Oddball Film+Video

Oddball Film+Video or Oddball Films is a stock footage company based in San Francisco, California.[1] It was founded in 1984 by Stephen Parr, an archivist, imagemaker and writer. He was the director of Oddball Film+Video until his death in 2017.[2]

Oddball Film+Video
IndustryStock footage/media post-production
FounderStephen Parr
Headquarters
San Francisco
,
US
ServicesStock footage licensing and research services
Websiteoddballfilms.com

Background

Oddball Film+Video has provided stock footage for feature films such as Milk, documentaries like Ballets Russes and The Weather Underground, television programs like Mythbusters,[3] websites such as Boing Boing[4] and web projects around the world. Oddball Film+Video’s holdings consist of over 50,000 archival[5] and contemporary 35mm, 16mm and HD media elements, many digitized for immediate online distribution.

Business

Oddball’s international client list includes ABC News, The American Experience, BBC Television, Canal+, Discovery Channel, MTV, Nokia, NBC Universal, Walt Disney Pictures and Yahoo.

References
  1. Oddball Films On Preserving History, Embracing The Weird, And Its Very Bright Future —— Bob Cut Mag
  2. RIP Stephen Parr, Oddball Films' eccentric archivist|Boing Boing
  3. Ikard, Theresa , “Oddball Films: Erotic, Eclectic and Unusual”, CarnalNation, September 4, 2009,
  4. BB Video: BIG YANK, a Weird '70s Jeans Ad (Oddball Film), posted by Xeni Jardin, May 28, 2009 7:35 AM,
  5. McMurtrie, John, “A rare screening reveals the hidden Dr.Seuss”, SF Chronicle, March 16th 2005,
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