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'Available As' - How we can supply your content :

Standard (all) - all of our RM Motion Gallery clips are available in standard definition, and can be supplied in both Pal or NTSC format.

Film backed - these clips are available on film as well as VT. Please contact your local sales representative for further details.

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BBC Motion Gallery brings you easy access to a wide range of unique, high-quality footage. Looking for superb HD? Shots you simply can't find anywhere else? It's all here, sourced from some of the most remarkable collections in the world, ready for you to preview, purchase and download immediately. 
 
We're also your gateway to more than a million hours of content offline, and our team of expert researchers will help you find exactly what you need. This is where inspiration meets possibility. Welcome.
 
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We're your gateway to the best of BBC programming over the last 70 years—over a million hours of motion content.

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The legendary news archive covering every major event and personality of the last 50 years. Exclusively here.

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One of the world's great visual chronicles of a land and its peoples, in stunning HD from China Central Television.

New - Search the entire BBC Archive
The BBC Archive contains 60 years of footage; over a million hours of content, and growing by the day. Now, for the first time ever, we're making this one-of-a-kind resource available to all registered user of BBC Motion Gallery
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January 2009

Special offers valued at up to $579/£329. Now yours free.

Our royalty free footage and HD content continues to be in ever higher demand, and we'd like to say thanks with a couple of special offers.
 
Order any royalty-free clips or disc with a total value $499/£269 or more, and we'll send you our popular, highly-usable RF disc collection of production-ready footage, "Transitions: Streaks and Swish Pans." A substantial $579/£379 value, yours absolutely free. Offer ends 31st of December, 2008.
 
Or place an order for any of our superb high definition clips that totals $1,000/£500 or more, and we'll give you the world: The BBC's acclaimed "Planet Earth" DVD. An $80/£45 value, yours free. Offer ends  31st of December, 2008.

Exclusive: the International Tennis Federation

BBC Motion Gallery now offers exclusive representation of the International Tennis Federation (ITF), adding to the 70,000 hours of sport content we currently offer. Here you will find exclusive footage from the ITF's three major international team competitions;the Davis Cup, Fed Cup and, the Hyundai Hopman Cup.

You can now have direct access to clips of top players in world tennis both past and present, including historic matches played by sporting greats such as Fred Perry, Rene Lacoste, Rod Laver, Arthur Ashe, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Martina Navratilova, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, Roger Federer, Serena and Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova.

NHK Japan

One of the most diverse HD collections in the world. NHK is Japan's famed public broadcaster, reaching almost every household in the country. With 96% of NHK's general TV broadcast in HD, the scope and quality of the material is breathtaking. From Japanese macaques in hot springs and the temples of Kyoto to sweeping shots of earthquake-shattered buildings; from noisy factories of the present day to the tranquility of time-honoured ceremonies.