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{{Infobox company
| name = Oddball Film+Video
| location_city = San Francisco
| location_country = US
| industry = Stock footage/media post-production
| services = Stock footage licensing and research services
| founder = Stephen Parr
| website = {{URL|oddballfilms.com}}
}}
'''Oddball Film+Video''' or '''Oddball Films''' is a stock footage company based in [[San Francisco]], California.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2018-03-14|title=Oddball Films On Preserving History, Embracing The Weird, And Its Very Bright Future|url=https://bobcutmag.com/2018/03/14/oddball-film-fashion-story/|access-date=2022-02-19|website=Bob Cut Magazine|language=en-us}}</ref> It was founded in 1984 by Stephen Parr, an archivist, imagemaker and writer. He was the director of Oddball Film+Video until his death in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Andrea James|date=2017-11-04|title=RIP Stephen Parr, Oddball Films' eccentric archivist|url=https://boingboing.net/2017/11/04/rip-stephen-parr-oddball-film.html|access-date=2022-02-19|website=Boing Boing|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Background==
[[File:Oddball Films.jpg|thumb|Part of the interior of the archive. The wall displays part of a "17 Reasons Why" sign that used to be on top of a building in the Mission.<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://missionlocal.org/2013/12/17-reasons-remembered/|title = HISTORY: 17 Reasons Remembered|last = De Brito|first = Deia|date = May 29, 2010|work = Mission Local|access-date = March 20, 2015}}</ref>]]

Oddball Film+Video has provided stock footage for feature films such as ''[[Milk (2008 American film)|Milk]]'', documentaries like ''[[Ballets Russes]]'' and ''[[The Weather Underground (film)|The Weather Underground]]'', television programs like ''[[Mythbusters]]'',<ref name=Ikard>Ikard, Theresa , [http://carnalnation.com/content/25565/5/oddball-films-erotic-eclectic-and-unusual “Oddball Films: Erotic, Eclectic and Unusual”, CarnalNation, September 4, 2009],</ref> websites such as [[Boing Boing]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jardin|first=Xeni|date=2009-05-28|title=BB Video: BIG YANK, a Weird '70s Jeans Ad (Oddball Film)|url=https://boingboing.net/2009/05/28/bb-video-big-yank-a.html|access-date=2022-02-19|website=Boing Boing|language=en-US}}</ref> and web projects around the world. Oddball Film+Video’s holdings consist of over 50,000 archival<ref>{{Cite web|last=McMurtrie|first=John|date=2005-03-16|title=A rare screening reveals the hidden Dr. Seuss|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/A-rare-screening-reveals-the-hidden-Dr-Seuss-2692174.php|access-date=2022-02-19|website=SFGATE|language=en-US}}</ref> and contemporary 35mm, 16mm and HD media elements, many digitized for immediate online distribution.

For several years, Oddball Films hosted weekly public events where it presented rarely-screened genres of cinema, avant-garde films, and ethno-cultural documentaries.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wenus|first=Laura|date=2017-10-27|title=With death of Stephen Parr, SF Mission loses the archivist behind Oddball films|url=http://missionlocal.org/2017/10/with-death-of-stephen-parr-sf-mission-loses-archivist-of-oddball-films/|access-date=2022-02-19|website=Mission Local|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-05-18|title=Oddball Films: San Francisco's Archive for Extraordinary Cinema|url=https://www.7x7.com/oddball-films-san-franciscos-archive-for-the-extraordinary-2407707885.html|access-date=2022-02-19|website=7x7 Bay Area|language=en}}</ref>

==Business==
Oddball’s international client list includes [[ABC News]], [[The American Experience]], [[BBC Television]], [[Canal+]], [[Discovery Channel]], [[MTV]], [[Nokia]], [[NBC Universal]], [[Walt Disney Pictures]] and [[Yahoo]].

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.oddballfilms.com/ Official website]
*[http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com/ Official blog]

[[Category:Film production companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Companies based in San Francisco]]
[[Category:Mission District, San Francisco]]
[[Category:American companies established in 1984]]
[[Category:1984 establishments in California]]
[[Category:Film archives in the United States]]

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