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ITN, which owns Fox Movietone; AP Archives; HBO Archives; Framepool; and The Library of Congress, among others. Rotondi finds herself doing more and more research online with The Library of Congress. Some sites are easier to use than others, she says, and many offer QuickTime previews for clients to look at, as opposed to “clunky”VHS tapes with timecode. “It’s great,” she says of digital delivery. “Some people use FTP sites or an HTML link, which is so great for my clients.The network news clients do not do that.You have to get a timecode VHS or DVD.” Network news reels are also more costly, she adds, averaging $150 to $400 for an hour of material. Fortunately, these costs can be credited to the final bill once a client selects their footage. For the film Picasso and Braque Go To The Researcher Rosemary Rotondi finds just the right shots for her clients and helps negotiate a good price. Movies, by Arne Glimcher, Rotondi worked with Lobster Films in Paris and Gaumont Path.“They are very easy to use,” she recalls. For the Charles Ferguson documentary Inside Job, Rotondi provided “additional re- search,” working for eight weeks and sup- porting a lead researcher who had been in- volved on the project for over a year.The film will be released this fall and looks at the golden age of Wall Street.“That was all topi- cal, contemporary, up-to-the-minute net- work news. Probably the furthest we went back [was] to the ‘80s.” Currently, Rotondi is working with film- maker Mark Mori (Building Bombs) on a documentary focusing on the deceased pin- up Bettie Page. She’s also working with film- maker Jim Tushinski, providing research for a feature-length documentary that focuses on Wakefield Poole, one of Broadway’s best dancers back in the 1950s. CREATING A BUSINESS Jessica Berman-Bogdan runs Global Image Works (www.globalimageworks.com) just outside of Manhattan.The company has This StormStock HD clip was shot near Campo, CO, in May. Cinematographer Martin Lisius notes the perfect balance of light and texture, along with the circular rotation in the cloud base above the tornado, making it one of the stock house’s most photogenic tornadoes since the company was founded in 1993. been around for approximately eight years and grew out of Berman-Bogdan’s experi- ence as a researcher. and related service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc. footage@hboarchives.com 1-877-426-1121 hboarchives.com ©2010 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO® 42 Post • July 2010 Her research led to the realization that there was a lot of great footage from talented filmmakers just sitting in vaults. She began tak- ing on representation for different filmmak- ers,and the business of licensing took on a life of its own.Today, Global Image Works repre- sents an array of collections ranging from aerials and destinations to wildlife, travel- ogues, interviews, and many others subjects. “We have built this library from the researcher’s per- spective, which is content dri- ven,” says Berman-Bogdan. “We are not just a stock shot library.We represent various filmmakers, photographers, production companies — their raw footage. You see more the storytelling side and how it was originally shot.You will find your incredible stock shots here, and we do have some things that were shot specifically for stock, but for www.postmagazine.com the most part, we are unique because it has been shot by filmmakers telling stories.” Global conflict is one of the company’s strengths. It represents footage of numerous filmmakers who were embedded in the Gulf War and more recent battles. Footage from 9/11 is another valuable collection, Berman- Bogdan adds, particularly its aerial shots. In addition, the library represents The Soul Train Collection and the Omnibus televi- sion series from the 1950s, one of the first magazine-style television programs. The show would regularly cover a range of sub- jects, including history and entertainment, but its interviews with young stars, such as Eartha Kitt, Les Paul and Jonathan Winters, is where it really shines. Recently, Global Image Works licensed footage to several television programs. Rare underwater alligator footage was licensed to the History Channel program Swamp Peo- ple. National Geographic licensed footage for a Witness Katrina program.The Missis- sippi Blues Trail Museum licensed a variety of footage for welcome centers is has located throughout the state. Nova called on the company for aerial footage of Stonehenge.