Where can I get High Quality (AVI/uncompressed) footage of politicians?

PositiveFuture

PositiveFuture

I have an epic intro to prepare. I'll need 40-100 1/2 second clips of politicians that I'll set to music. I can trawl Youtube all day + rip a ton of clips, but it'll all be low quality.

Two questions:

1) Where can I get high quality footage of politicians etc, uncompressed or decent quality if possible?

2) Each shot will be less than a second long, maybe only a few frames, set to very fast music. Do I still need to
clear each and every shot? That'd be a nightmare... Better start early.

An added complication is that half the time I'm behind the Chinese firewall and can''t access many media sites.

OK thanks for your time.
 
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Good idea WV, better than messing around online for hours if there's no decent sites.

I heard something about C-SPAN putting all their archives online. Maybe the BBC will be even better... I suppose it's worth a couple of phone calls if they ended up sending a disc.

It all come down to the quality...
 
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Library of Congress should have lots of that catalogued.

A search in the Digital Collections on http://www.loc.gov/ will get you closer to what you are looking for, then you can limit by media type on the left... if you include video in the search, you'll hit alot more from my brief testing.

You can also look at http://www.archive.org and there's lots of older footage up there.
 
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For that short a period, why not flash photos?
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Graeme,
about half of the intro will consist of photos. But 100 percent photos will make it look stale and unprofessional. And there's still a lot of movement in 10-12 frames. I figure I can get away with about 50/50 footage and photos.
 
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