MONTREAL – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Radio-Canada will join forces to showcase over 2,000 hours of new stock footage on-line.
The footage will include archival material dating back to Radio-Canada’s creation in 1952, including one-of-a-kind footage about Canada and the world from Radio-Canada’s news and public affairs departments, as well as dramas and cultural and variety programming that have played a key role in reflecting and defining French-Canadian and Quebec culture for over 60 years.
"When we started NFB Images in 2008, our goal was to use the latest online technology to give filmmakers greater access to the best of Canada’s images, as selected from the NFB’s archives”, said Tom Perlmutter, government film commissioner and NFB chair, in the announcement. “Along the way, we’ve added partner archives and improved the site – but nothing matches the significance of this new partnership. The addition of Radio-Canada’s archives will make NFB Images an even more indispensible destination for film professionals”.
Approximately 500 hours of Radio-Canada footage will be added to NFB Images this Fall, with an additional 1,500 hours of footage scheduled to come in 2011. This new material joins over 1,000 hours of NFB footage already on-line, including almost 200 hours of high definition footage.
