Here at the USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive we have thousands of hours of stock footage available for licensing. This comes not only from the over 80 years worth of student films, educational films but from many different collections shot specifically to be used as stock footage or for documentaries that were never produced. Below you will find a growing collection of downloadable clips you can test out to see if the footage is right for your project. If you don’t see what you are looking for please feel free to contact us at filmrequest@cinema.usc.edu and we will be happy to discuss rates and deliverables with you.
USC Stock Footage – Student Activities from Troy TV (1952)
Reel Call Number – i099682
B/W footage – group in class ; students doing work in class ; Daily trojan editor office ; standing student lawyer in suit debating a point in class ; mock trial in class ; large group of students watching the mock trial ; panel of 4 professors in front of class ; Law Library front doors students entering ; students in Law library ; publications of usc professors sign ; students in class w/ typewriters and Professor in front ; Group of professors conversing ; music student with French horn ; large drum. ;student looking at Abe Lincoln painting ; Pottery class ; students painting in class
USC School of Cinematic Arts Stock Footage Projector 1959
Reel Call Number – i007661
A film called Magic Lantern Show – Keywords: projection room ; projectionist ; demonstration ; Goldberg case ; canister ; film reel ; projector head ; man loading projector ; threading film ; 35mm ; c/u hands ; reels ; sprocket holes ; spinning ; magazine ; closes door ; presses button ; flips switch ; curtains open ; Simplex international projector corporation ; light beam ; dust ; smoke ; smoky ; flickering light ; the end projected on screen ; movie
USC School of Cinematic Arts Stock Footage 1960s & 70s
USC Department of Cinema sign ; Close up of Reality Ends Here graffiti ; University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts ; USC SCA ; old buildings ; campus ; reality ends here ; building entrance ; door ; zoom in ; color ; b&w ; student film set ; sound stage ; quiet when recording light is on sign ; students ; screening room ; movie theater ; film projector light ; screen ; audience leaves ; curtains close ; film reel rolls through building ; hallway ; down stairs ; tilt down ; man opens door ; across parking lot ; editing bay ; moviolas ; splicing ; time-lapse ; sped up footage ; moving pov ; first person perspective ; classrooms ; professors ; pan ; winding film ; instructor ; c/u faces ; teaching
USC STOCK FOOTAGE – 1967 CAMPUS FOOTAGE (67-20)
Reel Call Number – i086725
University of Southern California ; campus ; buildings ; students walking between classes ; fall weather ; woman walking toward camera ; 1960s ; co-eds gathered on steps ; waving ; man on bicycle ; bike ; tree-lined sidewalk ; construction side ; machinery ; claw ; digging foundation ; dumping dirt ; c/u wheels ; mechanics ; Bovard Administration Building ; tower ; pan ; trees ; Von KleinSmid Center ; columns ; high angle view of campus ; Exposition Boulevard ; professors ; bike rack ; carrying books ; zoom out bikes ; Trousdale Parkway ; wearing suit and tie ; globe on Von KleinSmid Center Tower ; up angle shot ; man reading newspaper ; woman on bench ; college students ; 60’s fashion ; Tommy Trojan statue ; zoom in to lamppost ; view through palm trees ; palms ; groups of students ; c/u women’s feet ; view of Bovard from Alumni Park ; rotate around Waite Phillips Hall ; tall building ; dormitory ; dorm building ; Birnkrant Residence Hall ? ; overhangs ; Mudd Hall ; clock tower ; brick buildings ; architecture ; Truth shall make you free ; 360 degree shots ; tilt down building ; interesting shots of balconies ; reflection in water
USC STOCK FOOTAGE – 1970 CAMPUS FOOTAGE
Reel Call Number – i097908
students on campus, male student with book , group of students with bikes , residence halls , male student looking at book , students sitting on steps , – 50’
USC STOCK FOOTAGE – 1970’s CAMPUS FOOTAGE – Hope Special
Reel Call Number – i085599
zoom in on Bovard building ; above shot students walking ; female student sitting on grass ; male student in shorts walking past w/ cyclists ; Students exiting Doheny library ; break with countdown ; aerial view of campus buildings ; students walking and sitting ; USC helpline banner ; more student on campus ; professors at graduation ; VKC with country flags ; Trojan horse running ; 2nd break in footage ; various close ups of students sitting on the grass, studying and talking , playing frisbee; African American students exiting Doheny library ; more close ups of students
