Stock Footage Library, Researchers,   & Consulting Licensing: TimeSteps Stock Footage Library licenses over 3000 titles, spanning over 60 years of world history. The collection includes newsreels, industrials, and educational films, along with silent films and entertainment shorts from 1895-1960. From the earliest footage of the immigrants at Ellis Island, through the World Wars and the Great Depression, right up to the "life of Riley" lisfestyles of the 1950s, TimeSteps provides vintage black and white film footage on most videotape formats. Research: Can't find a specific shot? Stock Footage Research is also available on a per diem basis. We conduct contemporary and historical subject searches in libraries worldwide and can negotiate rates for you. Media Asset Consulting including Video and Film Library Organization: Start a new library from scratch or re-organize an existing collection. Services include: evaluation of commercial databases, including digital asset management solutions, with recommendations for purchase, determination of metadata fields, hardware recommendations, storage space evaluation, creation of library policies and procedures, and personnel searches to find full or part-time librarians. Clients include AT&T, American Express, and Lucent Technologies.