Project footage

Archival footage for projects

Start with the project’s story, then find footage that can help tell it. These independent research selections connect public sources with catalog-matched archive candidates, specific production uses and the gaps still worth investigating.

Prepared by Stockfilm from public sources and catalog research. Each guide includes citations, an update date and practical coverage limits.

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Anniversaries & heritage

Finger Lakes Virtual Museum: heritage stories and regional travel footage

Visit Finger Lakes reported that the Finger Lakes Virtual Museum launched on April 25, 2026, during National Historic Marker Weekend. Its April 28 account connects the digital museum with 79 historic markers across Ontario County. The launch is a completed event in the organization’s reporting; the accompanying scavenger hunt ran through May 25. A heritage film can now introduce the stories and places available to explore, without presenting the launch or that promotion as still upcoming.

7 candidates · 6 sources · 1970s

  • Ontario County
  • Finger Lakes
  • Local history
  • Historic markers
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Film & documentary

Ghirardelli’s 2025 Peppermint Bark return

Founded in San Francisco in 1852, Ghirardelli Chocolate Company announced Peppermint Bark’s seasonal return on November 25, 2025. Stockfilm proposes using that historical announcement to structure a holiday edit around anticipation, gifts and shared dessert. The archival treatment is a contextual proposal; it does not document the product’s earlier history.

14 candidates · 2 sources · 1950s

  • Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
  • Peppermint Bark
  • 2025 seasonal return
  • Ghirardelli Square
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Anniversaries & heritage

Golden Gate University: city context for its 125th anniversary

Golden Gate University dates its formal establishment and first degree-conferring program to 1901, when an evening law school made study available at night. Its earlier roots lie in San Francisco YMCA lectures during the 1850s. That distinction gives a proposed 2026 anniversary film a clear timeline: the university’s 125 years sit within a longer tradition of practical education for working adults.

12 candidates · 3 sources · 1950s, 1960s, 1970s

  • San Francisco
  • Adult education
  • Alumni history
  • City streets
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Film & documentary

Indiana roads: footage for the Interstate System’s 70th anniversary in 2026

Indiana Department of Transportation builds and maintains Indiana’s interstate highways, U.S. routes and state roads. Its institutional history links the present agency, formed in July 1989, to the first state highway contracts awarded in 1919. Stockfilm proposes a road-level account of that public infrastructure, with historical captions separating successive institutions.

20 candidates · 3 sources · 1970s

  • Freedom 250 highway commemoration
  • Eisenhower Interstate System anniversary
  • Indiana highway institutions
  • Road structures and urban approaches
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Places & communities

LifeLoop: community video programming

LifeLoop’s May 19, 2025 announcement introduced AI-enhanced recommendations for iN2L engagement content. Its engagement-system page explains how the LifeLoop–iN2L merger brought the content library into a platform accessible to staff, residents and families through devices and dedicated systems.

14 candidates · 5 sources · 1950s, 1960s

  • LifeLoop and iN2L integration
  • Interest-led senior living activities
  • Group and individual presentation
  • Parade participation and decoration
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Film & documentary

Living St. Louis

Nine PBS’s Living St. Louis has covered the region’s people and places since 2004, with community pride and lifelong learning among its stated purposes. Its July 6, 2026 episode brings together Jefferson Barracks, Welcome Neighbor STL’s refugee driving program and Irven Hammerman’s wartime account.

23 candidates · 5 sources · 1950s, 1960s

  • Living St. Louis
  • Nine PBS
  • regional history
  • public ceremony
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Museums & exhibitions

Museum of Utah

The Museum of Utah places the state’s history in four permanent galleries: Becoming Utah, Connecting Utah, Building Utah and Inspiring Utah. Its North Capitol Building setting and free admission make it a public entry point to stories about migration, community, work and invention. The temporary exhibition The Past is Personal, listed for summer 2026 through spring 2027, adds individual perspectives through the Peoples of Utah Revisited project.

6 candidates · 5 sources · 1950s

  • Utah history
  • Saltair
  • Great Salt Lake recreation
  • Moab roadside architecture
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Places & communities

NADSA: streets, shops and picnics for community video programming

The National Adult Day Services Association represents the adult day services industry, including providers, state associations and other supporting organizations. Its definition places social and health-related services within community life. For a community video program, that makes everyday settings a useful starting point: streets, shop entrances and picnic tables can introduce subjects viewers may choose to discuss, without turning the film into a care assessment.

13 candidates · 3 sources · 1950s, 1960s

  • Adult day services
  • Community life
  • Neighborhoods
  • Shops
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Museums & exhibitions

New York Transit Museum: rail and street footage for its 50th anniversary

The New York Transit Museum began in 1976 as a temporary exhibition proposed by NYC Transit employees for America’s Bicentennial. Its home was a decommissioned 1936 subway station in Brooklyn. The museum’s 50th-anniversary account describes a program of exhibitions, historic train rides and citywide activities during 2026, connecting its institutional history with the wider story of how New York moves. The anniversary belongs to the museum’s 1976 founding; the station and the transport system have their own earlier histories.

12 candidates · 3 sources · 1930s, 1950s, 1970s

  • New York transit
  • Rail travel
  • Subway
  • Street transport
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