SNTV, the joint venture between IMG Media and The Associated Press, has announced it will open a new bureau in Rio de Janeiro.
The sports video news agency will locate its new bureau at AP’s office, as the city readies itself for the 2016 Summer Games, a major event in the country’s sporting history.
Martin Kay, managing director of SNTV, said: “Rio de Janeiro will consistently provide the biggest news stories in sport in the run-up to the next Olympic Games so it is essential that we have a presence on the ground as the stories break. Opening the Rio bureau will make sure we continue providing the unrivalled sports news service that our customers expect.”
Ahead of hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Games in 2016, the city will also welcome the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, as well as the Soccerex Global Convention later this year and the Sportel Rio conference, the international sports programme market for television and new media, in March 2013.

The Rio de Janeiro bureau will be the fourth permanent location SNTV has outside London. Its other offices are in New York, Beijing and Singapore.

Founded in 1996, SNTV has become an indispensable service for more than 400 international broadcasters. In January, the company became the first and only sports news agency to operate in high definition.

BBC FOUR has commissioned a 20-part series called ‘Britain on Film’ that will use archive footage from over 500 Rank Organisation cinema documentary films to give modern audiences a new visual perspective on the 1960s.

ITN Source, the footage licensing division of ITN, is supplying ten hours of archive to BBC Scotland, which is producing the series. The content is entirely sourced from Rank’s ‘Look at Life’ series, which was shown in Odeon and Gaumont cinemas from 1959 until 1969. The vast majority of this footage has never been seen on television before.
The original footage is taken from 35mm colour reels, with ITN Source restoring some content that had deteriorated over time. The series is Executive Produced by David Okuefuna and is commissioned by the Controller of BBC FOUR, Richard Klein.

“After I was approached by ITN Source, who alerted me to the vast spread of the Look at Life series, I realised there was a wealth of content to bring the sixties to life,” said David Okuefuna, Executive Director of Britain on Film. “The films shine a light on every element of the decade, not just the ‘swinging sixties’ stereotype. We hope this series will be a richly enjoyable trip down memory lane for some – and a window on an unfamiliar world for others.”
The scheduling of Britain on Film has yet to be finalised, but the first run of films are expected to appear on BBC FOUR between now and March 2013. Further details will follow in due course.

BBC Worldwide has extended its international TV distribution agreement for the Virgin London Marathon, which was set to expire in 2015, ahead of Sportel Monaco 2012. The deal will see BBC Worldwide distribute coverage of the event for a further three years, up to and including the 2018 event.
The 2012 Virgin London Marathon was licensed to 196 territories, with new licensees transmitting the event for the first time including Central American channel ESPN Sur and pan-Middle Eastern broadcaster OSN. Other licensees set to broadcast the 33rd London Marathon, which takes place on Sunday 21st April 2013, include CCTV-5 in China, SuperSport in South Africa, Globosat in Brazil and Sky Network in New Zealand.
Danny O’Toole, Head of Sport for BBC Worldwide Sales & Distribution, commented, “The Virgin London Marathon is a historic race and an incredible spectacle, attracting the very best male and female international long distance runners year after year. We’re really excited to continue distributing one of our most iconic sporting events, and we hope to secure many more new licensees in the coming months.”

“How many of you think content is more valuable than distribution? How about the other way around?
It’s an age old debate. What’s really the difference? Audience.
One has an audience- the other owns it. You need to be in the audience business and that’s what I’m going to talk about today….”
Watch YouTube’s Vice President and Global Head of Content, Robert Kyncl, deliver the Media Mastermind Keynote at the MIPCOM conference in Cannes, France this week.

ITN Productions is launching a new citizen journalism channel later this year on YouTube as part of YouTube’s original channels initiative. The “Truthloader” channel will showcase the work of citizen journalists from all around the world with original daily programming from amateur eyewitnesses and passionate online campaigners. The citizen journalism will be curated by social media experts and professional journalists at ITN Productions.
Truthloader will start with three distinct strands:
• A daily appointment-to-view presenter-led bulletin rounding up the day’s top citizen journalism from all over the world
• A weekly studio debate conducted over Skype and Google hangout by passionate citizen journalists
• A weekly feature showcasing content and ideas from the world of conspiracy theories
“With our track record in digital content and expertise in groundbreaking citizen journalism, ITN Productions is delighted to be part of YouTube’s original channels content,” said Mark Browning, Managing Director of ITN Productions. “There has been a huge focus on the power of online citizen journalism – from the Japan tsunami to the Arab Spring – but how do viewers know they can trust what they’re watching? With Truthloader, our experts will separate truth from fakery and bring the very best in eyewitness accounts to audiences worldwide.”
You Tube say: “YouTube Original Channels have awesome content from stars of music, TV, film, and sports, plus the world’s most innovative media brands. It’s compelling video designed for the ways people watch (and advertise) today.”

