COOL, WEIRD STUFF
Last week’s sound design project utilized royalty-free archival media from Internet Archive, a non-profit library containing video clips, music, stills, and more – all available to the public for free. Included in the archive are fascinating collections of vintage film.
This is a great resource if you need some unusual older footage for a project. Clips for the sound assignment were taken from the collection of drive-in movie ads. The Prelinger Archives (hosted by Internet Archive) is a great place to start randomly browsing ephemeral films if it all seems overwhelming. You can find short or feature-length silent films, educational films, home movies, war propaganda, newsreels, and just about everything in between.
Here’s a music video by Winston Hacking, created using footage from the Archive.