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{{short description|Stock footage library}}
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| name = Producers Library Service
| logo = Producers_Library_Service_company_logo_2019.jpg
| type = [[Private Company|Private]]
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| foundation = 1957
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| location_city = North Hollywood, California
| location_country = USA
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| industry = [[Stock footage]], [[Stock photography]], [[Post-production]]
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| homepage = [http://www.producerslibrary.com/ www.ProducersLibrary.com]
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'''Producers Library Service''' is a provider of [[stock footage]] and photographs for professional film and TV productions.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cartwright |first=Steve R. |date=1996 |title=Pre-Production Planning for Video, Film, and Multimedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8XMqBgAAQBAJ |location=Newton, MA |publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann |page=213 |isbn=0-240-80271-3 |access-date=March 9, 2015}}</ref>

Producers Library is "The longest-established stock film footage company in the US".<ref>{{cite book |last=Upshall |first=Michael |date=2014 |title=Content Licensing: Buying and Selling Digital Resources |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XQ6pAgAAQBAJ |location=Cambridge, UK |publisher=Chandos Publishing |page=11 |isbn= 978-1-84334-333-2 |access-date=March 13, 2015 }}</ref> Since it was founded in 1957 the company has built up a collection of [[16mm]] and [[35mm movie film|35mm]] film, [[high-definition video|high definition]] video footage, and photos, consisting of locations shots from around the world, [[outtakes]] from [[feature films]] and [[TV]], [[newsreels]], classic film trailers, and more. Their [[film archive]] has a special focus in entertainment history including "Hollywood history from 1910, specializing in the golden age of Hollywood."<ref>{{cite book |last=Morgan |first=Jenny |date=1996 |title=The Film Researcher's Handbook: A Guide to Sources in North America, South America, Asia, Austarlasia, and Africa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LhAiAwAAQBAJ |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |page=234 |isbn=978-0-415-15123-8 |access-date=March 9, 2015}}</ref>

The size of the library has grown over the years and now includes "over ten million feet of 35mm and 16mm film and approximately thirty thousand hours of video."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stockfootageonline.com/company_profile.cfm/ID/402 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-03-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402120047/http://www.stockfootageonline.com/company_profile.cfm/ID/402 |archivedate=2015-04-02 }}</ref>

==History==
Producers Library was founded in 1957, when the "librarians at —[[RKO]] and [[MGM]]—decided to form their own company".<ref>{{cite book |last=Slide |first=Anthony |date=1992 |title=Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZIq5-_hu5cC |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company |page=142 |isbn=0-7864-0836-7 |access-date=March 9, 2015}}</ref>

The [[archival footage]] from Producers Library has been used in major [[Hollywood]] [[feature films]] such as the intro to ''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|L.A. Confidential]]'',<ref>{{cite book |last=Dargis |first=Manohla |date=2003 |title=L.A. Confidential |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=3OU_vS0FavgC&q=%22producers+library%22 |location=London |publisher=British Film Institute |page=92 |isbn= 0-85170-944-3 |access-date=March 13, 2015 }}</ref><ref>http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/la-confidential/</ref> where their stock footage shots of [[Los Angeles]] in the 1950s transport the viewer to the time period in which the film takes place. They provided vintage stock footage shots for the [[HBO]] film ''[[Hemingway & Gellhorn]]'',<ref>http://www.studentfilmmakers.com/news/Producers_Library_Stock_Footage.shtml</ref> which the filmmakers used to place actors [[Clive Owen]] and [[Nicole Kidman]] in with the help of a [[green screen]]. Producers Library has also provided stock footage and still photos to other [[television]] and [[film]] productions such as [[documentaries]] on historical figures [[Marlon Brando]], [[Bob Marley]], [[Howard Hughes]], and [[Greta Garbo]].<ref>https://www.imdb.com/company/co0009220/</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=March 2015}}

== Notes ==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|www.producerslibrary.com}}

[[Category:Stock photography]]
[[Category:Film archives in the United States]]
[[Category:Television archives in the United States]]
[[Category:Photo archives in the United States]]
[[Category:Mass media companies established in 1957]]

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