above: Tracks Images sent us this still from the filming of the Beatles filming the Magical Mystery Tour – September 1967

The movie has been remastered and is going to be shown in full for the first time for 30 years.
On BBC Two on Saturday

The Associated Press has unveiled a new video archive platform to support the full-scale expansion of its stock footage business. The new platform will give new and existing customers improved access to AP’s vast historical archive allowing online downloads and licensing of footage, while offering a range of new specialist features to enable customers to search, organize and share research. In addition to supporting the traditional “a la carte” pricing model, the new platform will offer a subscription service.
“AP’s footage revenues have grown steadily in recent years with sales in 2011 growing by 27 percent. The overall market for online video news across Europe and Asia is predicted to grow annually by up to 13 percent and 16 percent, respectively, and AP sees a great opportunity for archive footage within these sectors,” said Alwyn Lindsey, director of AP video archive. “We believe the digital expansion of our footage business will allow us to better service existing customers and better target new market segments. This includes digital publishers who are looking for quick and easy access to richer video footage to engage their audiences.”

**Early Bird Registration Discount extended to 7th September!
FOCAL International Seminar – The Business of Archives
Date: Friday 28th September 2012
Location: Pullman London St. Pancras Hotel, UK
Sign up here

3 August 2012

Topics to be discussed:
• How can we encourage the libraries, commissioners and producers to buy into archive based productions
• Footage & content library business models, new markets, new platforms, new opportunities
• Getting libraries, commissioners and co-producers to buy into archive based productions
• The impact of proposed UK legislation on the Footage & Stills industry, archive based productions and the back-catalogue
Speakers:
• John McVay – Chief Executive, PACT
• Matthew White – Co-Owner OVOW Communications and President, Matthew White & Assoc.
• Jean-Luc Vernhet – Operations Director, Media Content Division, INA
• Paul Maidment – Director, BBC Motion Gallery
• Alwyn Lindsey – Director of International Archives AP
• Roger Felber, British Pathe
Hubert Best – FOCAL International’s legal advisor and Advocate and Partner of ENN
Details:
FOCAL International, fully established as one of the leading voices in the archive industry, continues to address the challenges facing footage and content archives in the present day.
FOCAL International will be holding a one day seminar on the business of archives 28th September 2012 at the Pullman London St Pancras Hotel (formerly Novotel St Pancras), 100 – 110 Euston Road Town, London NW1 2AJ, UK
The FOCAL International Seminar – The Business of Archives

They say: In response to the overwhelming industry concern about preserving today’s motion picture and television content long into the future, Kodak has developed an affordable, innovative color film specifically designed for asset protection. The new KODAK Color Asset Protection Film 2332 is optimized for content owners who originate or finish their productions on digital formats and want to protect their valuable media for the future. The stock offers over a century of dye stability when stored in recommended environments and Kodak’s proprietary ESTAR base guarantees high-quality physical performance.
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The Shetland Moving Image Archive Group has been awarded a grant of £25,200 from the (UK) Heritage Lottery Fund.
The grant, along with sums raised from film screenings and a raffle, plus a matching sum from LEADER, is for phase one of the Shetland Film Archive development project.
The funds will be used to employ a Development Officer to compile a detailed plan and secure funding to establish a film archive in Shetland, as well as to deliver more local film screenings, catalogue old films, train volunteers, develop the website and establish a network of local access points where people can view digitised copies of old films of Shetland. The project hopes to begin the recruitment process in the autumn.

Archivist Brian Smith of Shetland Amenity Trust Archives Service commented “We at the Archives Service are delighted that the Heritage Lottery Fund is supporting this important project. Old films are unique records of people, pass-times, events and activities from our past. It is important that we work to preserve as many of these records as possible, and make them available for viewing and studying now and in the future.”
Colin McLean, Head of Heritage Lottery Fund Scotland, said: “This is an exciting project driven by Shetland’s local residents. It demonstrates how our heritage can be a living part of a community bringing people together to learn from and enjoy their shared identity. We are delighted to be giving this worthwhile venture our full support.”
Vist them here: www.shetlandmovingimage.co.uk
Heritage Lottery Fund

Hop on the campaign trail with stock footage agency Global ImageWorks for some past political campaigns like Bill and Hillary Clinton featuring dozens of hours with Clinton’s strategic team, including James Carville, Rahm Emanuel, Dee Dee Myers, George Stephanopoulos, and David Wilhelm.
View and license the footage here

Fab footage from the BBC Olympics team – Clive Myrie was given exclusive behind-the-scenes access to find out how not to miss one moment of the action.
Here: Filming the Games from every angle

Thanks to PAN reader Andy G for the heads up on this one – if you have spotted something we have missed please email will@photoarchivenews.com