Dynamic and compelling footage of the world’s cultures and surrounding environments is readily available to producers and filmmakers around the globe as Getty Images, the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, is now distributing WGBH Educational Foundation’s extensive library of High Definition footage.
WGBH Educational Foundation expands Getty Images’ Image Bank Film collection by offering high definition footage from award-winning primetime public television programming such as Nova, Nova Science Now, Frontline and American Experience, and limited series such as World in the Balance, Africans in America, and much more.
Footage from WGBH found on gettyimages.com offers producers, filmmakers and global agency, corporate and entertainment customers a diverse selection of hard-to-access locations in India, Iraq, Somali and Mogadishu, as well as bringing a unique perspective to global issues such as the environment, alternative energy and renewable resources.
“We are delighted to be partnering with Getty Images to increase access to WGBH’s unique HD content”, says Alison Smith, who oversees WGBH Stock Sales in her role as Associate Director of the WGBH Media Library & Archives.
Getty Images is dedicated to helping customers bring their ideas to life and experiment with new ways of expression by eliminating creative challenges and lengthy production processes. With the Getty Images footage collections and addition of the WGBH content, Getty Images continues to offer the best possible resources to provide creatives with more possibilities and control over their projects.
About Getty Images
Getty Images is the world’s leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage and multimedia products, as well as a recognized provider of other forms of premium digital content, including music. Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover purchase and manage images and other digital content. Its award-winning photographers and imagery help customers produce inspiring work which appears every day in the world’s most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and Web sites. Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of digital media in communications and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life.
About WGBH
WGBH Boston is America’s preeminent public broadcaster, producing such celebrated national PBS series as Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow, Frontline, Nova, American Experience, Arthur, Curious George and more than a dozen other award-winning primetime, lifestyle and children’s series. WGBH is the leading producer of online content for pbs.orgโone of the most-visited dot-org sites on the Internetโa major producer for public radio and a pioneer in developing educational multimedia and new technologies that make media accessible for people with disabilities. For its efforts, WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors, including Oscars, Emmys, Peabodys and duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards. Visit WGBH on the Web at www.wgbh.org.