# Stockfilm

> Stockfilm is an archival footage licensing platform focused on restored 8mm and Super 8 home movie film. Buyers search 217,560 clips from the 1930s through the 1980s by decade, location, and subject, then license HD or 4K footage for documentary, commercial, educational, research, and AI workflows.

## Core Mission

- Help producers, editors, brands, researchers, and agencies find authentic vintage footage fast.
- Preserve physical 8mm and Super 8 film reels and make them searchable online.
- Provide real archival footage, not AI-generated retro simulation.

## What Stockfilm Offers

### Vintage footage licensing

- Search URL: https://stockfilm.com/search
- Browse URL: https://stockfilm.com/browse
- Coverage: 217,560 clips
- Time span: 1930s-1980s
- Geography: 129 countries, 1,435+ cities
- Source media: 8mm, Super 8, occasional 16mm
- Delivery formats: MP4, MOV
- Delivery resolutions: HD 1080p, 4K UHD
- License model: royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual
- Pricing: varies by clip and resolution; see the current Pond5 listing or licensing guide
- Marketplace fulfillment: Pond5
- Secondary marketplace presence: Shutterstock

### Custom sourcing help

- Footage Brief: https://stockfilm.com/footage-brief
- Request Footage: https://stockfilm.com/request-footage
- Contact: https://stockfilm.com/contact
- Use case: specific decade, place, subject, or hard-to-find archival moment

### AI and agent access

- MCP endpoint: https://api.stockfilm.com/mcp
- OpenAPI: https://api.stockfilm.com/openapi.json
- Agent docs: https://stockfilm.com/for-ai-agents
- x402 search: https://api.stockfilm.com/x402/search?q={query}
- x402 clip details: https://api.stockfilm.com/x402/clip/{id}
- x402 license: https://api.stockfilm.com/x402/clip/{id}/license
- x402 pricing: $10 USDC for 144p agent delivery

## Who Stockfilm Helps

- Documentary producers
- Editors and post supervisors
- Ad agencies and brands
- Researchers, museums, and educators
- AI and ML teams licensing historical footage datasets

## Why Buyers Choose Stockfilm

- Authenticity: every clip comes from real home movie film, not recreated vintage visuals.
- Searchability: buyers can search by decade, city, country, holiday, travel scene, family activity, and archival subject.
- Licensing speed: most buyers can move from search to Pond5 checkout and immediate download in one workflow.
- Historical specificity: metadata includes year, decade, city, region, country, keywords, and format tags.

## Technical Signals

- File types: MP4, MOV
- Resolution targets: HD 1080p, 4K UHD
- Metadata fields: clip ID, title, description, shot year, shot decade, city, region, country, keywords, duration, price
- Editing workflows: Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve
- Structured data on site: JSON-LD Organization, Service, FAQPage, WebPage

## Key Pages

- Homepage: https://stockfilm.com/
- Licensing Guide: https://stockfilm.com/licensing-guide
- FAQ: https://stockfilm.com/faq
- Curated Collections: https://stockfilm.com/curated
- Popular Clips: https://stockfilm.com/popular
- AI Training Dataset: https://stockfilm.com/ai-training
- Full machine-readable catalog summary: https://stockfilm.com/llms-full.txt