USC STOCK FOOTAGE – Commercial 1977
Reel Call Number – i085596
Part of the Towards Century II campaign a commercial mostly made up of still photographs and voice over from 1977
USC School of Cinematic Arts Stock Footage 1980s & 90s
Reel Call Number – i0727623
1980s ; University of Southern California ; USC campus ; School of Cinema Television ; academic buildings ; timelapse construction ; George Lucas Cinema building ; 1982 through 1990 ; day to night ; cranes ; construction site ; structure ; roofing ; palm trees ; elevators ; interior ; empty movie theater ; auditorium ; projection booth ; cameras ; film projectors ; classroom ; storage area ; equipment room ; staircase ; Carson Television Center ; sound stage ; Harold Lloyd Motion Picture Sound Stage ; sliding door opens ; camera moves around space ; first person pov ; point of view ; office ; Norris Cinema Theater entrance ; lobby ; flickering light from screen on audience ; sound board ; Marcia Lucas post-production building ; film editing bay ; students at rewind bench ; moviola ; exterior office doors ; hallway ; monitors ; video rewind ; trim bins ; film editing ; 1/2” video negative cutting ; Steinbeck flatbed ; graphics department ; animation stations ; drawing ; motion picture camera ; walkway ; view down from roof ; students talking at picnic table ; Steven Spielberg Scoring Stage ; overhead lighting ; recording booth ; sound ; video decks ; maintenance office ; old technology ; film reels ; foley studio ; control room ; filmmaking ; film making process ; production ; computer animation lab ; desktop computers ; students at work ; messy desk ; film racks ; stacks ; cans ; spinning camera ; video library ; computer lab ; viewing station ; classical music ; DVDs ; shelves ; cinema complex.
USC School of Cinematic Arts Stock Footage 1985
Reel Call Number – i074765
1980s ; University of Southern California ; USC campus ; School of Cinema Television ; academic buildings ; scaffolding on city street ; construction ; mail truck ; USPS ; United States postal service ; construction workers in cart ; unloading equipment ; 80’s fashion ; high socks ; short shorts ; men pushing black box on wheels ; moving ; cars driving through campus ; 34th street ; police officer on walkie talkie ; radio ; ladder ; palm tree silhouette ; group of women walking ; tour group ; balconies ; truck driving through campus ; athletic facility ; walkways ; man with ladder ; zoom in ; out ; camera exploring the space ; film editing door ; maintenance man ; stairs ; checks locked doors ; tilt down from windows ; bridges ; stone pathway ; exteriors ; brick wall ; camera moves along wall ; Olympic Rings on building ; grassy green area ; tiled roofs ; USC tower ; downtown Los Angeles ; skyline ; day ; smog ; fog ; skyscrapers ; pan ; circles to campus ; helicopter in the sky ; Shrine Auditorium ; high angle down on buildings ; interior sound stage ; giant sliding door ; sound proofed walls ; insulation ; glass viewing panes ; booth.
USC School of Cinematic Arts Stock Footage 2000’s
Reel Call Number –
Modern footage of students working on films at USC.
USC Stock Footage – Civil Engineering 1960’s 2B
Reel Call Number – i083698
housing tract ; pan ; l/s ; c/u various houses ; “ cats ” moving earth for housing ; pan of houses ; new ; being built ; Rollingwood tract ; ditchdigger ; miscellaneous home construction ; pan of new houses in tract ; misc. pans houses ; new ; pads ; terraces ; various stages of construction ; suburban neighborhood ; car drive by ; suburbia ; suburbs ; residential ; parks in driveway ; iris view ; high angle highway ; frontage road ; view over housing development ; smog ; equipment ; foundation work ; workers on a roof ; frame ; site
USC Stock Footage 1950’s TV , Opera, Theatre, Cinema 3
Reel Call Number – i083701
m/s tv television camera ; cameraman ; opera sequence with tv mat b&w ; opera (color) dancing , singing , clowns ; tv camera 2 shots ; Indian student operating mitchell on set in Cinema dept. ; dolly ; c/u lenses on tv camera ; man working with tv kinescope camera ; technology ; filming ; behind the scenes
USC Stock Footage 1950’s Special Classroom’s 11C
Reel Call Number – i083695
exterior bell tower , old school house , tilt down to building ; m/s in front of old school ; ext. ; could be church or big house ; playground shots ; elementary ; 5th grade science class, playing in classroom ; c/u male teacher talking , m/s teacher and two high school students , middle school ; junior high students working at bulletin board , l/s Caldwell’s class from rear , raises hand ; geography ; c/u Gary at front of room , l/s high school class from rear , teacher talking to a boy , jr. high tilt up from drawing to classroom , 2 shots boy and girl , l/s campus at Santa Monica community college , high angle down to students sitting outside ; c/u Dr. Belle and students , high school class from rear ; desks ; classmates ; academics ; teachers
