Stockfilm Research

Data on what survives, what people look for, and what gets licensed.

Stockfilm digitizes and licenses twentieth-century home movies. That work produces data almost nobody else has: a measured picture of the surviving amateur film record, the searches storytellers run against it, and the footage that actually earns licenses. This section publishes that data as versioned, citeable research with downloadable aggregates and a public methodology.

Flagship publication

The Stockfilm Visual Memory Index

Edition 2026Version 1.0Published 2026-07-15Report ID stockfilm-vmi-2026-v1.0

Four questions, answered from primary data: what survives in the archive, what filmmakers and researchers try to find, where demand exceeds the surviving visual record, and what kinds of historical footage get licensed. Every figure ships with its underlying aggregate data, an embed, and a stable citation.

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How Stockfilm Research publishes

Every release is an immutable snapshot with an edition, a version, a publication date, and a persistent report identifier. Corrections produce a new version and a change-log entry, never a silent edit.
Aggregates only. Raw search queries, customer identities, and transaction records are never published, and cells below the minimum publishable size are suppressed.
Definitions are versioned. Each metric names its population, its query version, and its as-of date, consistent with Archive Integrity.