Footagevault Press Release October 2010
Footagevault launches its new 'clips for schools' service
as part of a new UK Space Education Office initiative
www.footagevault.com/schools
Footagevault is launching its new clips for schools service – which aims to open up its archive to enrich lesson plans and aid science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum teaching.
The widespread use of video clips in lessons dates back to the days of early video tape in the early 1970s, but with the rise of streaming video delivery through the Internet, since 2005, their use in the classroom has come of age. "There are lots of space footage clips to be found on the web, but unless you know exactly what you are looking for it's often hard to find a relevant clip which you might want to use in a particular lesson" says Footagevault's Founder and Principal Archivist Dr Christopher Riley. "By making this important body of film as searchable as possible we have attempted to make it far more accessible to anyone who is interested in using of it – from film makers to teachers."
Footagevault's archive spans the space flight history of the 20th and early 21st century, and many of the clips in this collection offer teachers the chance to illustrate important science and engineering principles in dramatic and engaging ways.
On our schools home page www.footagevault.com/schools we've suggested six teaching clip examples from our archives, ranging from the classic Apollo 15 'Hammer and Feather' gravity demonstration, performed by mission commander Dave Scott on the Moon in 1971, to a series of less well known physics demonstrations using toys carried into Earth orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985, explains Riley.
You can download all six clips for free from the new Space Education Office web site which will be launched formerly on the 13th October.
"In the coming year we hope to add further curriculum keywords to our own collection at www.footagevault.com to help teachers find even more relevant space flight clips to enhance their lesson plans with" adds Riley.
Schools can subscribe to gain access to the entire Footagevault collection, with unlimited downloads, for just £129/year.
The UK Space Education Office (ESERO-UK) aims to promote the use of space to enhance and support the teaching and learning of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in schools and colleges
throughout the UK. ESERO-UK is funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Department for Education.
For more information on ESERO-UK please visit www.esero.org.uk/about.
To learn more about ESA’s ESERO initiative please visit www.esa.int/esero.
For more information on ESERO-UK please visit www.esero.org.uk/about.
To learn more about ESA’s ESERO initiative please visit www.esa.int/esero.
For more information please contact the Footagevault Press Office on +44 (0)20 3468 8805 or contact us here.
Notes to Editors
Footagevault is a stock photography company, founded in 2006. The company sells royalty-free and rights-managed video footage and audio clips. It currently specialises in the space flight and space exploration. The company has its head quarters in London, England. It's clients include the Discovery Channel, the BBC and Channel 4 Films.
Archive film sourced by Footagevault formed the basis of the 2007 Sundance award winning documentary feature film In the Shadow of the Moon and the spin off Discovery Channel series Moon Machines. Through their work on these projects and as a consultant to the series NASA's Greatest Missions the company has played a key role in the Discovery Channel's legacy project, working to help preserve NASA's film archive.
Footagevault's collection spans some of the greatest human achievements of the 20th century, from Sputnik 1 and Gagarin's Vostok 1 flights to the International Space Station missions, and from the first robotic lunar missions to the most iconic missions to Mars and Saturn. They hold footage of many of NASA's Shuttle and planetary missions from the 1960s to today and early Air Force experiments in human space flight; from Joe Kittinger's famous high altitude parachute jumps to the first manned capsule flights into space. As part of this collection they curate an extensive collection of Earth views filmed from orbit and historic views of how computer technology supporting the missions has changed on the ground during the last 50 years.
Notes to Editors
Footagevault is a stock photography company, founded in 2006. The company sells royalty-free and rights-managed video footage and audio clips. It currently specialises in the space flight and space exploration. The company has its head quarters in London, England. It's clients include the Discovery Channel, the BBC and Channel 4 Films.
Archive film sourced by Footagevault formed the basis of the 2007 Sundance award winning documentary feature film In the Shadow of the Moon and the spin off Discovery Channel series Moon Machines. Through their work on these projects and as a consultant to the series NASA's Greatest Missions the company has played a key role in the Discovery Channel's legacy project, working to help preserve NASA's film archive.
Footagevault's collection spans some of the greatest human achievements of the 20th century, from Sputnik 1 and Gagarin's Vostok 1 flights to the International Space Station missions, and from the first robotic lunar missions to the most iconic missions to Mars and Saturn. They hold footage of many of NASA's Shuttle and planetary missions from the 1960s to today and early Air Force experiments in human space flight; from Joe Kittinger's famous high altitude parachute jumps to the first manned capsule flights into space. As part of this collection they curate an extensive collection of Earth views filmed from orbit and historic views of how computer technology supporting the missions has changed on the ground during the last 50 years.
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