USC Stock footage – 1960’s College Classes 12
Reel Call Number – i084978
1. small discussion glass around table (poly sci) — 15’
2. ls orchestra rehearsing — 40’
3. small group around table — 19’
4. orchestra (as #2) – 30’
5. Astronomy demo with models — 15’
USC Stock Footage 1950’s Campus Activities 13B
Reel Call Number – i083696
USC ; voting on campus ; polling place ; physical education activities ; gym class ; view from under trampoline ; jumping ; bouncing ; flipping ; flips ; boy and girl working on silk screen ; art class ; track star sequence ; at track ; racing ; hurdles ; running ; athletes ; social dance ; dancing ; prom ; homecoming ; streamers ; balloons ; could be high school dance ; c/u feet ; slow dancing ; punch bowl ; refreshments ; USNROTC unit marching ; cadets ; soldiers ; march ; ROTC ; flags ; marching band in a field ; formation ; Trojan band ; football stadium ; school newspaper office ; woman typing ; secretary ; office ; man enters ; boss ; student staff ; typewriter ; extracurriculars
USC Stock footage – Homecoming activities 1960’s 13C
Reel Call Number – i084977
various homecoming activities on the row – 220’
USC Stock footage – Student Lives 13E
Reel Call Number – i085787
1 – uncut sequence, boy working way thru college at gas station, meets girlfriend, talk, etc — 60 feet
2 – uncut sequence, boy & girl meeting for coffee at top of commons, leave in car to go skiing — 90 feet
3 – uncut sequence, girl being counselled, several angles room 10 cinema building — 100 feet
Stock Footage 1960’s USC Trojan Football Rooters 14 Reel 1
Reel Call Number – i080733
rooters walking to football game at coliseum, band marching thru park on way to game , rooters entering stands , various shots of rooting section, yelling screaming, jumping, sitting , frowning, yell leaders going ape and all the wonderful things that go to make the well rounded college student, ant shot people coming in gates, long shot coliseum interior with crowd, cameramen, rooting section & card section, rosebowl, crowds entering from exterior
PLUS 1 extra B/W roll from a party?
Stock Footage USC Campus Buildings 1960’s 15A
Reel Call Number – i080727
general shots sign over student union, architecture sign wisdom is better than weapons of war, medical building downtown, harris hall, front of gym, science building from exposition blvd, student union, university methodist church, foundtain in front of doheny, writing on backs of benches, bridge thru mudd, founders hall, tommy trojan, doheny library, bovard, mudd, hancock
Stock Footage USC Campus Buildings 1960’s 15B
Reel Call Number – i080725
science hall from exposition blvd, tommy trojan, long hot bovard thru trees, student union, fountain, founders hall science, doheny, additional campus added, bovard park, park back of commons university ave at sunset, hancock, mudd tower, alumni park more sunsets
Stock Footage USC Campus Buildings 1960’s 15C
Reel Call Number – i080726
campus from helicopter, doheny library, tommy trojan, alumni park, science building, mudd hall, men’s dorm, engineering, student health center, dentistry building, EVK, nuclear physics lab, library, bovard, science, hancock, zoom in on mudd, football players at airport, campus from exposition blvd, bovard front with tommy trojan, doheny from archway in bovard.
USC Stock Footage 1950’s Campus Footage 16A
Reel Call Number – i083699
USC college campus ; dedication of Troy Stone ; crowd gathered ; speakers ; students ; applause ; clapping ; sheet pulled off to reveal The Trojan Column ; people admire it ; b&w photographs ; stills ; College of Law ; drawings ; early campus ; marching band plays ; handshake ; pose for photographs ; University Ave. and 36th St. ; parade ; fashion show ; parasols ; avenue ; horse drawn carriage ; people in period clothing ; aerial crowd ; high angle down to campus ; band cuts through the crowd ; b&w process plate ; moving pov straight back University Avenue ; dolly shot ; people cross the street ; side ; college Book Store ; left back ; right back.
USC STOCK FOOTAGE – JFK on Campus 1960 16-C
Reel Call Number – i080702
USC School of Cinematic Arts Audio Visual Services 1961 16R
Reel Call Number – i094796
1 – 40′ various shots tearing down Audio Visual services house
2 – 35′ single frame tearing down A/V services house
3 – 120′ Old coke machine leaving Dept and new one coming.
USC Stock Footage – Rufus Von Kleinschmidt 17C
Reel Call Number – i082617
LA 2016 – Birthday September 1955 ; LA 13762 – 10/22/62 United Nations Week ; Marsha Hunt, Ed Roybal & Von Kleinschmidt reply to U.N. critics.