Clips and Footage is a friendly and independent supplier of high quality archive film. Our award-winning team work hard with clients to fulfil the most challenging of briefs until that perfect piece of footage is found. All research is free and we can deliver material in all formats under pressing deadlines.



We have over a century of international social and political history, music and entertainment, war and conflict, transport and aviation, vintage TV ads and Americana along with one of the world's biggest collections of classic Hollywood feature film trailers, production shorts and screen tests. Just some of the unique elements of our collection include rare colour film of the Spanish Civil War, colour home movies of the Royal Family and four separate collections showing lifestyles of the aristocracy from the 1920s to the 1950s including the famous Mountbatten Collection.



We are proud to represent both small independent film collectors of rarities alongside some of the most well-respected film collections in the world. These include Lobster Films; a goldmine of fantastic moving images in colour and black and white, many of which have been beautifully restored. As one of the highest quality collections of early cinema up until the 60s, Lobster Films incorporates industry and fashion, slapstick, cartoons and adventure films.



We are also delighted to represent Historic Films with one of the most extensive music performance and entertainment film libraries in the world. With amazing footage of American lifestyles and pop culture, this vast collection includes newsreels, vintage ads, educational / industrial films and thousands of hours of superb performance footage covering all genres from vaudeville to punk.



We also represent the high quality Travel Film Archive which contains archival travelogues along with educational and industrial films from around the globe. The films, many of them in vibrant colour, show the world the way it was between 1900 and 1970.