We offer a comprehensive online experience that allows clients to search, preview, and hand-pick clips directly from our website. We're also a full service archive with a knowledgeable and professional staff, dedicated to helping you find the perfect shot for your production.
Our customers are active in all areas of the media community and include major motion picture studios, advertising agencies, television networks, as well as corporate, multimedia and educational producers.
Helping our clients find the perfect shot, efficiently and economically.
You can rely on WPA for high-quality footage, competitive rates, fast turnaround, and friendly service.
The WPA Film Library is committed to helping you find the shot you need, when you need it. Let WPA Film Library's experienced researchers and project managers guide you to finding the perfect stock footage clip.
The WPA Film Library, founded by independent producers in 1987, began as a repository of archival and contemporary stock footage for documentaries. In 1989, the company merged with the MPI Media Group, one of the country's oldest independent home video labels and the producer of hundreds of documentaries. Since its inception, the WPA Film Library has grown into one of the world's leading footage sources, offering tens of thousands of hours of high-quality vintage and contemporary images, and it has become a leading online stock footage resource.
A particular strength of WPA Film Library is a series of Music Collections covering many genres, such as the classic pre-MTV music television show Hullabaloo. WPA Film Library's Music Collection also features country and western star Willie Nelson's TV library, which includes The Porter Wagoner Show, Pop Goes the Country, and The !!! Beat. WPA exclusively represents the innovative Soul! Series which was recorded in the early 1970s and features music, interviews, and poetry by African American icons like Muhammad Ali, Harry Belafonte, and Stevie Wonder.
A client favorite is the Color Stock Collection from the 1950s which documented Americana lifestyle images in luminous color, along with hundreds of vintage training films, funny video clips, home movies dating back to the 1920s, and classic commercials. Various independent cinematographers contribute gorgeous contemporary footage of nature as well as cultural landmarks on a regular basis.
Recent additions to the WPA Film Library include film footage on the spiritual, ecological, and economic significance of water, footage of Afghanistan, and coverage of late 1980s celebrities on the red carpet.
Much of WPA Film Library's original and first generation digital and analog masters, including 16mm and 35mm film, are maintained on-site. Complete in-house editing services allow us to offer superior quality footage and fast turn-around.