Jointly held Second Line Search, Action Sports Adventure, and Hot Shot Cool Cuts, New York, acquired Modern Video Library, one of the largest stock footage libraries in Germany. Modern Video has represented Action Sports Adventure and Hot Shots Cool Cuts libraries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the past 10 years. Also Hot Shots Cool Cuts has entered into an exclusive representation deal with WPIX New York Archive. Available for the first time ever, the WPIX collection dates to the birth of television and covers all of New Yorks noteworthy news, people and events, including fashion, art, politics, culture, sports, scandals and Wall Street….The Image Bank, Dallas, has assembled the Millennium Collection, a library of stock footage that captures the defining moments of the 20th century, including the historical figures and landmark events that marked the past 100 years….Energy Film Library, Los Angeles, has recently licensed stock footage for various medical dramas, such as CBS Chicago Hope and new show L.A. Doctors. Because of a high demand for medical-related images, Energy has gone out on its own to Texas to shoot new medical footage, including the taking-off of a med-evac helicopter and the unloading of a trauma patient. Energys L.A. office also licensed a string of footagea including a shot of the planet earth, Mt. McKinley and a girl in a flower fieldato NBCs Fred Savage vehicle Working; Dallas aerials and a shot of a Chinatown neon sign to CBSs Walker, Texas Ranger starring Chuck Norris; and provided Comedy Centrals animated hit South Park with a classic shot of the Sands Hotel. In the feature realm, Universals Psycho, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche, utilized numerous shots from Energy, including an extreme close-up of a human eye, and Paramounts Star Trek: Insurrection included a shot of a sunrise over hills and trees provided by the company. And in New York, Energy provided numerous shots to Hawk Media, including an eagle in flight and office workers at their desks, for a Lucent Technologies corporate videoA.Action Sports Adventure (ASA), New York, has completed its acquisition of the Oak Creek Film Library, ASAs largest supplier of footage over the past five years. Director/DP Bill Snider will also be shooting 35mm footage exclusively for the ASA library….
