Links to free to download stock footage - where?

[ThoughtVelocity]

Anyone know where to get some free stock footage to play with?

[jonantice]

do you mean like stock market and futures data?

[fingal]

do you mean like stock market and futures data?

I think he means films. You can find photos and movies online which you either pay for, or sometimes they're free. Useful for film producers, website designers.

I think the BBC might have something on their site? I know they are involved in a project to release some of their footage into the public domain.

edit: Sorry ... didn't realise that the BBC stuff isn't free.

[ThoughtVelocity]

I certainly do mean film. Sorry for any unclarity. Yeah, everything I find costs money. While not inherently bad, I just need some stuff to play with to learn on. I was thinking there has to be some national archive somewhere for public domain stuff, but I'll be damned if I can find it. Everything free is streamed and I can't download. Maybe I'm outta luck.

[kkubasik]

video.google.com
www.youtube.com

best I got, most of the content is copyright free, and you can get it in standard formats, even its most of its pretty crappy.

[fingal]

This might be better: haven't really checked it out but it sounds ok: http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/archives/for_download

I think it's what I was thinking about originally.

btw have you tried the DownThemAll Firefox plugin? It increases download times by 600%. Is that a good deal or what?

[Vergil83]

http://www.archive.org/