Oddball Film+Video Explained

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

Oddball Film+Video or Oddball Films is a stock footage company based in San Francisco, California.[1] 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.[2]

Background

Oddball Film+Video has provided stock footage for feature films such as Milk, documentaries like Ballets Russes and The Weather Underground, television programs like Mythbusters,[3] websites such as Boing Boing,[4] and web projects around the world. Oddball Film+Video’s holdings consist of over 50,000 archival[5] 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.[6] [7]

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

  1. Web site: 2018-03-14. Oddball Films On Preserving History, Embracing The Weird, And Its Very Bright Future. 2022-02-19. Bob Cut Magazine. en-us.
  2. Web site: Andrea James. 2017-11-04. RIP Stephen Parr, Oddball Films' eccentric archivist. 2022-02-19. Boing Boing. en-US.
  3. Ikard, Theresa, “Oddball Films: Erotic, Eclectic and Unusual”, CarnalNation, September 4, 2009,
  4. Web site: Jardin. Xeni. 2009-05-28. BB Video: BIG YANK, a Weird '70s Jeans Ad (Oddball Film). 2022-02-19. Boing Boing. en-US.
  5. Web site: McMurtrie. John. 2005-03-16. A rare screening reveals the hidden Dr. Seuss. 2022-02-19. SFGATE. en-US.
  6. Web site: Wenus. Laura. 2017-10-27. With death of Stephen Parr, SF Mission loses the archivist behind Oddball films. 2022-02-19. Mission Local. en-US.
  7. Web site: 2017-05-18. Oddball Films: San Francisco's Archive for Extraordinary Cinema. 2022-02-19. 7x7 Bay Area. en.

External links

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Oddball Film+Video".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2025, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.