Public Domain Footage and Documents and They’re All Free!
Public Domain footage and documents supply additional footage and other media to enhance your budget-conscious video? Your government provides free footage, photos, etc. in a gazillion different categories. One little known area at The National Archives—DocsTeach—offers students and teachers and producers access to many one-of-a-kind documents. For example, under “Historical Era” choose: Revolution and the New Nation, Expansion and Reform, Civil War and Reconstruction, the Development of the Industrial U.S., Emergence of Modern America and the Great Depression to find audio/video, charts, graphs, images, photos, maps and written documents.
The Monitor
Fascinating photographs of the Civil War era include this wonderful shot with enlisted men on the deck of the Monitor, ca. early 1860’s. And that’s just a tiny segment of the vast holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, www.archives.gov; and www.docteach.org. For help with the collection of appropriate materials for your project or to discuss original footage, contact CMS: www.creativecms.net.