archival footage
Preserved film clips
Archival footage is recorded film or video from the past, preserved and retrieved for use in documentaries, news reports, or historical productions.
The term emphasizes that the material comes from an archive rather than being newly shot: The documentary mixed interviews with archival footage of the 1960s protests.
Also called archive footage or stock footage.
- film archivesCollections of preserved cinema
- film vaultSecure cinematic archive
- newsreelShort theatrical news film
- film reelsCylinders holding motion pictures
- documentaryFactual film about reality
interviews · historical societies · news broadcasts · copyright law · flickering · deterioration · celluloid · outtakes · government records · historical record · educational videos · time capsule · black and white · preservation · licensing agreements · home movies · vintage advertisements · cinematography
- videosvideos, clip, clips, video clip, films
- show businessactors, actresses, directors, producers, entertainers
- footage
- franchisesfranchise, Star Wars, franchising, franchises, franchisor
- historical imageshistorical portraits, old photos, black and white, sepia photos, vintage prints
- historical mediadocumentary, newsreel, vintage radio, silent film, propaganda film
archival footagereenactment
Staged reproduction of events
dramatic reenactment · dramatic recreation · recreation · dramatization · reconstruction