, and other materials. They are freely available for download and reuse under the Creative Commons license.
SkinsPlex
Provides free unlimited access to movies and new media by Native Americans, including SkinsPlex original programming, movies, documentaries, shorts, animation and more. Every month SkinsPlex adds ten new titles from Indigenous filmmakers. Registration required.
UbuWeb
A free online resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider art. Includes films, mp3s, and academic papers available for noncommercial and educational use.
Vimeo
YouTube

Music & Sound Effects

APM Music
Downloadable music and sound effects. To download materials, users must register for an account using their CCAD email address at www.apmmusic.com/user/register. The account registration will then be approved by APM staff. Any faculty, staff, or students experiencing issues with registration approval can email the APM representative directly at mgoodin@apmmusic.com or contact library staff.

NASA on SoundCloud
Need the sound of a rocket taking off? How about the sound of Sputnik orbiting the earth? Want a recording of Neil Armstrong's famous Moon landing comments? Get them from the source - NASA!
FreeSound
Free sound files.
Wilhelm Scream Sample
You can't make a movie without a Wilhelm Scream! The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums.
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Actor-singer Sheb Wooley is considered to be the most likely voice actor for the scream, having appeared on a memo as a voice extra for the film. In "The Charge at Feather River" (1953), the scream is heard when a soldier named Pvt. Wilhelm (played by Ralph Brooke) gets shot in the leg by an arrow. (Source: Wikipedia/Hollywood Lost and Found)

Still Image Websites

Library of Congress Digital Collections
Digitized historical documents, photographs, media, books, and other resources from the Library of Congress.
Calisphere
University of California's free public gateway to digitized items including photographs, documents, political cartoons, and other unique cultural artifacts.
Creative Commons Search
Searches several sources of Creative Commons media at once, including Flickr, Google, Yahoo, and Wikimedia Commons.
Digital Public Library of America
The DPLA is a discovery tool for public domain content held by the nation's archives, libraries, & museums.
George Eastman House Photography Collection
One of most comprehensive photography collections in the world.
FilmGrab
A repository of film stills. Search by title, category, director, or designers.
LIFE Magazine Pictures
Thousands of iconic images from the 20th century from Time, LIFE and other Time Inc. publications.
NASA Photo Gallery
Space! The final frontier!
NOAA Photo Library
Images of weather and natural phenomena from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NYPL Digital Gallery
Free access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, & photographs.
Public Domain Image Resources
A list of links from Wikimedia Commons.
U.S. Geological Survey Images
UCLA Library Digital Collections
Thousands of images, texts, and sound recordings from UCLA Library collections, including the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive.
USDA Plant Image Gallery
40,000+ images of plants!
Wellcome Images
Images from medical and social history, anatomy, contemporary healthcare, and biomedical science.
Wikimedia Commons
A database of over 25 million freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
World Digital Library
Free of charge primary source materials from countries and cultures around the world.